'Get alongside us', women's experiences of being overweight and pregnant in Sydney, Australia

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 309-321

  Mills, Annie ^a   Schmied, Virginia A ^a   Dahlen, Hannah G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communication; Midwifery; Obesity; Overweight; Pregnancy; Women's experiences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MATERNITY WARD; MIDWIFE; OBESITY; PERCEPTION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WELLBEING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84879019816     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2011.00386.x     Document Type: Article

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