Low-Income, Urban Minority Women's Perceptions of Self- and Infant Care during the Postpartum Period

JOGNN - Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 803-812

  Suplee, Patricia D ^a   Gardner, Marcia R ^b   Borucki, Lynne C ^a  

^a Rutgers University Camden   (United States)

^b SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant care; Minority women; Postpartum; Self care

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; CHILD CARE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MINORITY HEALTH; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTNATAL CARE; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGY; PUERPERIUM; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT CARE; MINORITY HEALTH; PARENTING; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POSTNATAL CARE; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84937441146     PISSN: 08842175     EISSN: 15526909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1552-6909.12506     Document Type: Article

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