Postpartum Mental Health and Breastfeeding Practices: An Analysis Using the 2010–2011 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System

Maternal and Child Health Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 636-647

  Wouk, Kathryn ^a   Stuebe, Alison M ^a,b   Meltzer Brody, Samantha ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Maps; Perinatal depression; PRAMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTHER; NEW YORK; POSTNATAL DEPRESSION; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PUERPERIUM; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MOTHERS; NEW YORK CITY; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84979645210     PISSN: 10927875     EISSN: 15736628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10995-016-2150-6     Document Type: Article

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