A qualitative study of women's views about how health professionals communicate about infant feeding.
Objective: To look at how communication by health professionals about infant feeding is perceived by first time mothers.Design: Qualitative semi-structured interviews early in pregnancy and 6-10 weeks after birth.Subjects and setting: Twenty-one white, low income women expecting their first baby wer...
| Publicado en: | Health Expectations Vol. 3; no. 4; pp. 224 - 234 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2000
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