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This article contributes knowledge regarding professionals' experiences, conceptions, and expectations of a coordinator role in preschools/ schools while multiprofessionally collaborating for supporting children "at risk". Data were collected via semi-structured interviews with professionals involved in a project in a Swedish municipality intended...
Aim:
To compare mental health in parents of preterm/ill infants and parents of term and healthy infants before birth and 1 month after hospital discharge.
Methods:
A comparative cohort design was used. In total 439 parents from six neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and 484 parents from four maternity units (MUs) in Sweden answered a survey 1...
Background
Early parenthood is a sensitive period for parents. Parents may feel uncertain about their new roles and unsure about where to find trusted information and support. The aim of this study was to explore the association between breastfeeding and early home visits and a proactive telephone support intervention and to describe parental exper...
Objectives of this study were to explore parents' needs for emotional support and how such support could be best delivered during admittance to a neonatal unit. This study took place at 6 neonatal units in Sweden. Forty-two semistructured interviews were analyzed using qualitative content analysis: 26 individual telephone interviews with mothers of...
Objective
The performance of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is dependent on recruitment. Recruiting women to RCTs regarding interventions during childbirth may be difficult due to time constraints and their vulnerable situation. Midwives play a major role in such recruitment. Few studies have investigated the views and experiences of recruiter...
Background
Information about and invitation to participate in a clinical trial involving an intervention during childbirth may cause fear or worry in pregnant women. The aim of this study was to describe nulliparous women’s experiences of receiving an invitation to participate in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of lateral episiotomy versus no e...
Aim
To describe the structure and content of telephone support calls between mothers of preterm infants and support team members after hospital discharge.
Design
This is a qualitative study.
Methods
Data consisted of 19 recordings of telephone calls that occurred between March 2013 and December 2015. The calls were made by support team members to...
Background
Mothers’ satisfaction with breastfeeding is important for breastfeeding duration but rarely investigated in mothers of preterm infants. The aim of this study was to describe breastfeeding satisfaction and associated factors during the first year in mothers of preterm infants (gestational age < 37 weeks).
Methods
This longitudinal cohort...
Background
During the first period of life, critically ill as well as healthy newborn infants experience recurrent painful procedures. Parents are a valuable but often overlooked resource in procedural pain management in newborns. Interventions to improve parents’ knowledge and involvement in infants’ pain management are essential to implement in t...
Introduction
Many women cease breastfeeding earlier than desired. This study examined the cessation of breastfeeding among mothers of preterm infants. Thus, the aim was to describe the cessation of breastfeeding in mothers of preterm infants up to 12 months after birth.
Method
This mixed methods study used a convergent design with both qualitative...
Aim:
To compare experiences of stress in mothers and fathers of preterm infants during the first year of life, assess changes in parental stress and explore potential predictors of parental stress.
Methods:
Between 2013 and 2015, data on parental stress were collected at 8 weeks after discharge and at 6 and 12 months postpartum from 493 mothers...
Background:
Being a mother of a preterm infant (< 37 gestational weeks) puts the mother in a vulnerable and fragile situation wherein breastfeeding is an important part of becoming a mother and bonding with the infant. Nevertheless, the breastfeeding experience of mothers during the first year after a preterm birth has not been well studied. To de...
Background
Breastfeeding support is important for breastfeeding mothers; however, it is less clear how mothers of preterm infants (< 37 gestational weeks) experience breastfeeding support during the first year. Thus, the aim of this study was to describe how mothers of preterm infants in Sweden experience breastfeeding support during the first 12 m...
Figure S1. Breastfeeding from discharge to eight weeks after discharge.
Breastfeeding is challenging for mothers of preterm infants. The aim of this paper is to describe risk factors for ceasing breastfeeding and methods of feeding until 12 months postnatal age in mothers who breastfed their preterm infants at discharge from neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The data come from a randomised controlled trial, which...
Aim:
The aim was to evaluate the effectiveness of proactive telephone support provided to breastfeeding mothers of preterm infants after discharge from neonatal intensive care units (NICU).
Methods:
Between March 2013 and December 2015, a randomised controlled trial was conducted at six NICUs across Sweden. At each NICU, a breastfeeding support...
Background
After discharge from a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), many mothers of preterm infants (gestational age < 37 weeks) experience a lack of support for breastfeeding. An intervention study was designed to evaluate the effects of proactive (a daily telephone call initiated by a member of a breastfeeding support team) and/or reactive (mo...
Objective
There are indications that the prevalence of exclusively breastfed preterm infants is decreasing in Sweden. The objective was to investigate trends in exclusive breast feeding at discharge from Swedish neonatal units and associated factors in preterm infants.
Design, setting and participants
This is a register study with data from the Sw...
Although breast milk has numerous benefits for infants’ development, with greater effects in those born preterm (at < 37 gestational weeks), mothers of preterm infants have shorter breastfeeding duration than mothers of term infants. One of the explanations proposed is the difficulties in the transition from a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to...
To evaluate the effects of estimated breastfeeding on infant outcomes in comparison to test weighing and to describe staff members’ experiences of estimated breastfeeding as a method for supporting the transition from tube feeding to breastfeeding.
A mixed method evaluation.
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in Sweden.
The study included 365 pret...
De flesta prematura barn behöver sondmatas de första veckorna eller månaderna på grund av deras omogna sugbeteende. Hur man på bästa sätt stödjer barnet i övergången från sondmatning till amning är inte klart samt att vården kring övergången från sondmatning till amning är reglerad med icke evidensbaserade riktlinjer och vårdrutiner. Syftet med stu...
