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{"title":"Alpha-fetoprotein testing: opinions of parents of children with spina bifida.","authors":"L Van Cleve","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One hundred parents of children with spina bifida were surveyed on the issue of alpha-fetoprotein testing and related parent choices, including abortion. A majority of parents responded that, if testing had been available, they would have availed themselves of it. A large majority would use the testing if they became pregnant again. Parents expressed powerful feelings in relation to whether they viewed abortion as an option.</p>","PeriodicalId":76125,"journal":{"name":"Maternal-child nursing journal","volume":"21 1","pages":"20-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18689949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Coping behaviors of children hospitalized for cardiac surgery: a secondary analysis.","authors":"B Corbo-Richert,&nbsp;S Caty,&nbsp;C M Barnes","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While the coping behaviors of hospitalized children continue to be an area of interest for researchers, systematic documentation in the literature concerning children's coping remains limited. In this descriptive secondary analysis, 23 master's thesis case studies were analyzed to determine how researchers described the range of coping behaviors that children used while hospitalized for cardiac surgery. The analysis sought to determine patterns of coping in both preschool and school-age children. A second aim was to validate further and refine the dimensions and items of the Children's Coping Behaviors Category System developed by Ritchie, Caty, and Ellerton in 1987. Results revealed that a broad range of names and labels of behavior was used to describe children's coping. The predominant patterns of behavior that emerged were direct action and information-seeking. Differences between preschool and school-age children's reported behaviors were evident. The coping category system was validated further and refinements are suggested.</p>","PeriodicalId":76125,"journal":{"name":"Maternal-child nursing journal","volume":"21 1","pages":"27-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19327779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thermoregulation and axillary temperature measurements in neonates: a review of the literature.","authors":"E B Keeling","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The theoretical and empirical literature were reviewed to examine the current knowledge about thermoregulation and temperature-measurement techniques in neonates. The results indicate that there is a conflict in the literature regarding the length of time needed to obtain neonatal axillary temperature measurements with glass thermometers and a gap in the literature pertaining to the symmetry of axillary temperature measurements in neonates not exposed to an external heat source. Liquid crystal and tympanic thermometers have been demonstrated to be inaccurate fever detectors. The use of electronic thermometers may offer nurses time-saving alternatives to standard glass thermometers for obtaining neonatal temperature measurements.</p>","PeriodicalId":76125,"journal":{"name":"Maternal-child nursing journal","volume":"20 3-4","pages":"124-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12476323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Changes in father-infant bonding beliefs across couples' first transition to parenthood.","authors":"R Palkovitz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thirty-five couples expecting their first child served as subjects in a study of changes in beliefs concerning father-infant bonding experienced by individuals and couples across the transition to parenthood. Through a series of open-ended interviews and structured questionnaire measures, it was determined that the typical first-time father and mother undergo significant drops in their beliefs about the importance of father-infant bonding across their first transition to parenthood. Regression analyses were employed to construct models predictive of changes in parents' father-infant bonding beliefs. Results indicate that both prenatal beliefs and circumstances of the delivery predict changes in parents' father-infant bonding beliefs. Implications for childbirth educators, delivery staff, and parent support providers are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":76125,"journal":{"name":"Maternal-child nursing journal","volume":"20 3-4","pages":"141-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12476325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Quality of life in school-age children following liver transplantation.","authors":"K E Zamberlan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A descriptive exploratory study was conducted to ascertain the quality of life in school-age children 3 to 6 years following liver transplantation for chronic liver disease. Thirty children were to be included, however only 25 were recruited, and 20 of the 25 children became the study sample. The 20 school-age children ranged in age from 5 years 4 months to 11 years 9 months. The setting for the study was a conference room adjoining a social work office in a 220-bed university-affiliated children's hospital located in a large city in the Northeastern United States. The data were collected through the use of individual interviews, which were audiotaped and transcribed, and the written completion of an 80-item, self-report inventory. Interviews ranged in length from 1 hour 15 minutes to 1 hour 45 minutes. They were scheduled at a time that was convenient to the children's yearly pediatrician follow-up examination. Since the children and their families lived in other states and countries a great distance from the hospital, all communication with the families and scheduling of appointments were coordinated by the secretary of the pediatrician. The children in this study experienced liver transplantation 3 to 6 years prior to the interview for biliary atresia (n = 15), alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency (n = 3), tyrosinemia (n = 1), and neonatal hepatitis (n = 1). Eighty-five percent of the children (n = 17) experienced liver transplantation before the age of 6 years, and 15 percent of the children (n = 3) experienced transplantation after 6 years of age. Responses from the modified Pigem's test, a projective test of children's values and attributes about self, and from the Zamberlan Questionnaire were content analyzed, then categorized according to the specific areas representative of the children's evaluation of the quality of life. Interrater reliability of the categories demonstrated 87% agreement of the coded items on the interview data. Five categories were derived from analysis of the interview and Pigem's data and included: (a) psychosocial adjustment at school and relationships with peers and family members; (b) internalization of the donor organ, the knowledge of the liver transplant experience, and thoughts about the donor person; (c) changes in physical appearance and physical functioning; (d) emotions, fears, or concerns about rejection and future outcome of the liver transplant(s); and (e) children's satisfaction with present and future life, and thoughts about self as reflected on the Pigem's test.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)</p>","PeriodicalId":76125,"journal":{"name":"Maternal-child nursing journal","volume":"20 3-4","pages":"167-229"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12476330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Maternal tasks of uncertain motherhood.","authors":"M C Stainton,&nbsp;D McNeil,&nbsp;S Harvey","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A longitudinal, phenomenological study was carried out to gain understanding of what it was like for women to be in a high-risk perinatal situation. Twenty-seven women participated in the study during which focused, unstructured interviews were conducted throughout their experience. Hermeneutic methods were applied to the 174 interviews and 13 diaries collected. A serendipitous finding revealed that women in high-risk situations work on the same developmental tasks as described by Rubin in 1975. However, these tasks are altered by the uncertainty of attaining motherhood inherent in the high-risk situation. The alterations in the tasks are described in this paper. The importance of Rubin's work as basic clinical research for maternity nursing is underlined by this finding.</p>","PeriodicalId":76125,"journal":{"name":"Maternal-child nursing journal","volume":"20 3-4","pages":"113-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12476322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effect of leukemia and its treatment on self-esteem of school-age children.","authors":"R L Mullis,&nbsp;A K Mullis,&nbsp;N F Kerchoff","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this research was to investigate the self-esteem of school-age children with leukemia in a clinic setting and to compare it to the self-esteem of healthy children. Thirteen chronically ill children, 6 to 11 years old, who were patients at a midwestern clinic and children's hospital, and 50 school-age children without chronic illness participated in the study. Children were administered the Kinetic Family Drawing-Revised (Spinetta, McLaren, Fox, & Sparta, 1981) to measure their self-image in relation to their family. Children's self-esteem was measured by the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory (SEI) (Coopersmith, 1981). The results indicated that children with leukemia did not differ in self-esteem from healthy children except on one subscale of the SEI. However, children with and without leukemia did differ on components of the self-image measure, a dimension of self-esteem. Implications of the findings are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":76125,"journal":{"name":"Maternal-child nursing journal","volume":"20 3-4","pages":"155-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12476328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluation of social problem-solving abilities in rural home health visitors and visiting nurses.","authors":"P O Jessee,&nbsp;C E Cecil","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A number of studies have shown the value of using home health visitors and visiting nurses in intervention outreach programs designed to provide pre- and postnatal care for low-income women. The purpose of this study was to compare the abilities of a selected sample of professionally trained nurses and nonprofessionally trained home health visitors to suggest and prioritize solutions to a medical dilemma. Data were gathered by the use of a Practical Solutions Test and a Ranking Solutions Procedure. The subjects for the study were 77 females residing in rural counties in West Alabama. The four study groups were comprised of: (a) trained home visitors with 0 to 6 months of experience, (b) trained home visitors with more than 6 months of experience, (c) professionally trained nurses, and, (d) a control group of women with no training or experience. Data were analyzed using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The findings suggest that all of the trained groups were able to generate more solutions to a typical client medical dilemma than could the control group: F(3.76) = 11.79; p = .0001. Faced with the same medical dilemma, the nursing group was more likely to suggest medical options over socioemotional solutions than were the home visitors: chi 2(3.76) = 9.41; p = .02. The nurses also prioritized the solutions differently by ranking them in a different sequence.</p>","PeriodicalId":76125,"journal":{"name":"Maternal-child nursing journal","volume":"20 2","pages":"53-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12462066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Symbolic interactionism: a perspective for understanding parent-nurse interactions following the birth of a child with Down syndrome.","authors":"M van Riper,&nbsp;K Pridham,&nbsp;C Ryff","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The birth of a child with Down syndrome is a challenge to parental and societal expectations. Feelings of shock, sadness, confusion, denial, fear, anger, guilt, and helplessness may be evoked. In this paper, the impact of stigma on individuals with Down syndrome and their families will be reviewed to clarify why interactions between parents and others need to be explored. Next, the central concepts important to the symbolic interactionist perspective will be reviewed. Then, qualitative data from an ongoing study of 90 parents of children with Down syndrome (ages 3 months to 18 years) will be presented to illustrate how symbolic interactionism can be applied to the to care of children with Down syndrome and their families. Finally, implications for nurses working with families that include a child with Down syndrome will be addressed.</p>","PeriodicalId":76125,"journal":{"name":"Maternal-child nursing journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"21-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12457123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Women's views of postpartum sibling visitation.","authors":"M C Mackey,&nbsp;H M Miller","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this study was to identify women's views of postpartum sibling visitation. Fifty-eight Lamaze-prepared, married multigravidae expressed their views on sibling visitation in a semistructured interview conducted during their postpartum hospitalization. The majority of women (84%) chose to have their children visit. Women identified positive and negative aspects of sibling visitation, explained reasons for not having siblings visit, and discussed reactions to separation from their children. The women believed both siblings and mothers benefitted emotionally from the visit. Negative aspects of sibling visitation included emotional reactions of mothers and siblings, lack of control between siblings and infants, and inconvenient location for the visit.</p>","PeriodicalId":76125,"journal":{"name":"Maternal-child nursing journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"40-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12640643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}