scholarly journals The Experiences of Mothers in a Neonatal Unit and Their Use of the Babble App

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402110231
Author(s):  
Charlotte Gibson ◽  
Kirsty Ross ◽  
Matt Williams ◽  
Nathalie de Vries

To better understand the experiences of mothers with an infant admitted to a neonatal unit and ascertain their perspectives on an available information support app, Babble, eight mothers with an infant admitted to a Level II+ neonatal unit were interviewed. Thematic analysis was utilized and responses indicated that mothers of neonates experienced challenges around adapting to the maternal role and managing their expectations of motherhood. Relationships with staff were seen as pivotal in the development of maternal confidence and essential to the overall experience. Mothers prioritized informational support, but how mothers sought out this information depended on their individual needs. Mothers who reported using the Babble app found it to be a helpful supplementary resource, tailorable to their situation. Results suggest that greater staff awareness of parental perspectives and the development of adaptable and diverse resources, ensuring parents are provided with individualized and appropriate care, is needed.

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Baliuk ◽  
V. Solovey ◽  
M. Zakharova ◽  
A. Kucher ◽  
S. Truskavetskyi

The contemporary condition of soil cover in Ukraine is characterized. The attention is focused onto widespread degradation processes in soils. The causes that determine the development of these negative processes are considered. The contemporary informational support for the condition of soil cover in Ukraine is estimated. In general, the current available information is of narrow-departmental nature, obtained by different methods and non-correlated monitoring programs. As a rule, it is stored in under-structured databases, incompatible with other information systems; mainly recorded on paper media unusable with modern technologies, whereby such information resources are diffi cult to be compiled together. These disadvantages are strong constraints against consistent usage of materials for evaluation, forecast and management of changes in the soil cover. The Soil Observation program should thereby be combined with Agrochemical Passportization and ecology-ameliora- tive monitoring; in other words, the application of innovative soil-agrochemical methodology is considered. Each individual type of surveys shall complement the others, and taken altogether, they shall constitute a con- sistent Information System, capable of solving the problems of assessing the condition, forecasting, manage- ment, usage and protection of soil resources. The monitoring procedures should be conducted on the basis of a new soil concept in line with unifi ed programs and methods, so as to meet European approaches to the maxi- mum extent. Such a technical composition enables getting information on present-day processes in soils, and is the only combination that actually helps us to “ecologize” our knowledge of soils, which is the leading trend in the scope of global soil-science. Thus obtained results will serve as a State-owned tool which would subse- quently facilitate the use and protection of soil resources all over the country, to be involved in a united global soil-information scope. The attention is focused onto social signifi cance of the information on soils and their fertility in terms of land resources optimization, as well as the formation of sustainable land use in Ukraine.


Author(s):  
Є.В. Воронюк

The article describes the importance of information and analytical support for the formation of organizational support for economic security of business. The stages and principles of formation of information-analytical support for creation of system of economic safety of the enterprise are analyzed. The connection and the nature of the influence of information-analytical activity and organizational support of economic security of the enterprise are investigated. It is important for the management of each organization to develop an individual mode of working with information, especially at the stage of its accumulation and analysis. Only a detailed and step-by-step definition of the process of working with information resources of various departments and officials increases the effectiveness of organizational support of economic security of the enterprise. The quality of analytical support is the basis for building an effective system of economic security of the enterprise and one of the key factors in its development. The harmonious combination of information-analytical work and the organization of economic security is a problem for the management of the business structure and requires a constant, operational study of the economic efficiency of the existing organizational structure.Adjusting the organizational structure directly affects the company's ability to withstand threats and risks from the external and internal environment. Modernity puts forward specific conditions for the economic security of the enterprise, especially given the deepening of the role and increase the amount of available information. The information array, which is freely available, is constantly replenished, which requires decision-makers to find new methods of information processing. The article analyzes the features of using the results of information support and analytical research to form an effective organizational structure of economic security of the enterprise. The study demonstrates the need for reliable and effective information and analytical support to improve the organizational support of economic security of the enterprise.


2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (suppl 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Wernet ◽  
Aline Oliveira Silveira ◽  
Mariana Lucas Rocha Cunha ◽  
Patrícia Luciana Moreira Dias ◽  
Marisa Utzig Cossul ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze online information available on the internet about COVID-19 and childhood cancer and discuss its reach potential with regard to supporting family functioning. Method: Documentary research supported by thematic analysis and the concept of family functioning and support. A total of 27 publications available on the websites of reference institutions in pediatric oncology, from March 1 to May 31, 2020, were analyzed. Results: Two themes guided the presentation of results with emphasis on language and sustainability assumptions to content, and to conveyed meanings and intentionality. The publications prospect families/people with basic knowledge about COVID-19 and have little information specific to the relationship with childhood cancer. Final considerations: Threatening circumstances require informational support. This study revealed incipient of specificity and a prescriptive tone in the online information available in early times of the pandemic, questioning the scope of support for family functioning.


2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 140
Author(s):  
Maria Da Conceição Luna dos Santos ◽  
Gutemberg Alves de Moraes ◽  
Maria Gorete Lucena de Vasconcelos ◽  
Ednaldo Cavalcante de Araújo

RESUMOEstudo realizado em uma Unidade Neonatal de um Hospital Público Federal em Recife, com os objetivos de analisar os sentimentos dos pais frente ao nascimento de um recém-nascido prematuro; investigar os sentimentos dos pais frente a este nascimento, durante hospitalização na Unidade Neonatal; compreender a relação do nascimento prematuro com a formação do vínculo afetivo entre os pais e o recém-nascido e descrever as repercussões do nascimento prematuro na família. A coleta de informações foi realizada por meio de entrevistas gravadas, com assinatura dos temos de consentimento livre e esclarecido, nas dependências do referido hospital, com 12 pais de recém-nascidos prematuros, que responderam à questão norteadora: como você sente sendo pai/mãe de um bebê prematuro? As entrevistas foram gravadas, transcritas e submetidas à análise de conteúdo, modalidade análise temática, que resultou em três categorias com seus respectivos temas: 1) sentimentos ambíguos dos pais frente ao nascimento prematuro; 2) a separação imposta à família pela hospitalização; 3) a prematuridade justificada pela determinação divina. Por fim, constatou-se que a experiência de se tornar pais prematuros desencadeia sentimentos ambivalentes, que a hospitalização do recém-nascido leva a uma separação da mãe do contexto familiar, além do afastamento dos demais membros da família deste recém-nascido, e que, todavia, esses pais parecem buscar na religião o apoio para aceitarem o filho real e continuar acreditando em sua recuperação.Descritores: Enfermagem neonatal; Família; Recém-nascido; Prematuro. ABSTRACTStudy carried through in a Neonatal Unit of a Federal Public Hospital at Recife, with the objectives to analyze the feelings of the parents facing to the premature newborn birth; to investigate the parents feelings facing to this newborn one birth, during hospitalization in the Neonatal Unit; to understand the relation newborn premature birth with the formation of the affective bond between the parents and the premature newborn and to describe the premature birth repercussions in the family. The information’s collection was carried through by means of recorded interviews, with signature of the free assent and clarified, into dependences of the related hospital, with 12 parents of premature newborn, who had answered the question: how do you feel being father/mother of a premature baby? The interviews were recorded, transcribing and had been submitted to the content analysis, modality thematic analysis that resulted in three categories with its respective subjects: 1) ambiguous feelings of the parents facing to the premature birth; 2) the separation imposed to the family for hospitalization; 3) the prematurity justified for the divine determination. As conclusion, it was evidenced that the experience of parents of becoming premature unchain ambivalent feelings, that the RN hospitalization leads to mother separation he of the familiar context, beyond the removal of the too much family members of this RN, and that, however, these parents seem to search in the religion the support to accept the son real and to continue believing its recovery.Descriptors: Neonatal nursing; Family; Newborn; Premature.RESUMENEstudio realizado en una unidad neonatal de un Hospital Público Federal de Recife — PE, con los objetivos de analizar las sentimientos de los padres frente al nacimiento recién nacido prematuro, durante la hospitalización en la Unidad Neonatal; comprender la relación del nacimiento prematuro del recién nacido con la formación del vínculo afectivo entre los padres y el recién nacido prematuro y describir las repercusiones de este nacimiento en la familia. La colecta de información fue realizada a través de entrevistas grabadas, con la firma del consentimiento libre e informado, previa aprobación del proyecto de investigación por el Comité del Ética en Investigación del Hospital Agamenon Magalhães, el 14 de febrero del 2005, de marcha al mayo de 2005, en las dependencias del hospital relacionado; con 12 padres de recién nacidos prematuros, que contestaron a la pregunta: ¿cómo te sientes siendo padre/madre de un bebé prematuro? Las entrevistas fueron grabadas, transcriptas y  sometidas al análisis del contenido, modalidad análisis temático, que dio lugar a tres categorías con sus temas respectivos: 1) sentimientos ambiguos de los padres frente al nacimiento prematuro; 2) la separación impuesta a la familia por la hospitalización; 3) la prematuridad justificada por la determinación divina. Como conclusión, se evidenció que la experiencia de ser padres de un prematuro desencadena sentimientos ambivalentes, que la hospitalización del RN lleva a la separación de la madre del contexto familiar, además del distanciamiento del RN de los otros miembros de la familia, a la vez, estos padres parecen buscar en la religión la ayuda para aceptar al verdadero hijo y continuar creyendo en su recuperación.Descriptores: Enfermería neonatal; Familia; Recién nacido; Prematuro.  


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Becky K White ◽  
Roslyn C Giglia ◽  
Jane A Scott ◽  
Sharyn K Burns

BACKGROUND Breastfeeding is important for infants, and fathers are influential in supporting their partner in their decision to breastfeed and how long they breastfeed for. Fathers can feel excluded from traditional antenatal education and support opportunities but highly value social support from peers. Online health forums can be a useful source of social support, yet little is known about how fathers would use a conversation forum embedded in a breastfeeding-focused app. Milk Man is a mobile app that aimed to increase paternal support for breastfeeding using a range of strategies, including a conversation forum. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine how fathers used a breastfeeding-focused conversation forum contained within a mobile app throughout the perinatal period. METHODS A qualitative analysis of comments posted by users in the online forum contained within the Milk Man app was conducted. The app contained a library of information for fathers, as well as a conversation forum. Thematic analysis was used to organize and understand the data. The NVivo 11 software package was used to code comments into common nodes, which were then organized into key themes. RESULTS In all, 208 contributors (35.5% [208/586] of those who had access to the app) posted at least once within the forum. In total, 1497 comments were included for analysis. These comments were coded to 3799 individual nodes and then summarized to 54 tree nodes from which four themes emerged to describe how fathers used the app. Themes included seek and offer support, social connection, informational support provision, and sharing experiences. Posting in the forum was concentrated in the antenatal period and up to approximately 6 weeks postpartum. CONCLUSIONS These data show that fathers are prepared to use a breastfeeding-focused online forum in a variety of ways to facilitate social support. Fathers can be difficult to reach in the perinatal period, yet engaging them and increasing social support is important. This research demonstrates the acceptability of an innovative way of engaging new and expecting fathers.


Author(s):  
Світлана Юріївна Даншина ◽  
Анастасія Володимирівна Василенко

One of the main problems of the development of the land market in Ukraine is the unfinished procedure of demarcation of agricultural land. The current legislation has determined the rules for positioning of for land pieces on the locality, has identified and prescribed mechanisms for obtaining a state act on ownership. The analysis of these rules allowed to systematize the input and output data, compile their list, and to determine the executors of the process of determining of location of land pieces. As a result, has obtained a generalized model of the process in the form of a contextual diagram, which defines a single point of view on process, the subject and the goal of modeling in accordance with the requirements of current legislation. The detailed analysis of the process in Ramus Edu. made it possible to develop a functional model of its key stage of the process of developing projects of land management. The use in this process a data, that represents objects defined in a space, the need for their processing and analysis make it possible to justify the use of geographic information systems (GIS). The article offers a method of information support for process of developing of projects of land management, which based on the implement of GIS. The most difficult stage of the method is calculates of the area of land pieces on the locality. This is due to the fact that need to take into account the different quality of land and its intended use, which affects the final cost of the land piece. Possible variants of calculation generalized in a single algorithm, the result of which is the estimation of the area of the land pieces, which indicated in the state act on ownership. Software realization of some of his stages is creating too. Thus, the compilation of available information based on GIS makes it possible to create a comprehensive view of the territory to be demarcated and to make informed decisions when carrying out land parcels on the locality. An example of the realization of some of its stages on the delimitation of lands located in the Pyatikhatk natural and agricultural district of the Dnipropetrovsk region is given. Visualization of the initial data was carried out in the program ArcGIS. An example of the implementation of the proposed method confirmed the possibility to use it in the land management organizations. The introduction of this method will allow to substantiate preliminary decisions regarding the boundaries of land pieces and to shorten the time for field work when the land pieces are transferred to locality


Author(s):  
Oleksandra Synhayivska ◽  
Oleksandra Cherednichenko

Research paper "The structure of informational-analytical support of urban engineering activities in the field of land use planning and management" consists of - introduction, 6 sections, 5 infological models, conclusions, and a list of 35 sources. The object of the study are methods and models of the discipline of land use planning and management. The subject of the research is the structure of informational support of urban planning activity, cadastral survey and expert systems. The purpose of the paper: to develop the structure of informational and analytical support of urban planning models, and also structural and logical models of natural conditions and processes, activities and structures in the field of land use planning and management. Area of application: information support of all types of urban planning activities. It is advisable to use the results of the work for Improvement of informational support of legislative bodies, municipal administrations and other institution responsible for urban development. 


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.38) ◽  
pp. 426
Author(s):  
Liliya Mirzayanovna Sadrieva ◽  
Denis Vladimirovich Tsovma ◽  
Svetlana Valentinovna Iudina

The process of growth of corporations and groups of companies has slowed down in Russia since 2008-2009 but has not stopped. Nowadays, a group of companies is usually a poly-industry organization with the presence of none-core companies and companies of the social bloc that is often the result of a trade-off of large business and the government. The task of bringing out the groups of companies of the social bloc into the break-even zone in Russia became acute after 2014 due to a reduction in reserves of profitability growth in the main profitable blocs. It is very difficult for the management of the group of companies to differentiate external risks, some complex system and accidental internal factors of activity of a relatively large number of economic entities and not to lose control of the group as a whole. In the authors' opinion, the development of a methodology for informational support of policy decisions regarding the architecture of a group of companies can be based on well-known concepts (the concept of strategic management) and approaches (systematic and process approaches). Then, the management of the group of companies is presented in the form of a list of competencies with assigned managerial functions of information support of different levels developed by the authors and presented in the paper.  


Author(s):  
V. F. Kornushko ◽  
A. V. Panov ◽  
I. V. Bogunova ◽  
O. M. Nikolayeva ◽  
A. A. Flid

The article considers the application of the system approach for constructing informational support for the life cycle of the production of medicinal products. The principal difficulties of creating a single informational system of the entire life cycle are considered in this article. A brief analysis of the information and computer support of individual links in the life cycle is given. Particular attention is paid to the use of a systematic approach to the creation of information support for the pharmaceutical development of medicines. The principle of QbD - “Quality planned for development” - was taken as a basis. For the implementation the QbD principle on the basis of the system approach, it is proposed to use the Shewhart-Deming iteration cycle to create an information support for a sustainable search for the optimal version (the program) of the conducted studies. The possibility of combining the PDCA cycle and the methodology of the system approach is shown. On its basis, system-theoretic multiple models of nformation support for pharmaceutical development in the graphic-analytical nomination were constructed. The method of applying the criterial approach for the formation of global and local criteria for managing research and the construction of system management models in the Melentiev’s brackets nomination are presented. The information modeling of the stage of pharmaceutical development has been carried out. Functional models have been constructed in the IDEF0 nomination.


10.12737/1761 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 76-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Стариков ◽  
Aleksandr Starikov ◽  
Брыкин ◽  
Aleksey Brykin

The advantages of using light CAD system in the production of furniture are investigated. They allow providing rapid product develop-ment, as well as carrying out all necessary engineering calculations. In addition, it is possible efficiently and as quickly as possible to prepare the product for production. The basic stages of informational support through the product life cycle with reference to automated systems are described. There are the advantages of the use of transparent information to support the product in the conditions of order manufacturing.


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