scholarly journals A Fourth Trimester Action Plan for Wellness

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-112
Author(s):  
Jane S. Savage
Keyword(s):  
Action Plan ◽  
Emotional Needs ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Early Parenthood ◽  
Early Parenting ◽  
Anticipatory Planning ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Expectant Mothers ◽  
Behavioral Action

Expectant mothers/couples often report planning for early parenting is overwhelming. Lack of anticipatory planning makes evident the need for providers, like childbirth educators, to assist expectant parents in minimizing or eliminating the problems associated with the transition to the fourth trimester, early parenthood. Planning for birth should extend beyond labor and birth to include the weeks following. The author's purpose is to explore the problems associated with the fourth trimester, to review the current health-related literature, and to propose an integrated behavioral action plan as an effective strategy. Self-efficacy constructs support a wellness plan approach to enable expectant mothers/couples to be proactive in preparing for their physical and emotional needs after the arrival of their newborn.

Intrinsic Capacitiy monitoring by digital biomarkers in Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE)

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
A. Piau ◽  
Z. Steinmeyer ◽  
M. Cesari ◽  
J. Kornfeld ◽  
Z. Beattie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Clinical Practices ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Monitoring Tools ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Status Assessment ◽  
Transient Events ◽  
Digital Biomarkers

The WHO action plan on aging expects to change current clinical practices by promoting a more personalized model of medicine. To widely promote this initiative and achieve this goal, healthcare professionals need innovative monitoring tools. Use of conventional biomarkers (clinical, biological or imaging) provides a health status assessment at a given time once a capacity has declined. As a complement, continuous monitoring thanks to digital biomarkers makes it possible to remotely collect and analyze real life, ecologically valid, and continuous health related data. A seamless assessment of the patient’s health status potentially enables early diagnosis of IC decline (e.g. sub-clinical or transient events not detectable by episodic evaluations) and investigation of its probable causes. This narrative review aims to develop the concept of digital biomarkers and its implementation in IC monitoring.

scholarly journals Effect of promoting current local research activities on large monitors on the population’s interest in health-related research: a randomised controlled trial

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. e028714
Author(s):  
Ronny Gunnarsson ◽  
Paul Cullen ◽  
Clare Heal ◽  
Jennifer Banks
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Randomised Controlled Trial ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Waiting Room ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Local Current ◽  
Health Related Research ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Randomised Controlled

ObjectiveThe objectives of this study were threefold: to estimate people’s interest in health-related research, to understand to what extent people appreciate being actively informed about current local health-related research and to investigate whether their interest can be influenced by advertising local current health-related research using large TV monitors.DesignRandomised controlled trial using a stepped wedge design.SettingThe emergency department waiting room at two public hospitals in northern Queensland, Australia.ParticipantsWaiting patients and their accompanying friends and relatives in the emergency department waiting room not requiring immediate medical attention.InterventionsA TV monitor advertising local current health-related research.Main outcome measuresOR for the effect of intervention on changing the interest in health-related research compared with a control group while adjusting for gender, age and socioeconomic standard.ResultsThe intervention significantly increased the short-term interest in health-related research with an OR of 1.3 (1.1–1.7, p=0.0063). We also noted that being female and being older was correlated to a higher interest in health-related researchConclusionsThis study found that proactive information significantly increased the general populations’ interest in health-related research. There are reasonable set up costs involved but the costs for maintaining the system were very low. Hence, it seems reasonable that research-active organisations should give much higher priority to this type of activity.Trial registration numberACTRN12617001085369

New psychoactive substances: Current health-related practices and challenges in responding to use and harms in Europe

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 84-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Pirona ◽  
Alessandra Bo ◽  
Dagmar Hedrich ◽  
Marica Ferri ◽  
Nadine van Gelder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Psychoactive Substances ◽  
Psychoactive Substances ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Health Related

A concept analysis of children’s agency within the health literature

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjorie Montreuil ◽  
Franco A Carnevale
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Health Literature ◽  
Children’S Agency ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Legal Contexts

The capacity of children to act as agents is being increasingly recognized and has important implications for health research and practice. However, there are various discrepancies in how children’s agency is defined in the literature. The aim of this analysis was to examine the concept of children’s agency within the health-related literature, using Rodgers evolutionary method. The following questions were addressed: How did the concept of agency become associated with children in the health-related literature? What are the sociocultural and legal contexts that surround the concept of children’s agency? What is the meaning of children’s agency? Forty-five articles were included in the analysis. An inductive approach was used to identify the attributes of children’s agency as well as the temporal, disciplinary, and paradigmatic trends in its conceptualization. The concept of children’s agency first appeared in the health literature in the 1980s and was defined as an ability children could gradually develop. Later on, children’s agency was used to refer to the capacity of all children to influence their own and others’ health-care needs and is now increasingly used to refer to children as active agents who reflect on and construct their social worlds.

Measures assessing spirituality as more than religiosity: a methodological review of nursing and health-related literature

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (8) ◽  
pp. 1677-1694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loralee Sessanna ◽  
Deborah S. Finnell ◽  
Meghan Underhill ◽  
Yu-Ping Chang ◽  
Hsi-Ling Peng
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Review ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Health Related

scholarly journals “It's Hard Being a Mama”: Validation of the Maternal Distress Concept in Becoming a Mother

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-42
Author(s):  
Debra Beach Copeland ◽  
Bonnie Lee Harbaugh
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Maternal Distress ◽  
Stress Adaptation ◽  
New Mothers ◽  
Early Parenthood ◽  
Early Parenting ◽  
Becoming A Mother ◽  
Low Income Mothers ◽  
Mothering Role

New mothers actively adapt to new demands and challenges in the mothering role but some may find this adjustment difficult and distressing, depending on their perceptions and resources. Previous research on maternal distress is primarily concentrated on needs of mothers with depression but nonpathological approaches of viewing difficulties in early parenting should be explored. A secondary analysis of a descriptive, qualitative study was completed on new, low-income mothers in early parenthood to determine how maternal distress influences mothers' transition to becoming a mother and to validate the use of the Maternal Distress Concept in the clinical setting. Findings reveal new mothers experience maternal distress on various levels: stress, adaptation, functioning, and connecting. Implications for practice and education are discussed.

Mental Health for Individuals with Pansexual and Queer Identities

2020 ◽  
pp. 329-341
Author(s):  
M. Paz Galupo
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Mental Health Disparities ◽  
Queer Identity ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Health Related Research ◽  
Health Related

There is a growing need to articulate a framework for exploring mental health disparities among individuals with pansexual and queer identities. This chapter provides an overview of the methodological challenges for researching plurisexuality in general, and pansexual and queer identities in particular. Challenges include the conceptualization of sexuality on a continuum, assumptions of alignment normativity, and the use of multiple labels. The author discusses the strategic use of pansexual and queer identity labels and their relation to current health-related research. The author outlines the scant research on pansexual and queer mental health disparities and offers considerations for moving a larger research agenda forward.

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