Knowledge, Family Support and Self-Reliance Capital when Caring for Low Birth Weight Babies

Introduction: Low birth weight (LBW) infants are very susceptible to illness.LBW treatment with the principle of preventing infection is very important athome. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship betweenmaternal knowledge and family support with the prevention of infection at home.Methods: This study used a correlation design. The samples were 160 motherswho had low birth weight infants with inclusion criteria mothers give birth tobabies weighing less than 2,500 grams with ages 0-2 months. The samples wereobtained through purposive sampling. The dependent variable was the mother'sability to prevent infection while the independent variable was the mother'sknowledge and family support. The instruments used were questionnaires. Thisresearch analyzed using Spearman Rho.Results: The results showed that there was a strong correlation betweenknowledge and the ability to prevent infection in treating low birth weight (r =0.696; p = 0.00) and that there was a moderate correlation between familysupport and infection prevention ability when treating a low birth weight (r =0.54. p = 0.000).Conclusion: Factors of maternal knowledge about infection prevention andfamily support need to be considered in increasing the ability of mothers to carefor babies with LBW. The factor of maternal knowledge about prevention ofinfection has a strong correlation value when compared to family support factors.Further research is needed on the model of increasing maternal knowledge aboutLBW infants during home care.

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Pengaruh Perawatan Metode Kanguru (PMK) terhadap Pencegahan Hipotermi pada Bayi Baru Lahir

Jurnal Bidan Cerdas (JBC) ◽

10.33860/jbc.v2i2.56 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 66-71

Author(s):

Parti ◽

Sumiati Malik ◽

Nurhayati

Keyword(s):

Birth Weight ◽

Infant Mortality ◽

Low Birth Weight ◽

Health Workers ◽

Kangaroo Mother Care ◽

Infant Mortality Rate ◽

P Value ◽

Low Birth Weight Infants ◽

Low Birth Weight Babies ◽

Before And After

Most causes of infant death are problems that occur in newborn/neonatal (0-28 days old), Low Birth Weight Babies (LBW) is one of the factors which has a contribution to infant mortality, especially in the neonatal period. Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) is a benchmark in determining the degree of public health, both at the National and Provincial levels. This study aimed to determine the effect of the Kangaroo Mother Care Method (KMC) on the prevention of hypothermia in low birth weight infants at Morowali District Hospital in 2019. The type of research used was a quasi-experiment. The population is all low birth weight babies born from May to July 2019. The sample in this study was all newborns with low birth weight born from May to July 2019, totaling 30 babies. There is a difference (influence) on the baby's body temperature before and after KMC with a p-value=0,000. The kangaroo mother care can continue to be affiliated considering its benefits for both infants and mothers, as well as increasing the ability of health workers in conducting KMC so that they can provide in-house training for mothers to be carried out at home.

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Is Chronic Lung Disease in Low Birth Weight Infants Preventable? A Survey of Eight Centers

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.79.1.26 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 79 (1) ◽

pp. 26-30 ◽

Cited By ~ 38

Author(s):

Mary Ellen Avery ◽

William H. Tooley ◽

Jacob B. Keller ◽

Suzanne S. Hurd ◽

M. Heather Bryan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Birth Weight ◽

Low Birth Weight ◽

Lung Disease ◽

San Francisco ◽

Chronic Lung Disease ◽

Multivariate Logistic Regression Analysis ◽

Low Birth Weight Infants ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

Prematurely Born Infants

Chronic lung disease in prematurely born infants, defined as the need for increased inspired oxygen at 28 days of age, was thought to be more common in some institutions than in others. To test this hypothesis, we surveyed the experience in the intensive care nurseries at Columbia and Vanderbilt Universities, the Universities of Texas at Dallas, Washington at Seattle, and California at San Francisco, the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, and Mt Sinai Hospital in Toronto. The survey included 1,625 infants with birth weights of 700 to 1,500 g. We confirmed the relationship of risk to low birth weight, white race, and male sex. Significant differences in the incidence of chronic lung disease were found between institutions even when birth weight, race, and sex were taken into consideration through a multivariate logistic regression analysis. Columbia had one of the best outcomes for low birth weight infants and the lowest incidence of chronic lung disease.

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The Relationship between Hyperglycemia and Retinopathy of Prematurity in Very Low Birth Weight Infants

Perinatology ◽

10.14734/pn.2017.28.4.127 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 28 (4) ◽

pp. 127 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sung Keun Kim ◽

Jin Wan An ◽

Seung Hyun Lee ◽

Yeon Kyun Oh

Keyword(s):

Birth Weight ◽

Low Birth Weight ◽

Retinopathy Of Prematurity ◽

Very Low Birth Weight ◽

Low Birth Weight Infants ◽

The Relationship

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Evaluation of a Mathematical Model for Predicting the Relationship between Protein and Energy Intakes of Low-Birth-Weight Infants and the Rate and Composition of Weight Gain

Pediatric Research ◽

10.1203/00006450-199406000-00017 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 35 (6) ◽

pp. 704-712 ◽

Cited By ~ 49

Author(s):

Sudha Kashyap ◽

Karl F Schulze ◽

Rajasekhar Ramakrishnan ◽

Ralph B Dell ◽

William C Heird

Keyword(s):

Mathematical Model ◽

Weight Gain ◽

Birth Weight ◽

Low Birth Weight ◽

Low Birth Weight Infants ◽

The Relationship

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A Prospective Study on Retinopathy of Prematurity in a Teritiary Care Center

Asian Journal of Clinical Pediatrics and Neonatology ◽

10.47009/ajcpn.2020.8.1.14 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 58-60

Author(s):

Mahaboob Basha Kallur ◽

K. Muralidhar

Keyword(s):

Birth Weight ◽

Low Birth Weight ◽

Retinopathy Of Prematurity ◽

Neonatal Intensive Care ◽

Care Center ◽

Low Birth Weight Infants ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Retinal Neovascularisation ◽

Premature Babies ◽

Low Birth Weight Babies

Background: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a vaso-proliferative retinopathy which occurs mostly in premature babies. The pathological change in ROP is peripheral retinal neovascularisation which may regress completely or leave sequelae from mild myopia to bilateral total blindness. International classification of ROP helped in uniform documentation and staging of ROP. In India, the incidence of ROP is between 38 and 51.9 p.c among low-birth-weight infants. Aim & Objectives: To estimate the incidence of ROP among premature and / or low birth weight babies who were born and admitted to neonatal intensive care unit and attending neonatal follow-up clinic.Subjects and Methods:A hospital based, prospective analytical cross-sectional study was conducted in Department of Pediatrics at Shadan Institute of Medical Sciences, Teaching hospital and research center, Hyderabad, Telangana for a period of 6 months from 1st October 2018 to 31st March 2019. Prior to the study initiation, ethical clearance was obtained and written consent was taken from the parents of the respective babies. The study subjects included premature babies (less than or equal to 35 weeks of gestation) or low birth weight babies (less than or equal to 1500 grams). A predesigned, pre-tested, semi-structured proforma was used to collected the data. The data was collected, entered in Microsoft excel-2013 and analyzed using SPSS version-22 (trial). Data was presented in percentages, proportions and figures.Result:The ROP incidence in the study group was reported among 17.1 p.c of the study subjects.Conclusion:Low birth weight and prematurity are important risk factors for ROP.

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Letters to the Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.68.3.472 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 68 (3) ◽

pp. 472-472

Author(s):

Elizabeth R. McAnarney

Keyword(s):

Birth Weight ◽

Low Birth Weight ◽

Young Adolescent ◽

Good Care ◽

Low Birth Weight Infants ◽

Letters To The Editor ◽

Low Birth Weight Babies ◽

Inadequate Care ◽

Pregnancy Weight ◽

Prenatal Visits

The article entitled "Teenaged and Pre-teenaged Pregnancies: Consequences of the Fetal-Maternal Competition for Nutrients" (Pediatrics 67:146, 1981) is a timely and important contribution. One of the greatest strengths of the paper is that Dr Naeye considered factors other than maternal age that affect fetal growth: namely, maternal pregravid body weight for height, pregnancy weight gain, parity, and cigarette smoking. There are several comments that might be pertinent in considering these data as the debate still continues whether the very young adolescent (10 to 14 years of age) has a biologic predisposition to bear more low birth weight babies than older adolescents or adults or whether the increased incidence of low birth weight infants born to the very young adolescent reflects fewer prenatal visits and inadequate care and thus, with good care, might be eliminated.

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