Maternal-child nursing journal
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To describe women's evaluation of their own performance during labor and delivery. ⋯ The women confirmed the notion that they had important work to do; they identified their own performance as one of the most important or the most important component of the childbirth experience.
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Matern Child Nurs J · Jul 1994
Factors influencing young children's coping behaviors during stressful healthcare encounters.
The authors examined the coping behaviors of 80 preschool children during venipuncture, and selected situational and personal variables thought to influence their coping. The children's behaviors were recorded on the Children's Coping Strategies Checklist-Intrusive Procedures; the helpful behaviors of health professionals were recorded on the Nursing Actions Checklist. ⋯ Socioeconomic status, nursing interventions, and preparation for the procedure had low to moderate correlations with number and type of the children's coping behaviors. The results indicate that a child's coping is related to the situation, and the actions of professionals in that situation rather than to the characteristics of the individual child.
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Matern Child Nurs J · Jul 1993
ReviewPresence as a nursing intervention with hospitalized children.
A review of nursing literature indicates that presence is a widely accepted nursing intervention, yet very little discussion exists regarding nursing presence as an intervention with children. The author's purpose is to discuss the importance of nursing presence with children, provide information on ways in which nurses can operationalize and evaluate presence, and identify implications for needed research on presence with children.
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Matern Child Nurs J · Jan 1990
Pre-operative preparation: effects on immediate pre-operative behavior, post-operative behavior and recovery in children having same-day surgery.
This study explored whether preoperative preparation affects the immediate preoperative behavior, post-operative behavior, and recovery in children undergoing same-day surgery. An experimental design was utilized. Three hypotheses were tested: that children who receive pre-operative preparation will (1) display fewer intra-operative and post-operative complications; (2) use lesser amounts and less frequent administration of pain medications post-operatively; and (3) exhibit fewer behavioral problems during pre-, intra-, and post-operative periods than children who do not receive such preparation. ⋯ Subjects were retrospectively divided into groups according to their type of pre-operative preparation. Data were analyzed with multiple Pearson Correlation coefficients, ANOVA using General Linear Models, and Scheffe's test. There was only one significant difference: the group which played with hospital equipment showed less negative behavior changes at home (p less than .05).
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This article details the development of an instrument designed to assess the impact of certain environmental stressors in the pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) on parents of hospitalized children. A theoretical framework based on stress theory and developed by the authors provided the framework for this project. This 62-item scale assessing seven dimensions of the PICU environment was developed in three stages. ⋯ In the third phase of the project, the revised instrument was administered to 510 parents while their children were in one of five pediatric ICUs. Factor analysis provided seven orthogonal, invariant factors. An alpha coefficient of .95 was obtained for the total instrument; subscale coefficients ranged from .72 to .99 providing support for internal consistency and construct validity.