Care home role needs direction

Unmet dental care needs among children with special health care needs: implications for the medical home.

BACKGROUND Little is known about the characteristics of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) who have unmet dental care needs. OBJECTIVE We sought to describe the magnitude of unmet needs for dental care among CSHCN and to characterize those with unmet dental care needs. DESIGN, SETTING, AND SUBJECTS We used data from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs...

The information needs and information-seeking behaviours of home-care workers and clients receiving home care.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Discusses findings from doctoral research on the information behaviour of home-care workers and their clients. The paper focuses on the findings, which have implications for health library and information services. SAMPLE AND METHODS The qualitative research methods included participant observation in the homes of clients (n = 7), over a period of 18 months, in a city in t...

Home-based Care Needs of Preterm Infants Discharged Early from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Descriptive Qualitative Study

Background: Prematurity could result in the long admission of the neonate to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and development of some complications for both mother and newborn. The early discharge programs make the neonatal transference to home much easier and are beneficial to both parents and newborns. However,there are limited studies investigating the real needs of the preterm neonat...

Support needs and placement matching in out-of-home-care

Maternal care at home for children with special needs.

OBJECTIVE To identify the feasibility of home care and difficulties of mothers who deliver this care for children with special health needs (CRIANES) and to analyze the role of nurses as facilitators of this care. METHODS This descriptive study with a qualitative approach included ten mothers of CRIANES who completed a semi-structured interview at a teaching hospital in the municipality of Ri...