Telelactation via Mobile App: Perspectives of Rural Mothers, Their Care Providers, and Lactation Consultants

Prenatally diagnosed Down syndrome: mothers who continued their pregnancies evaluate their health care providers.

OBJECTIVE This study was undertaken to ask mothers who had children with Down syndrome after receiving a prenatal diagnosis: How was the process and what, if anything, could be improved? STUDY DESIGN An 11-page survey was mailed to 2945 persons on the membership lists of 5 Down syndrome parent organizations. The survey gathered both quantitative and qualitative data from yes/no questions, ope...

Weight loss during prolonged lactation in rural Bangladeshi mothers.

To determine the duration of lactation which is associated with weight loss in rural Bangladeshi mothers and also to determine the relationship with consumption patterns of principal food items, a cross-sectional study was carried out among 791 lactating rural Bangladeshi mothers aged 18-40 years. Results were compared with 333 non-pregnant and non-lactating mothers of a similar age group. The ...

The use of antenatal and postnatal care: perspectives and experiences of women and health care providers in rural southern Tanzania

BACKGROUND Although antenatal care coverage in Tanzania is high, worrying gaps exist in terms of its quality and ability to prevent, diagnose or treat complications. Moreover, much less is known about the utilisation of postnatal care, by which we mean the care of mother and baby that begins one hour after the delivery until six weeks after childbirth. We describe the perspectives and experienc...

Rural and remote dementia care challenges and needs: perspectives of formal and informal care providers residing in Saskatchewan, Canada.

INTRODUCTION Rural and remote settings pose particular healthcare and service delivery challenges. Providing appropriate care and support for individuals with dementia and their families living in these communities is especially difficult, and can only be accomplished when the needs of care providers and the context and complexity of care provision are understood. This paper describes formal an...

Modeling Transit Patterns Via Mobile App Logs