This study aims to determine the effectiveness of providing health education using audio-visual media, namely application SIPER-B (Information System for LBW Infant Care) on mothers' knowledge, confidence and skills in caring low birth weight babies. The research method is quasi-experimental with a pre-test – post-test control group design. results showed that intervention were higher than grou...

BACKGROUND Nurse caring has been linked to many clinical outcomes, including patient satisfaction, well-being, and healing. In addition, it is valued by nursing staff and viewed as being essential to clinical practice. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this program evaluation study was to determine the difference in patient satisfaction with overall nursing care and perceived nurse caring when a nurs...

BACKGROUND Co-bedding, a developmental care strategy, is the practice of caring for diaper clad twins in one incubator (versus separating and caring for each infant in separate incubators), thus creating the opportunity for skin-to-skin contact and touch between the twins. In studies of mothers and their infants, maternal skin-to-skin contact has been shown to decrease procedural pain response ...

BACKGROUND Popular parenting literature promotes different approaches to caring for infants, based around variations in the use of parent-led routines and promoting infant independence. However, there is little empirical evidence of how these early behaviours affect wider parenting choices such as infant feeding. Breastfeeding often requires an infant-led approach, feeding on demand and allowin...

Providing care for patients and caring about patients should go hand in hand. Caring implicates our fundamental attitude towards patients, and our ability to convey kindness, compassion and respect. Yet all too often, patients and families experience health care as impersonal, mechanical; and quickly discover that patienthood trumps personhood. The consequences of a medical system organized aro...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this principle-based concept analysis was to analyze caring in nursing education and to explain the current state of the science based on epistemologic, pragmatic, linguistic, and logical philosophical principles. METHODS A principle-based concept analysis method was used to analyze the nursing literature. The dataset included 46 English language studies, published fro...

Abstract Research studies on social robotics and human-robot interaction have gained insights into factors that influence people’s perceptions behaviors towards robots. However, adults’ of robots may differ significantly from those infants. Consequently, extending this knowledge also to infants’ attitudes toward is a growing field research. Indeed, infant-robot (IRI) emerging as critical necess...

OBJECTIVE Exploring maternal experience with premature newborn children in a domestic environment. METHODS The study was qualitative and used focus group interviews with 24 women who had had preterm deliveries in a public maternity hospital located in Northeast Brazil during June and October 2005. The mothers returned to the hospital facility at least 30 days after the newborn were discharged...

Literature about parenting traditionally focused on caring behaviors and parental representations. Nowadays, an innovative line of research, interested in evaluating the neural areas and hormones implicated in the nurturing and caregiving responses, has developed. The only way to permit a newborn to survive and grow up is to respond to his needs and in order to succeed it is necessary, first of...