Rebalancing of professional identity roles in an integrated maternity and neonatal care setting designed to increase parent autonomy: a qualitative study among health professionals.

This case-based qualitative study explored the professional identity as experienced by health professionals working in an integrated maternal-neonatal ward when their practice changed from a "paternalistic" model, in which physicians and nurses were in charge, to a shared or "consumerist" model, to increase parent autonomy. We analyzed transcripts of focus group discussions and interviews with 60 health professionals on their experiences with empowering parents and described factors associated with themes of professional identity. The changes most affecting professional identity were the constant proximity of parents to their newborns and the single-family room design.

In-hospital education of parents of newborns may benefit from competency-based education: A qualitative focus group and interview study among health professionals.

Aims/objectives: The aim of this study was to appraise health professionals' self-reported practices in educating parents of hospitalised newborns from the perspective of competency-based education and to identify areas for improvement of parental learning.

Background: Patient education is essential to achieve autonomy in parents of hospitalised newborns. The literature provides descriptions of the use of various components of competency-based education in patient education.

Parents' Experiences With a Model of Integrated Maternity and Neonatal Care Designed to Empower Parents.

Objective: To explore the experiences of parents with an integrated maternity and neonatal ward designed to empower parents by providing family-integrated care (FICare) to mother-newborn couplets in single-family rooms.

Design: A qualitative analysis with a contextual constructivist approach.

Setting: An integrated maternity and neonatal level 2 ward designed to empower parents in a teaching hospital in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Integration of Maternity and Neonatal Care to Empower Parents.

Objective: To describe the transition from a traditional hospital design with separate maternity and neonatal departments to a design in which maternity and neonatal health care infrastructures are integrated to empower parents.

Design: A descriptive, qualitative analysis.

Setting: A mother and child center in a teaching hospital in Amsterdam.

Jakartans' Perceptions of Health Care Services.

Health Care Services (HCSs) should implement ongoing innovation and continuously improve their quality. However, in evaluating the quality of HCSs, too little attention has been given to the experience of the users concerning the acquired services. This study focused on how the community values the current services in order to improve HCSs in Indonesia, especially in Jakarta.

From Physical to Spiritual: A Qualitative Study of Jakartans Health & Sickness.

Understanding the perceptions of health and sickness can help the government, health providers and health promoters encourage individuals to participate in healthy behaviors and to follow a healthy lifestyle. Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, is a culturally, socially and financially diverse city, with complex health care needs. As yet, there is no published data available about Jakartans' (i.

Determinants of intention to get tested for STI/HIV among the Surinamese and Antilleans in the Netherlands: results of an online survey.

Background: High infection rates of STIs are found among the different ethnic communities living in the Netherlands, especially among the Surinamese and Dutch-Antilleans. Only limited effective interventions that promote STI/HIV testing among these communities are available in the Netherlands. In the present study we identified the determinants of the intention to get tested for STI/HIV of the sexually active Surinamese and Dutch-Antilleans living in the Netherlands.