Attitudes Toward People With Intellectual Disability Associated With Integrated Sport Participation.

Direct, meaningful contact with people with intellectual disability, such as through integrated sport, may be related to positive attitudes. The current study aimed to compare implicit (unconscious) and explicit (conscious) attitudes between adults involved in integrated sport events and those in a comparison group who were not and examine the association between attitudes and degree of integrated sport involvement. An online survey measuring attitudes was completed by 295 adults without intellectual disability who participated in integrated sport activities and 450 adults who did not.

Pressure Injury Prevention for Complex Cardiovascular Patients in the Operating Room and Intensive Care Unit: A Quality Improvement Project.

Purpose: The purpose of our project was to examine the effect of an alternating pressure (AP) overlay on hospital-acquired pressure injury (HAPI) in high-risk cardiovascular surgical patients.

Participants And Setting: This quality improvement (QI) initiative was conducted in a core group of 8 cardiovascular operating room (OR) suites and 1 cardiovascular surgical critical intensive care unit (ICU) in a large Indiana-based academic hospital. The sample comprised adult patients who underwent complex cardiovascular surgical procedures and those in the cardiovascular surgical ICU with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), ventricular assistive device (VAD), and undergoing heart and/or lung transplant, or open chest procedures.

Maternal mental health in Australia and New Zealand: a review of longitudinal studies.

Aim: The aim of this paper is to describe the factors that impact on the mental health of Australian and New Zealand (NZ) women in the perinatal period (pregnancy and the year following birth), and to determine the impact of perinatal mental health on women's subsequent health by summarising findings from prospective longitudinal studies conducted in Australia and NZ.

Methods: A systematic search was conducted using the databases, Scopus, Medline, PsychInfo and Health Source to identify prospective longitudinal studies focused on women's social and emotional health in the perinatal period. Forty-eight papers from eight longitudinal studies were included.

What works to engage young parents into services? Findings from an appreciative inquiry workshop.

Aim: Lack of engagement in parenting support programs by young parents has been identified previously in the literature. This paper reports an innovative strategy utilizing appreciative inquiry (AI) to involve service providers and young parents in identifying strategies to engage young parents in services and programs.

Methods: A one-day workshop was held involving service/program staff and young mothers in three phases of AI: discovery, dreaming, and delivery.

Connecting, learning, leaving: supporting young parents in the community.

Providing support and parenting education through home visiting is a key early intervention strategy with young parents. Less is known about what home visitors do that makes a difference. The purpose of this paper is to describe the role and experiences of professional staff working with young parents participating in a multicomponent parent support programme (home visiting and supported parenting groups) provided by a non-government organisation in a socially disadvantaged area of Sydney, Australia.

Someone to talk to: young mothers' experiences of participating in a young parents support programme.

Aims: To identify young parents' perceptions and experiences of a parenting support programme, run by a non-government organisation, which provided both community group-based, and one-on-one home visiting, support.

Study Design: A qualitative descriptive study was conducted in one of the most socio-economically disadvantaged areas of Sydney, NSW; this is also an area with one of the highest percentage of births among young parents. Young parents were eligible to participate whether they attended one of the parenting groups and/or received professional home visiting through the young parents programme.

'Get alongside us', women's experiences of being overweight and pregnant in Sydney, Australia.

Studies of women's experiences of being overweight and pregnant are limited in the literature. Given the increasing rates of obesity in pregnant women, and the impact of being overweight on the health of the mother and the child, this qualitative descriptive study aimed to explore the perceptions and experiences of overweight pregnant women attending two maternity units in Sydney, Australia. Fourteen women aged between 25 and 42 years with a body mass index greater than 30 kg/m(2) participated in a face-to-face interview in their third trimester of pregnancy or in the early post-natal period.

The nature and impact of collaboration and integrated service delivery for pregnant women, children and families.

Aim: This paper explores the impact of models of integrated services for pregnant women, children and families and the nature of collaboration between midwives, child and family health nurses and general practitioners.

Background: Increasingly, maternity and child health services are establishing integrated service models to meet the needs of pregnant women, children and families particularly those vulnerable to poor outcomes. Little is known about the nature of collaboration between professionals or the impact of service integration across universal health services.

Physical activity in pregnancy: women's perceptions, practices, and influencing factors.

Introduction: Evidence shows that physical activity during and after pregnancy results in health gains for women. There is no clear understanding apparent in the literature of women's experiences with physical activity during their pregnancy. The aim of this study was to describe women's perceptions and participation in physical activity during pregnancy and identify factors influencing participation.

'Not waving but drowning': a study of the experiences and concerns of midwives and other health professionals caring for obese childbearing women.

Objective: to explore the experiences and concerns of health professionals who care for childbearing women who are obese.

Background: obesity is increasing nationally and internationally and has been described as an epidemic. A number of studies have highlighted the risks associated with obesity during childbirth, yet few studies have investigated the experiences and concerns of midwives and other health professionals in providing care to these women.

None of them were satisfactory: women's experiences with contraception.

Seventy-two women, aged between 18 and 50 years, participated in focus groups to talk about their experiences with using contraception. There were both continuities and differences between women in each of the age groups. Younger women appeared to be more accepting of medical opinion, while many older women rejected medical interference in contraceptive decisions.

Evaluation of the extended role of the midwife: the voices of midwives.

It is not uncommon for midwives in Australian hospitals to order and interpret tests and initiate medications. The National Health and Medical Research Council only formally acknowledged these practices through recommendations in 1998. Successful extension of the midwife's role is assumed to be advantageous to the health-care system in its ability to satisfy consumer demand for a less medicalized experience and to be cost effective.