In-hospital survival skills training for type 1 diabetes: perceptions of children and parents.

Purpose: When a child is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, parents and/or children must gain significant knowledge and learn specific skills to maintain health. Children in the United States who experience diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) at the time of diagnosis typically spend 3 days in the hospital learning these life-saving skills. The purpose of this study was to gain knowledge concerning children's and parents' perceptions of this hospitalization period and of the initial education and support received from nurses.

Success of an educational intervention on maternal/newborn nurses' breastfeeding knowledge and attitudes.

Objective: To test the effect of a breastfeeding educational program for improving breastfeeding knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of maternal/newborn nurses, and to improve their intentions to provide breastfeeding support to new mothers.

Design: Quasi-experimental, pretest/posttest design.

Setting: Maternity units of 13 hospitals located in midwestern and east coast states.

Success of a lactation education program on NICU nurses' knowledge and attitudes.

Objectives: To test an educational intervention designed to improve lactation knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of NICU nurses and to improve their intentions to provide mothers with lactation support.

Design: Quasi-experimental, time-series pretest/posttest.

Setting: NICU of a Midwestern, free-standing, tertiary-care children's hospital.

Fathers' perceptions of supportive behaviors for the provision of breast milk to premature infants.

Purpose: To explore fathers' perceptions of behaviors used to support the provision of breast milk to hospitalized premature infants.

Subjects: Sixteen English-speaking fathers who, each were at least 15 years of age, had a hospitalized premature infant between 24 and 32 weeks gestation and a partner who had decided to provide breast milk.

Design: As part of a larger, exploratory study, a qualitative descriptive study was conducted to analyze fathers' perceived contributions to the process of providing breast milk.

The NICU experience of lactation and its relationship to family management style.

Purpose: To describe the impact of having a premature infant hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) on the parents' management of the lactation experience.

Study Design And Methods: A descriptive study using interviews was conducted with nine couples who had decided to breastfeed, and who were parents of premature infants, 24 to 32 weeks gestation, hospitalized in a large, Midwestern NICU. The family management style conceptual framework guided the study.

Obesity and physical activity in college women: implications for clinical practice.

Purpose: To investigate the relationships between levels of physical activity, health attitudes and behaviors, and specific health indicators in women attending college.

Data Sources: A convenience sample of 116 college women, ages 18 to 24 years, participated in this research study at a moderate-sized midwestern university. The data were obtained through a self-administered questionnaire; trained technicians collected physiological measurements.