Training of Nurse Interventionists to Optimize Intervention Fidelity in a Telehealth Pilot Study.

Interventionist training and on-going guidance by the research team are essential in psychosocial interventional research to ensure fidelity. Consistency in delivering an intervention requires recruiting interventionists with well-aligned clinical experience, developing a replicable training process, and reassessing ongoing intervention fidelity using an assessment tool of observable behaviors that are essential to the intervention. This paper describes one research team's experience of hiring and training nurse interventionists to deliver a theory-based, telehealth psychosocial intervention for a single-arm pilot study.

African American and Latino bereaved parent health outcomes after receiving perinatal palliative care: A comparative mixed methods case study.

Background: Death of one's infant is devastating to parents, negatively impacting couple relationships and their own health. The impact of a prenatally diagnosed life-limiting fetal condition (LLFC) on parents of minority status is unclear.

Aim: This comparative mixed methods case study examined the person characteristics, quality of perinatal palliative care (PPC) received and parent health outcomes.

An Integrated, Developmental Four-Year Medical School Curriculum in Palliative Care: A Longitudinal Content Evaluation Based on National Competency Standards.

Background: While palliative care (PC) competencies for medical school graduates have been defined, the lack of established curriculum models and assessment tools hampers curricular evaluation.

Objective: To describe the scope and content of the University of Rochester's longitudinal, integrated four-year PC curriculum after 17 years of implementation, review student evaluative responses, and compare the curriculum to national competency standards.

Design And Setting: Combining and reorganizing a published PC curriculum assessment tool and a list of medical school PC competencies, we created a novel nine-topic framework to assess the content coverage of our curriculum.

Parents' Experiences With Ultrasound During Pregnancy With a Lethal Fetal Diagnosis.

This longitudinal naturalistic study sought to describe parent experiences of ultrasounds during pregnancies with lethal fetal diagnoses (LFDs). We interviewed 16 mothers and 14 partners twice during pregnancy and twice after birth and death of their infant. Parents reported that ultrasound providers had a profound impact on their experiences with LFDs.