Barriers and facilitators to recruiting and retaining men on pre-registration nursing programmes in Western countries: A systemised rapid review.

Background: The recruitment of men to pre-registration nursing programmes in many Western countries has remained static at approximately 10% per year.

Aim: To identify the experiences and attitudes of men on pre-registration nursing programmes in Western countries and the barriers and enablers to their recruitment and retention.

Design: Systematized rapid review.

An exploration of the influences on under-representation of male pre-registration nursing students.

Background: Worldwide, men are under-represented in the nursing profession. In Scotland less than 10% of pre-registration nursing students are male. Reasons for this imbalance need to be understood.

Breastfeeding education and support for women with twins or higher order multiples.

Background: There are rising rates of multiple births worldwide with associated higher rates of complications and more hospital care, often due to prematurity. While there is strong evidence about the risks of not breastfeeding, rates of breastfeeding in women who have given birth to more than one infant are lower than with singleton births. Breastfeeding more than one infant can be more challenging because of difficulties associated with the birth or prematurity.

Cluster randomised controlled trial of a financial incentive for mothers to improve breast feeding in areas with low breastfeeding rates: the NOSH study protocol.

Introduction: Breast feeding can promote positive long-term and short-term health outcomes in infant and mother. The UK has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates (duration and exclusivity) in the world, resulting in preventable morbidities and associated healthcare costs. Breastfeeding rates are also socially patterned, thereby potentially contributing to health inequalities.

Use of a birth plan within woman-held maternity records: a qualitative study with women and staff in northeast Scotland.

Background: Birth plans are written preferences for labor and birth which women prepare in advance. Most studies have examined them as a novel intervention or "outside" formal care provision. This study considered use of a standard birth plan section within a national, woman-held maternity record.

Prediction of initiation and cessation of breastfeeding from late pregnancy to 16 weeks: the Feeding Your Baby (FYB) cohort study.

Objective: To derive prediction models for both initiation and cessation of breastfeeding using demographic, psychological and obstetric variables.

Design: A prospective cohort study.

Setting: Women delivering at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, UK.

Evaluating the reliability, validity, acceptability, and practicality of SMS text messaging as a tool to collect research data: results from the Feeding Your Baby project.

Objective: To test the reliability, validity, acceptability, and practicality of short message service (SMS) messaging for collection of research data.

Materials And Methods: The studies were carried out in a cohort of recently delivered women in Tayside, Scotland, UK, who were asked about their current infant feeding method and future feeding plans. Reliability was assessed by comparison of their responses to two SMS messages sent 1 day apart.

An exploration of the motivation of pregnant women to perform pelvic floor exercises using the revised theory of planned behaviour.

Objectives: To investigate the motivation of pregnant women towards the practice of pelvic floor exercises during pregnancy using the revised Theory of Planned Behaviour (RTPB), incorporating measures of past behaviour.

Design: Longitudinal cohort study.

Methods: Women (n= 289) attending antenatal clinics in the North-East of Scotland were interviewed in the third trimester of pregnancy regarding their practice of pelvic floor exercises.

A cross-sectional study of knowledge and practice of pelvic floor exercises during pregnancy and associated symptoms of stress urinary incontinence in North-East Scotland.

Objectives: to establish levels of knowledge about pelvic floor exercises during pregnancy; reported practice of pelvic floor exercises in pregnancy; and prevalence of stress urinary incontinence in a sample of women in the third trimester of pregnancy.

Design: structured cross-sectional interview survey.

Participants: pregnant women over the age of 16 years and more than 30 weeks gestation attending antenatal clinics in North-East Scotland.

A longitudinal follow up of women in their practice of perinatal pelvic floor exercises and stress urinary incontinence in North-East Scotland.

Objectives: to establish the reported practice of pelvic floor exercises and stress urinary incontinence after delivery.

Design: a longitudinal study using a postnatal postal questionnaire.

Participants: 257 women in the North-East of Scotland were sent questionnaires between June and December 2000, 6-12 months after delivery (previously recruited and interviewed during the last trimester of pregnancy).