Development and content validation of an NOC-based instrument for measuring knowledge and self-care behaviors in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: CoNOCiTHE.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to design and validate the content of an instrument based on the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) "Knowledge: disease process" and "Risk control: hypertension" to measure pregnant women's knowledge and self-care behaviors about hypertensive disorders.

Methods: The study was carried out in three phases: (a) content validity of the indicators, (b) construction, and (c) content validity of the instrument.

Findings: The instrument contains 72 items with an average content validity ratio and representativeness of 0.

Educational intervention for the maintenance of exclusive breastfeeding in adolescent mothers: A feasibility study.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of implementing the nursing intervention Breastfeeding Counseling (5244) in first-time adolescent mothers and its effect on the knowledge and maintenance of exclusive breastfeeding in the first 6 months of life.

Methods: Randomized, controlled feasibility study with 166 first-time mothers between 14 and 19 years of age, from 20 to 30 weeks of gestation, assigned to an experimental group (nursing intervention: breastfeeding counseling) or a control group (usual education plus nursing intervention not related to breastfeeding). The rate of abandonment of exclusive breastfeeding and the level of knowledge about breastfeeding were evaluated.

Lactation counseling for maintaining exclusive breastfeeding in adolescent mothers: a trial protocol.

Background: Adolescent mothers have lower rates of initiation, continuation, and exclusivity of breastfeeding, and even more so in the first pregnancy. Current interventions target adult women, and little evidence is available for breastfeeding promotion among adolescents.

Methods: This is a pilot study protocol with a parallel, single-blind, randomized, and controlled trial design, to evaluate the feasibility of the intervention "Lactation Counseling" in first-time adolescent mothers to maintain exclusive breastfeeding in the first 6 months of life.

Care from the Cultural Perspective in Women with Physiological Pregnancy: a Meta-Ethnography.

Objectives: This work sought to conduct an interpretative synthesis of qualitative studies on the phenomenon of care from the cultural perspective in women with physiological pregnancy.

Methods: The Meta-ethnography method was used with the seven traditional phases by Noblit and Hare to describe the knowledge derived from the results of qualitative studies with relation to the study phenomenon. A bibliographic search was carried out in seven databases.