Engagement in physical activity among African American women caregivers: a cross-sectional study.

Family caregivers and African Americans often do not achieve the recommended 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic activity per week. Factors associated with engaging in physical activity among African American caregivers have not been systematically examined. This cross-sectional study examined how contextual factors were associated with meeting the recommended amount of physical activity among African American women caregivers.

Grounded Theory Approach to Understand Self-Management of Opioid Recovery Through Pregnancy and Early Parenting.

Objective: To develop a theory to explain the processes women use to self-manage recovery from opioid use disorder during pregnancy, the postpartum period, and early parenting.

Design: Constructivist grounded theory approach.

Participants: Women (N = 16) who gave birth during the past 12 months and used medication for opioid use disorder for recovery through pregnancy and the postpartum period.

Comparing Experiences of Women Who Were Direct Breastfeeding and Women Who Used Expressed Breast Milk to Feed Their Infants.

Purpose: To provide understanding about feeding experiences of women who provide breast milk through direct breastfeeding and exclusive expression and to compare these experiences.

Study Design And Methods: A qualitative study was conducted to gather experiences from the perspectives of women who had given birth to a healthy, term infant within the past 12 months and exclusively fed breast milk for at least 2 weeks. The sample was recruited from motherhood and breastfeeding support groups on Facebook.

Engagement in Online Communities by New Mothers in Recovery from Opioid Use Disorder.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the role of engagement with online communities by women using medication-assisted treatment (MAT) to manage recovery from opioid use disorder (OUD) during pregnancy and the first year after birth.

Study Design And Methods: Ten participants were identified through purposive sampling for this secondary data analysis as part of a larger grounded theory study about ways women using MAT for recovery from OUD meet the needs of their mother-infant dyad. Inclusion criteria included: English-speaking, 18 years of age or older, living in the United States, within the first year after birth, using MAT to manage OUD, and identified engaging with online communities during pregnancy and/or postpartum.

Coaching for Childbearing Health: A Theory Synthesis.

This article describes development of a theory to guide nurses promoting perinatal weight self-management behaviors. The Coaching for Childbearing Health (CoaCH) Model was developed through synthesis of the Individual and Family Self-Management Theory with Transitions Theory, following Walker and Avant's process of theory synthesis. Qualitative data were integrated to provide perinatal context.

Unseen, unheard: a qualitative analysis of women's experiences of exclusively expressing breast milk.

Background: Breast milk feeding has numerous benefits for women and infants. Positive maternal experiences with breast milk feeding impacts exclusivity, duration, and maternal mental health. Most research focuses on women feeding directly at the breast.

Chronic Stress and Ovarian Function in Female Childhood Cancer Survivors.

Objectives: To explore the relationships among perceived stress, biomarkers of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) activity, gonadotropin levels, and anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) in female childhood cancer survivors (CCSs).

Sample & Setting: 24 female CCSs from the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, Scotland, were included in the study.

Methods & Variables: Perceived stress was measured using the Perceived Stress Scale.

The impact of maternal BMI, gestational weight gain, and breastfeeding on early childhood weight: Analysis of a statewide WIC dataset.

Early childhood obesity is a persistent health concern with more frequent and significant impact on low-income families. Maternal weight factors impact offspring weight status, but evidence on whether breastfeeding protects against this impact is mixed. This analysis examined a model to predict early childhood obesity risk, simultaneously accounting for maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI), gestational weight gain, and breastfeeding.

Health policy engagement among graduate nursing students in the United States.

Aim: The aim was to understand how health policy education is currently being delivered in the United States' graduate nursing programs.

Methods: This exploratory cross-sectional design used an anonymous online survey to target graduate nursing students attending American Association of College of Nursing (AACN) member institutions.

Results: Over 75% of the sample (n = 140) reported taking a dedicated health policy course and 71.

"I am a Runner": A qualitative analysis of women-runners' pregnancy experiences.

Background: Women runners are a group with potential for health maintenance and health promotion in pregnancy. When providers counsel women to discontinue or cut back on running without cause, an opportunity for health benefits to both woman and baby may be lost.

Aim: This study aims to explicate the experience women runners have in pregnancy to further providers' understanding of this population's unique needs.

Predictors of engagement in postpartum weight self-management behaviours in the first 12 weeks after birth.

Aim: To explore factors that influence postpartum weight self-management behaviours. Transitions Theory and the Integrated Theory of Health Behaviour Change guided selection of variables. Transition conditions, level of patient activation and social facilitation were examined for association with postpartum weight self-management behaviours.

Postpartum weight self-management: a concept analysis.

Aim: The aim of this concept analysis is to create a clear definition and framework to guide weight self-management research and promotion of healthy weight self-management during the postpartum period.

Background: A woman's ability to manage her weight through the postpartum transition has lifelong implications for her weight status.

Methods: This concept analysis was guided by Walker and Avant (2005).

Stages of change in the trajectory of postpartum weight self-management.

Objective: To identify women's patterns of readiness to engage in weight self-management behaviors during the postpartum period.

Design: Prospective, longitudinal design with repeated measures, guided by the transtheoretical model of behavior change (TTM).

Setting: A tertiary perinatal center in an urban setting in the midwestern United States with approximately 3,000 births annually.

Weight-management information needs of postpartum women.

Purpose: To describe the weight loss information-seeking behaviors of postpartum women.

Study Design And Methods: The study is part of a larger longitudinal descriptive study of factors associated with women's self-management of their gestational weight loss after birth. Participants answered questions about weight loss information they planned to access, had received, wished they had received, and desired sources of information.