Exploring Australian parents' knowledge and awareness of pediatric inpatient falls: A qualitative study.

Purpose: While there has been extensive published research into adult inpatient falls, less is known about pediatric falls in Australia. Falls pose a safety risk to pediatric patients potentially causing harm, increased length of stay, and death. Parents play a central role in reducing falls-related incidents given that, as parents, they provide care and/or oversee care delivered to their child at the bedside.

Improving the Utilisation of Nitrous Oxide in Paediatric Patients to Manage Procedural Pain and Procedural Anxiety.

The aim in this study was to understand current practice and use of nitrous oxide for management of procedural-related pain and procedural anxiety, to identify perceived barriers to use of nitrous oxide and to develop an understanding of patients, families, and nurse awareness and knowledge of the use of nitrous oxide in an Australian tertiary pediatric oncology/hematology short stay unit. Three online questionnaires (patients, parents, and nursing staff) were developed and completed between September and November 2015. Most children and young people (61%) report receiving nitrous oxide for at least one procedure.

Paediatric International Nursing Study: using person-centred key performance indicators to benchmark children's services.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of the Paediatric International Nursing Study was to explore the utility of key performance indicators in developing person-centred practice across a range of services provided to sick children. The objective addressed in this paper was evaluating the use of these indicators to benchmark services internationally.

Background: This study builds on primary research, which produced indicators that were considered novel both in terms of their positive orientation and use in generating data that privileges the patient voice.

Electronic therapeutic contact for adolescent weight management: the Loozit study.

Objective: To examine adolescent and facilitator participation in the first 10 months of an obesity management intervention including electronic contact (e-contact) via e-mail and short message service (SMS) communication.

Materials And Methods: Participants (n=49) were overweight and obese (13-16 year olds) and were randomized to receive e-contact in the Loozit trial. Adolescents were sent brief, semipersonalized health messages approximately monthly, from 2 to 12 months.

Internet food marketing on popular children's websites and food product websites in Australia.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to describe the nature and extent of food marketing on popular children's websites and food product websites in Australia.

Methods: Food product websites (n 119) and popular children's websites (n 196) were selected based on website traffic data and previous research on frequently marketed food brands. Coding instruments were developed to capture food marketing techniques.