Background: More than 16% of children in the U.S. have a behavioral health (BH) disorder but less than half receive recommended care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs
March 2024
Objective: To assess obstetric clinicians' and leaders' baseline knowledge, attitudes, and experience with doulas and their readiness to implement a novel doula-hospital partnership program.
Design: Survey of obstetric clinicians and leaders before implementation of the doula program.
Setting/local Problem: Academic medical center in Western Massachusetts that was preparing to pilot a doula-hospital partnership program with Black doulas for Black women to address racial disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality.
Importance: Approximately one-third of the more than 1 100 000 confirmed COVID-19-related deaths as of January 18, 2023, were considered preventable if public health recommendations had been followed. Physicians' propagation of misinformation about COVID-19 on social media and other internet-based platforms has raised professional, public health, and ethical concerns.
Objective: To characterize (1) the types of COVID-19 misinformation propagated by US physicians after vaccines became available, (2) the online platforms used, and (3) the characteristics of the physicians spreading misinformation.