Publications by authors named "Rebecca Penders"
Background: Innovations in technology offer potential solutions to address pain care inequities. To maximize impacts, greater understanding is needed regarding preferences and priorities of people experiencing or treating pain.
Objectives: This study conducted focus groups to investigate the perspectives of people with pain and healthcare workers regarding online resources for pain management.
Acute care nurses may suffer substantial fatigue if working night shift or if assigned a shift contrasting their preferred sleep-wake patterns, called chronotype. Nurses are at higher risk for diet-related, metabolic diseases compared to other healthcare professionals. Yet, the impact of preferred chronotype and mismatch to assigned shift on nutritional intake and risk for metabolic disease among acute care nurses is unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImmigrant women in the United States are at an elevated risk of poor maternal health outcomes due to cultural, linguistic, or socioeconomic barriers that may lead to critical delays in obtaining adequate health care. Ensuring access to high-quality, culturally appropriate perinatal health care is crucial to improve the health and well-being of immigrant mothers and their children. Various aspects of perinatal health care for immigrant women can be improved through community engagement strategies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLow breastfeeding initiation and duration of exclusivity put rural mothers and infants at risk for morbidity and mortality and significant economic costs. This scoping study aimed to identify determinants of breastfeeding disparities among rural dyads in high-income countries and their modifiable factors. The Arksey and O'Malley methodological framework was used.
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