The Support Needs of Parents of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Qualitative Study Based on the Nurturing Care Framework.

Aim: To explore the support needs of parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in China under the guidance of the nurturing care framework (NCF).

Design: A descriptive qualitative study design was used.

Methods: Fourteen parents of 2-6-year-old children with autism were recruited for face-to-face individual interviews in Chongqing between July and November 2023.

Barriers and facilitators of nurse-led self-management support for adolescents with epilepsy: A mixed-methods study in transition preparation.

Aims: To gain insight into the readiness for evidence-based practice of self-management support during transition for adolescents with epilepsy among pediatric nurses, and to explore the promoting and hindering factors.

Design: A mixed-methods design with an explanatory sequential approach was employed.

Setting: Three specialty children's hospitals in southwest regions of China.

Application of neurophysiological monitoring during tethered cord release in children.

Objective: The objective of this study was to explore the effect of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) on tethered spinal cord release in children.

Methods: The clinical data of 454 children with tethered cord syndrome who underwent surgery for tethered cord release were retrospectively analyzed. The children were divided into two groups: the non-IONM group and the IONM group.

An exploration of clinical features and factors associated with pain frequency and pain intensity in children with growing pains: a cross-sectional study from Chongqing, China.

Instruction: Growing pains are the most common cause of musculoskeletal pain in children, affecting both children's and caregivers' well-being. The lack of definitive diagnostic criteria complicates diagnosis and treatment.

Objectives: This study aims to outline the clinical features and identify factors associated with the frequency and intensity of growing pains in children in Chongqing, China.

Behavioral Dilemmas and Support Requirements of Self-Management for Chinese Adolescents with Epilepsy During Transition Readiness: A Mixed-Methods Study.

Objective: The study aimed to describe and explore the behavioral dilemmas and support-requirement characteristics of self-management for epileptic adolescents during transition readiness.

Methods: A convergent mixed-methods study was conducted. Patients (N=654) in eight hospitals in China completed a demographic and disease characteristics questionnaire and measures of epilepsy transition readiness, self-management of epilepsy, and perceived social support, and 17 patients and family care-givers were interviewed simultaneously.

Family management experience of parents of children with chronic heart failure: A qualitative study.

Purpose: To explore the experience of family management among parents of children with chronic heart failure.

Design And Methods: Qualitative descriptive phenomenology was used as the research design. The sample included 16 parents.

Feasibility of the Omaha system for the care of children with dilated cardiomyopathy.

Aim: To explore the feasibility of Omaha system theory in the care of children with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), which may provide a practical basis for the continuous nursing of DCM children.

Methods: A total of 1,392 records describing symptoms, signs, and nursing interventions were extracted from the medical records of 76 children suffered from DCM. Content analysis method was used to find out existent nursing problems, make precise nursing plans, and take corresponding nursing measurements according to the medical records of DCM children.

Chinese families' knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding seizure management for children with epilepsy: a mixed-methods study.

Objective: This study aimed to examine Chinese families' knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding the management of acute seizures (AS) that occur outside the hospital in children with epilepsy (CWE) and factors that influence AS.

Design: A mixed-methods sequential explanatory study was conducted, which was integrated at the design and methods levels. In phase 1, a questionnaire was developed for this study, and a family functioning assessment was administered from Nov 2021 to Apr 2022.

Efficacy and safety of non-pharmacological interventions for neonatal pain: an overview of systematic reviews.

Objectives: To synthesise current evidence from systematic reviews (SRs) regarding the efficacy and safety of non-pharmacological interventions to prevent and treat pain in newborn infants.

Design: Overview of SRs.

Data Sources: We searched PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, CINAHL, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM), Wanfang Database, Chinese Science and Technology Periodical Database (VIP) and Google Scholar to identify all relevant SRs published in the last 5 years.

Guidelines for the prevention and management of children and adolescents with COVID-19.

Unlabelled: Children are the future of the world, but their health and future are facing great uncertainty because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In order to improve the management of children with COVID-19, an international, multidisciplinary panel of experts developed a rapid advice guideline at the beginning of the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020. After publishing the first version of the rapid advice guideline, the panel has updated the guideline by including additional stakeholders in the panel and a comprehensive search of the latest evidence.

Chinese parents' caregiving ability for children with haematological malignancies: A latent class analysis.

Aim: The aim of this study was to identify unobserved subgroups of Chinese parents' caregiving ability for children with haematological malignancies and examine the associations of the latent class membership with individual characteristics.

Design: A multicentre cross-sectional survey study was conducted.

Methods: A total of 392 parents of children with haematological malignancies in China were surveyed with the Hematologic Malignancies' Family Caregiver Skills Scale and a study-specific demographic information questionnaire.

Methodology and experiences of rapid advice guideline development for children with COVID-19: responding to the COVID-19 outbreak quickly and efficiently.

Background: Rapid Advice Guidelines (RAG) provide decision makers with guidance to respond to public health emergencies by developing evidence-based recommendations in a short period of time with a scientific and standardized approach. However, the experience from the development process of a RAG has so far not been systematically summarized. Therefore, our working group will take the experience of the development of the RAG for children with COVID-19 as an example to systematically explore the methodology, advantages, and challenges in the development of the RAG.

A protocol to develop a standard guideline for neonatal pain management.

Background: Hospitalized newborns experience a high frequency of painful procedures. Undertreated pain has a series of adverse physical and psychosocial effects on newborns. Guidelines successfully applied in clinical practice can effectively improve pain management in NICUs and reduce the incidence of pain.

Participation in healthcare behavior by adolescents with epilepsy and factors that influence it during the transition period: A cross-sectional study in China.

Purpose: Given the importance of adolescents' participation in the care of their chronic diseases during their transitional period in the healthcare system, the present study investigated the degree of participation in healthcare behavior by Chinese adolescents with chronic epilepsy and identified factors that should be addressed by health interventions.

Methods: The study used a convenience sample of 1238 adolescent patients with epilepsy, who were hospitalized in 17 tertiary A-level children or maternal and child specialty hospitals in China between January 2017 and March 2020. Several scales were used to measure their degree of participation in healthcare behavior and the factors that influence it.

Erratum to rapid advice guidelines for management of children with COVID-19.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.21037/atm-20-3754.].

Analysis and suggestions for the preview and triage screening of children with suspected COVID-19 outside the epidemic area of Hubei Province.

Background: Since December 2019, a number of patients infected with COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) have been identified in Wuhan, Hubei, China. As the epidemic has spread, similar cases have also been found in other parts of mainland China and abroad. The main reason for this spread is the highly contagious nature of the virus and the fact that children can also become infected during its incubation period.

Health Assessment of Chinese Adolescents with Epilepsy in the Preparatory Phase of Transition Process from Pediatric to Adulthood:A Single-Center Study Using the Omaha System.

Objective: Epilepsy is one of the most common childhood-onset neurological disorder characterized by both seizures and the related comorbidities. The preparatory phase in transition refers to a dynamic process of identifying and resolving health issues to ensure seamless continuing care from childhood to adulthood. This study identifies the health issues of the preparatory phase in transition from children to adulthood using the Omaha System.

[Effects of different types and concentration of oral sweet solution on reducing neonatal pain during heel lance procedures].

Objective: To compare the effect of different types and concentrations of sweet solutions on neonatal pain during heel lance procedure.

Method: Totally 560 full term neonates (male 295, female 265) were randomized into 7 groups:placebo group (plain water), 10% glucose, 25% glucose, 50% glucose, 12% sucrose, 24% sucrose and 30% sucrose groups.In each group, 2 ml corresponding oral solutions were administered through a syringe by dripping into the neonate's mouth 2 minute before heel lance.