Church-based education: an outreach program for African Americans with hypertension.

The goals of this education outreach demonstration study were to prepare a cadre of registered nurses (RN) as Church Health Educators (CHE), and to test the efficacy of a hypertension (HBP) education and support program in African American (AA) churches for persons with HBP in managing blood pressure (BP). In this two-phase study, RNs were prepared as CHEs in phase 1 and a convenience sample of 97 subjects with HBP was taught by the CHEs in phase 2. The intervention's content included the bases of HBP and HBP management strategies, and was taught in eight 1-hour sessions.

Getting enough: mothers' concerns about breastfeeding a preterm infant after discharge.

Objective: To describe maternal concerns about breastfeeding a preterm infant in the postdischarge period and to delineate the strategies mothers used in managing these concerns.

Design: Naturalistic inquiry was used.

Setting: A semistructured interview was conducted with the mother in the home 1 month after discharge of the infant.