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Mashup Score: 3Tailoring the Baby-Friendly Community Initiative to create a positive breastfeeding culture - 7 day(s) ago
### Implications for practice and research Commentary on: Lok K. Y. W., Fan H. S. L., Ip H. L., et al . Building a baby-friendly community: Development, strategy, implementation and evaluation of a BFCI program. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 2024;1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.16267 It is recommended that breastfeeding is initiated within the first hour after birth and continued exclusively for 6 months of life.1 In Hong Kong, 86.8% of women initiate breastfeeding, while exclusive breastfeeding at hospital discharge is only 18.9%.2 This study by Lok et al implemented a Baby-Friendly Community Initiative (BFCI) model to assess its effectiveness and ability to improve breastfeeding knowledge and breastfeeding attitudes among the community as well as pregnant and breastfeeding mothers.3 The BFCI model that was implemented aims to build on the Baby-Friendly Hospital …
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Mashup Score: 1
Commentary on: Sørstrøm AK, Ludvigsen MS, Kymre IG. Facilitating planned home death: A qualitative study on home care nurses’ experiences of enablers and barriers. J Adv Nurs 2024 Mar 21. doi: 10.1111/jan.16171 ### Implications for practice and research Many individuals express a preference to receive end-of-life care in their own home, and social discourse frequently extols the home as the ‘best’ place to die. However, the likelihood and overall experience of a home death depend on crucial factors such as family support, access to home care …
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Mashup Score: 8Write for Us | Evidence Based Nursing - 10 day(s) ago
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Mashup Score: 0Plastic exposure may be associated with the deposition of microplastics in reproductive tissues and adverse clinical outcomes - 15 day(s) ago
Commentary on: Hunt K, Davies A, Fraser A, Burden C, Howell A, Buckley K, Harding S, Bakhbakhi D. Exposure to microplastics and human reproductive outcomes: A systematic review. BJOG. 2024 Apr;131(5):675-683. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.17756. Epub 2024 Jan 29. PMID: 38287142. ### Implications for practice and research As a result of the mass scale of production of plastics since the 1950s, microplastics, defined as particles <5 mm in diameter but larger than 1 µm, are now the most abundant form of solid waste globally.1 Microplastics have been linked to reproductive toxicity in both cell culture and animal studies, although the …
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Mashup Score: 6Improved access to reliable information is needed for parents to support them with unsettled baby behaviours and help-seeking - 17 day(s) ago
Commentary on: Hornsey SJ, Dobson A, Ghio D, et al . Living with unsettled baby behaviours: Qualitative interview study exploring parental perceptions and experiences of help-seeking. J Adv Nurs . 2024; 80(10), 4214–4229. doi:10.1111/JAN.16070 ### Implications for practice and research Unsettled behaviours in infants under 1 year old, like prolonged crying, fussing and posseting, are frequently reported by parents.1 Parents may interpret these as harmful2 leading to these ‘normal’ behaviours being overlabelled or misdiagnosed with a medical cause. In turn, this can lead to unnecessary medication use, and increased health service …
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Mashup Score: 0Quality of life research for people with intellectual disabilities should include people with intellectual disabilities as coresearchers - 18 day(s) ago
Commentary on: Holmes HM, Mortenson WB. What makes life better or worse: Quality of life according to people with intellectual disabilities. J Intellect Disabil Res . 2024 Sep;37(5):e13280. doi: 10.1111/jar.13280 ### Implications for practice and research The quality of life paradigm for people with intellectual disabilities emerged more than 40 years ago to improve well-being of people with intellectual disabilities and their families and to guide in planning and evaluating services and supports.1 2 During the same timeframe, inclusive research or research in which people with intellectual disabilities are part of the doing of research , as opposed to having research done …
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Mashup Score: 0Impact of childhood maltreatment on mental health in Australia: a novel meta-analytic approach combining epidemiological data - 19 day(s) ago
Commentary on: Grummitt L, Baldwin JR, Lafoa’i J, et al . Burden of mental disorders and suicide attributable to childhood maltreatment. JAMA Psychiatry . 2024;81(8):782–88. ### IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE AND RESEARCH Mental health conditions could affect up to 13% of the population.1 Experiences of childhood abuse and/or neglect before the age 18 can be a significant risk factor for worsening mental health.2 One way to quantify their public health impact is to use population attributable fractions (PAFs). Previous estimates have overlooked the causal effects of these experiences. Quasi-experimental methods could provide a novel way to infer causality without the need of assigning …
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Mashup Score: 8Write for Us | Evidence Based Nursing - 20 day(s) ago
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Mashup Score: 0Impact of childhood maltreatment on mental health in Australia: a novel meta-analytic approach combining epidemiological data - 21 day(s) ago
Commentary on: Grummitt L, Baldwin JR, Lafoa’i J, et al . Burden of mental disorders and suicide attributable to childhood maltreatment. JAMA Psychiatry . 2024;81(8):782–88. ### IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE AND RESEARCH Mental health conditions could affect up to 13% of the population.1 Experiences of childhood abuse and/or neglect before the age 18 can be a significant risk factor for worsening mental health.2 One way to quantify their public health impact is to use population attributable fractions (PAFs). Previous estimates have overlooked the causal effects of these experiences. Quasi-experimental methods could provide a novel way to infer causality without the need of assigning …
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Mashup Score: 6Improved access to reliable information is needed for parents to support them with unsettled baby behaviours and help-seeking - 23 day(s) ago
Commentary on: Hornsey SJ, Dobson A, Ghio D, et al . Living with unsettled baby behaviours: Qualitative interview study exploring parental perceptions and experiences of help-seeking. J Adv Nurs . 2024; 80(10), 4214–4229. doi:10.1111/JAN.16070 ### Implications for practice and research Unsettled behaviours in infants under 1 year old, like prolonged crying, fussing and posseting, are frequently reported by parents.1 Parents may interpret these as harmful2 leading to these ‘normal’ behaviours being overlabelled or misdiagnosed with a medical cause. In turn, this can lead to unnecessary medication use, and increased health service …
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