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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Premature Birth"”.
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An Exploration of the Effects and Clinical Presentations of Premature Birth within the Latinx Population
… are roughly ten percent, or 15 million, preterm births every year across the world. Therefore, it is vital to understand the impact on their development across cognitive, academic, socioemotional, and behavioral levels. A vast amount of research has shown that children who are born prematurely …
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Identifying Risk Factors Related to Premature Birth Through Binary Logistic and Proportional Odds Ordinal Logistic Regression
<p>Premature birth has been identified as the single greatest cause of death worldwide in children under the age of five. This thesis will implement binary logistic regression and proportional odds ordinal logistic regression to predict different levels of premature birth and identify associated …
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Factors affecting the immunogenicity and protective efficacy of routine childhood immunisations / Christina Ann Boros.
… efficacy of pertussis vaccines and the effect of premature birth on antibody response to routine childhood immunisations.
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Dental Health and Socioeconomic Status: Their Relationship with Preterm Labor in Rural Western South Dakota A Pilot Study
… in the United States has had no effect on premature birth, which is the leading cause of fetal death (American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2003). Many factors can lead to premature birth. Infection, dental health, and socioeconomic status have all been substantiated through recent …
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Using trauma as a lens to explore the experience of mothering a very premature infant in the first year after hospital discharge
Approximately 60,000 premature babies are born in England every year (Office of National Statistics ONS, 2017). Survival rates of babies weighing 800g and over have risen to 90% (WHO, 2018) resulting in an increasing number of mothers parenting very premature babies. Understanding the experiences …
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The Effects of an Educational Intervention of the Knowledge of, Beliefs about, and Behavioral Intentions Related to Preterm Labor Signs and Symptoms Among Normal, Healthy, Pregnant Women
Premature birth continues to be the leading cause of mortality and morbidity among infants in the United States. The cause of preterm birth remains unknown, yet early and comprehensive prenatal care offers at least a partial solution to the prevention of this event. Preterm labor signs and symptoms …
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Posttraumatic stress and growth symptoms in parents of premature infants: The role of rumination type and social support.
Research has started to recognise premature birth and subsequent hospitalisation of the infant as a potentially traumatic experience for parents. There is also a growing interest within the trauma literature, of the potentially positive psychological changes that can occur following a traumatic …
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Improving Birth Outcomes: Women’s Oral Health Project
<p><em>Improving Birth Outcomes: Women’s Oral Health Project </em>is a new project housed within the Child Health and Disability Prevention, CHDP Program. The main goal of the project is to improve the birth outcomes of high-risk pregnant women and their children, by educating participants within …
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Impact of a NICU Bedside Reading Initiative on Self-Reported Maternal Stress and Mother-Infant Attachment
<p>Premature birth and a corresponding hospitalization in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) presents infants and their families with an array of medical and psychosocial stressors that have the potential to impact neurodevelopment and social-emotional functioning in both the long-and …
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SDTDMn0 : a multidimensional distributed data mining framework supporting time series data analysis for critical care research
Premature birth is one of the major perinatal health issues across the world. In 2007, the estimated Canadian preterm birth rate was 8.1 % (CIHI, 2009). Recent research has shown that conditions, such as nosocomial infections or apnoeas, exhibit certain variations in the baby's physiological …
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The development and evaluation of a smoking cessation programme for disadvantaged pregnant women in South Africa
… smoking-related pregnancy complications and poor birth outcomes. It has long been recommended that a smoking cessation intervention be developed specifically for this high risk group. There is strong evidence that best practice smoking cessation interventions for pregnant women can be effective in …
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A tool for hemodynamic data analysis
Nearly 2% of all live births are very premature (gestational age less than 32 weeks), and 50% of all new cases of cerebral palsy occur in survivors of premature birth (gestational age less than 37 weeks). Because of their underdeveloped vascular structure, premature infants are especially …
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Lived experiences of mothers when providing Kangaroo mother care at the hospitals in Vhembe District of Limpopo Province, South Africa
… first four weeks of life due to complications of premature birth. One-third of Low Birth Weight (LBW) babies die within the first 12 hours after delivery. The main reasons premature babies are at greater risk of illness and death is that they lack the ability to control their body temperature …
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A medico-legal study of infant mortality in Kuwait from 2003 to 2006: A retrospective study
… deaths. These include congenital disorders, premature birth, infections, sudden infant death syndrome, road traffic, domestic accidents and infanticide and they can be classified as natural and un-natural causes. This retrospective study described the roles of the Forensic Department in …
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Face recognition ability in preterm or low gestational weight adults and children.
… system. Very recent evidence suggests that premature birth and low birth weight influence face recognition ability in later childhood (Perez-Roche et al., 2017), however, the trajectory of these impairments is unclear. The present research aimed to address how the early influence of …
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Characterization of Normal Development and Injury in the Premature Baboon Brain
… to survival rates that now exceed 85%, premature infants are at high risk for motor, sensory, cognitive and behavioral disabilities. In order to develop therapeutic interventions to prevent these adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes, we must first understand the nature of cerebral injury …
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Infant imitation: Detecting risk in the first year with PediaTrac™
… spectrum disorder (ASD), a particular risk of premature birth, is associated with atypical imitation and social communication. Although imitation emerges in infancy, most current screening and diagnostic tools for ASD cannot be utilized prior to 12 months. The present study aimed to develop and …
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NNeMo (Neonatal NeuroMonitor) - a hybrid optical system to characterize perfusion and metabolism in the newborn brain
Premature birth, defined as a gestational period less than 37 weeks, occurs in 8% of infants born in Canada. These births are associated with a higher risk of developing neurological complications. Infants born with very low birth weights (VLBW, < 1500 g) experience cognitive or behavioural …
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Evaluation of an Early Discharge Policy For Infants With Apnea of Prematurity
… of the literature the psychosocial impact of premature birth on the family and the potential effect on the infant's hospital discharge. The evaluation of this policy is based on the conceptual framework of effectiveness, efficiency, and equity in health care. Results were used to generate …
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Regulation of Lung Mesenchymal Cells By Epithelial Wnt Ligands
… a chronic lung disease often associated with premature birth. Mutants also showed increased smooth muscle actin (ACTA2) expression in pericytes in the adult murine lung, a phenotype reminiscent to pulmonary hypertension. This phenotype was also confirmed by single cell RNA-seq, which …
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