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Attendance at Well Child conferences
Thesis (M.S.)-Boston University
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What do teenage mothers want from the Well Child / Tamariki Ora service?
… good health outcomes for themselves and their children but for many, becoming a mother is a positive event. The Well Child /Tamariki Ora (WC/TO) service is provided at no cost to all children in New Zealand aged from birth to five years. This study aimed to discover what teenage mothers wanted …
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Identified Barriers to well Child Care for Homeless Children Under Age Thirteen
… barriers perceived by homeless families to well child care for their children under age thirteen and to determine if there is a relationship between perceived barriers and duration of homelessness. Using an investigator-modified version of Melnyk's Barriers Scale and a demographic measure, a …
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Implementation of a Migrant Well-Child Health Toolkit for CAWC Healthcare Providers
… of this QI project was to implement a Migrant Well-Child Health Toolkit at Casa Alitas Welcome Center (CAWC) that serves as a guideline for volunteer medical professionals in conducting comprehensive well-child examinations on migrant children upon arrival to the migrant shelter in Tucson, …
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Exploring the Relationship between Family Social Capital and Utilization of Well Child Preventative Health Care Services
… Act of 2010 increased insurance coverage for children, however possession of health care insurance doesn’t always equate to effective use of health care services. Misuse and underutilization of health care homes is associated with higher costs, fragmentation of health care, and poor health …
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Pediatric Weight Management in Primary Care Practice
Background: In the United States 13.9% of children between the ages of 2 to 5 years old are considered to be obese (CDC, 2018a). It is crucial for primary care pediatric nurse practitioners (PNPs) to screen, educate, treat and implement evidence-based interventions to decrease pediatric obesity …
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Electronic Cigarette Education for Parents of Adolescents
… primary care providers during adolescent well child exams. Methods. This project utilized a pre-education and post-education survey to assess for changes in parental knowledge after delivery of The Real Cost campaign’s evidence-based educational handout. Participants were recruited from …
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Preventive services use by Mexican and Mexican American mothers in a child's first six months of life
… collection was completed at Women, Infants, and Children's Program offices serving a large number of Hispanics in a north Texas metropolitan area. The majority of participants in this study were first generation Mexican immigrants (72% ), married ( 66%) and classified as Mexican-oriented (74%). …
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Neutralizing the Conversation Between Physicians and Patients to Increase Vaccination Rates
… throughout the pregnancy and in the pediatric well-child visits. This paper advocates for prioritizing patient-centered care, even in public health measures.
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Impacts of Housing Insecurity on Health Care Utilization and Parental Awareness of the Early Intervention Program
<p>Among children under three experiencing housing insecurity associated with poor developmental outcomes and decreased medical visit adherence, parental lack of awareness of the Early Intervention program (EI) may foreshadow racial and economic disparities in EI utilization rates. Informed by a …
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Autism and the Delay of Diagnosis in African American Communities
… how they learn, think, and solve problems. Some children with ASD have repetitive patterns of behavior, restricted interest in activities, and difficulty in communication and social interaction.</p> <p>According to the World Health Organization, the global prevalence of ASD 1 in 100 children …
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Improving recognition of hypertension in pediatric primary care
… pressure reference ranges vary according to a child's age, sex, and height, and diagnosis requires multiple measurements from multiple encounters. These factors, combined with the challenges of implementing appropriate blood pressure measurement techniques in children, pose a significant …
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Development and Validation of a Silhouette Scale to Measure African-American Mothers’ Perception of the Body Size of Their Two to Four Year Old Children
… reported that one-third of adults and 17% of children between the ages of two and nineteen are obese. Obesity in the U.S. is higher in the African-American groups comprising 13.2 % of the U.S. population. With the link between obesity and chronic diseases, such as, diabetes, heart disease, …
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Temperament among infants of diabetic and nondiabetic mothers
… and by a trained observer during the infants' well-child examinations. Group differences for activity level and duration of orienting were obtained by the trained observer. These differences were similar in pattern to those found by Yogman, Cole, Als, & Lester (1982) on newborn infants of …
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Adolescent Depression Screening in the Primary Care Setting
… to screen, and screening should occur during well-child visits. Furthermore, providers found the educational presentation to be helpful and stated they gained insightful information to be used within their clinical setting. Conclusion: The results of this DNP project suggest that an …
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The relationship between postpartum depression and maternal confidence in Hispanic mothers
… with all mothers who bring their infants into well child clinics for health checkups beginning at birth. Early identification and intervention may lead to a decrease in long-term negative effects on child development.
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Social Ecological Factors Associated with Parental Vaccination Decisions and Perceptions of Barriers to Childhood Immunizations
<p>The success of childhood immunizations has led to a decrease in the visibility of the morbidity and mortality of vaccine-preventable diseases. Parents are questioning the validity and safety of vaccines resulting in significantly increasing numbers of underimmunized and unvaccinated children …
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Am I My Brother's Keeper? A Well Child's Story of Living with a Chronically Ill Sibling
… study was to describe the lived experience of a well child living at home with a chronically ill sibling. A descriptive qualitative study was conducted. Data obtained through personal interviews was used to capture the children's experience of living at home with a chronically ill brother or …
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Application of a Theory-Based Educational Intervention to Increase the Frequency of Performing Oral Health Assessments on Children Among Advanced Practice Registered Nurses and Nurses
… performing oralhealth assessments (OHAs) during well-child visits among nurses. A randomized experimental design was conducted to determine if the educationalintervention would improve frequency of performing OHAs, in addition to, knowledge, confidence in performing OHAs, and advising parents. …
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