Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
January 26, 2012 | by: Walker Karraa, PhD
In this installment, Cheryl Beck discusses the importance of screening and education for preventing PTSD after childbirth. Walker: In your 2006 work with Jeanne Watson Driscoll, Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders: A Clinician's Guide, you recommended clinicians use the Perinatal Posttraumatic St
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January 24, 2012 | by: Walker Karraa, PhD
Cheryl Tatano Beck, DNSc, CNM, FAAN, is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, University of Connecticut School of Nursing and a certified nurse-midwifehaving received both her certificate in nurse-midwifery and Masters degree in maternal-newborn nursing from Yale University. Cheryl also
January 19, 2012 | by: Walker Karraa, PhD
Cheryl Tatano Beck, DNSc, CNM, FAAN, and Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, University of Connecticut School of Nursing has published the majority of qualitative research regarding postpartum depression, PTSD following childbirth offering unparalleled data regarding the lived experience of
January 10, 2012 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
Later this month, Science & Sensibility contributors will share their hopes for the year 2012: what we would like to see accomplished in the ensuing months on behalf of mothers, babies and families, and the maternity care industry as a whole. One of my hopes for the coming year(s) is that
January 06, 2012 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
This past September, news hit the popular media that several Oregon state hospitals introduced a hard stop on elective deliveriesincluding elective cesarean sectionsprior to 39 completed weeks of gestation, with the potential to decrease the incidence of late term premature birthbirth occurring
January 05, 2012 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
In November, 2011, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released their preliminary National Vital Statistics data for 2010. Included in this data is a minor decrease in cesarean section ratesfrom 32.9 percent in 2009 to 32.8 percent in 2010representing the first drop in this mode of
January 04, 2012 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
According to Glanz, Rimer and Viswanath in Health Behavior and Health Education (2008): Change strategies are most effective and likely to be sustained when they are directed at multiple levels of the organization, while simultaneously taking the external environment into account.
January 03, 2012 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
Maternal Mortality through the Lens of Psychosocial TheoryThe quandary of pregnancy-related death in our country is a complex one with numerous variables at play. Breaking this public health challenge into two broad categories, systems and individuals, allows us to apply the constructs of a
January 02, 2012 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
Last week, we featured the five-part completion of Christine Morton and Kathleen Pine's assessment of the current Maternal Quality Care landscape in the United States. What a great way to close out the year by scrutinizing the measures our nation is taking--at both the federal and community
December 30, 2011 | by: Christine H Morton, PhD
[Editor's Note: In this final segment of Christine Morton and Kathleen Pine's series on the Maternal Quality Care landscape in the United States, the post authors look at where the <39 weeks elective deliveries bans have been effective, and where such attempts may have some unintended
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