Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
January 31, 2012 | by: Walker Karraa, PhD
Walker: How did you discover your love of research? Cheryl: It began during my graduate studies at Yale University. There I received my masters in nursing degree plus became a certified nurse-midwife. At Yale, research is a way of life. The value of research as the most important way to system
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January 27, 2012 | by: Darline Turner-Lee
Bed rest is ineffective in treating anything So reads the title of the clinical POEM presented in Essential Evidence (www.essentialevidence.com) in January 2000. The poem is a summary of a study published in the Lancet by Allen et al entitled, Bed rest: a potentially harmful treatment needing
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
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
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