Background: Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is a standardized and protocolized care system for low birth weight, based on skin-to-skin contact between the infant and the mother. The mother's active participation is crucial for effectively implementing kangaroo mother care services to improve physiological stress parameters for neonates. Aim: Evaluate the effect of kangaroo mother care discharge guide program on mothers and preterm neonates' outcomes. Design:Quasi experimental research study design was utilized. Setting: The study was conducted at
Background and Objectives: Delivery is considered as one of the most painful experiences of women's life. There fore continuous labor support offers multiple benefits for mothers and infants. The present study aimed to compare the effects of maternal supportive care and acupressure (at LI4 a cupoint) during labor on labor pain intensity, and infant's Apgar score. Methods: Parturient women (n=150) with low-risk pregnancy (with singleton pregnancies in the active phase of spontaneous labor, without any medical or obstetric problems, were enrolled in this single-blinded, randomized, clinical trial)were randomly divided into supportive care(Doulas)group, LI4 acupressure group, and control group each containing 50 subjects in which no pharmacological or non-pharmacological methods of pain relief were used. Pain intensity was measured by visual analog scale before and after the intervention in the first stage of labor. Pressure or touch was applied for 30 minutes during uterine contractions. The data were collected using a questionnaire including demographic and pregnancy characteristics. Then, the data were analyzed using Chi-square test and one-way ANOVA. Results: The difference in the pain scores between Doulas, the acupressure and control group was statistically significant (p<0.001). Moreover, the frequency of Apgar score>8 in the first and 5 th minutes was higher in the supportive care and acupressure groups compared to the control group, and the difference was statistically significant (P<0.001). Conclusion and recommendation: Continuous support and acupressure are an effective, non-invasive, and easily applicable technique to reduce labor pain and could reduce the length of labor stages and. Therefore, these methods, as effective nonpharmacological strategies, can be introduced to the medical staff to improve the delivery outcomes.
Feeding and eating are important activities that allow individuals to maintain adequate growth in children with cerebral palsy. Aim: The study aimed to evaluate the effect of social-platform program on mothers' caring regarding feeding of the children with cerebral palsy. Material and methods: Design: A quasi-experimental research design was adopted for this study. Setting: This study was applied in Egypt at Mansoura City. Sample: -A total sample of 200 mothers through the non-probability purposive sampling technique was selected using an online questionnaire via Google Form. Participants were equally and randomly allocated to a study and a control group, (with 100) patients for each one. Tools: Three tools were used: Tool I: Mother's knowledge assessment questionnaire regarding cerebral palsy, Tool II: Mother's reported practice regarding feeding children with cerebral palsy, and Tool III: Mother's satisfaction with the social-based program. Results: The study findings demonstrated that the majority of investigated mothers' knowledge and feeding practices were satisfactory and improved after the online social-based program compared to before the social-based program. The study result portrays that (80%) of the mothers in the experimental group compared to (70%) of them in the control group were of the same age from 20-≤ 30 years old with a mean age (25.21 ± 2.02) (26.61 ± 3.43) respectively.
Conclusion:The study concluded that an social-platform feeding program for children with cerebral palsy improved their mothers' knowledge and practice. The study and control groups differed statistically significantly. Recommendations: Provide mothers with a well-planned socialplatform program to increase their knowledge and practice of feeding children with cerebral palsy.
This study investigated the effect of RAFT strategy on developing EFL creative writing skills for the third year governmental language preparatory school students. Eighty students were randomly chosen and divided into two groups: the experimental group and the control group. After ensuring their equivalence, the experimental group students were trained on creative writing skills through the use of RAFT strategy, while the regular instruction was used with the control group. To achieve the aims of the study, the researchers constructed a creative writing pre/ post test to measure the students' creative writing skills. It was administered to the participants before and after the experiment. The mean scores of the pre and post administrations of the test were treated statistically. Findings of the study showed a significant difference between the mean scores of both groups in the creative writing skills test, in favour of the experimental group. There was also a statistically significant difference at 0.01 level between the mean scores of the experimental group in the pre-post administrations of the creative writing skills test, in favour of its post-administration. Moreover, RAFT strategy had a large effect size on all the required creative writing skills and on each of the required skills, thus achieving the aims of the study.
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