Child health service's response to early feeding and behaviour problems: changes in parental perceptions 1970-93

Magnusson, Maria; Mj, Garrett; Sundelin, Claes

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“…Three items about feeding, food refusal and sleep (questionnaire) had been used in the same wordings in a previous study [24]. "Have you been unsure regarding your child's feeding?"…”

Section: Household Chores and Workload (Questionnaire)mentioning

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Utilization of child health services, stress, social support and child characteristics in primiparous and multiparous mothers of 18-month-old children

Lagerberg

Magnusson

2013

Scand J Public Health

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Aim: Traditionally, the child health services have laid emphasis on first-time mothers.Some researchers have argued that the needs of multiparous mothers must be considered equally important. The aim of this paper was to analyse parity-related characteristics in pairs of mothers and 18-month-old children. Methods:The study was population-based and cross-sectional. 586 primiparous mothers and 821 mothers with at least one previous child completed a questionnaire. Additional information was extracted from the child health records by the nurses. Data were collected in 2002-2003 and 2004-2005. Results: Compared to multiparous mothers, primiparous mothers had a higher utilization of child health services. Multiparous mothers scored higher on parental incompetence stress and felt that their work load was more demanding. Multiparous mothers reported less social support, particularly in practical respects such as baby-sitting. They considered their interaction with the child as less satisfactory than did primiparous mothers; their children participated less in shared reading and had a more restricted vocabulary. Fewer multiparous mothers assessed their own and their child's total situation as very good. Conclusion:The child health services should develop competence and methods to support multiparous mothers and alleviate their workload when caring for several children.

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“…Three items about feeding, food refusal and sleep (questionnaire) had been used in the same wordings in a previous study [24]. "Have you been unsure regarding your child's feeding?"…”

Section: Household Chores and Workload (Questionnaire)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Utilization of child health services, stress, social support and child characteristics in primiparous and multiparous mothers of 18-month-old children

Lagerberg

Magnusson

2013

Scand J Public Health

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“…Feeding and sleeping problems are common in this age span, and parents often ask the CHC nurse for help (Magnusson, Garrett, & Sundelin, 1999). These problems should not, because of their commonness, be neglected.…”

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Can a Child-Problem Focused Intervention Reduce Mothers' Stress?

Östberg¹,

Hageküll²,

Lindberg³

et al. 2005

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SYNOPSISObjective. This study investigates if a child-problem focused intervention could reduce stress related to parenting. Design. Mothers (n = 33) seeking help from a specialist child health center for their child's sleeping or feeding problems were compared to mothers (n = 66) with a child of the same sex and age but without contact with the clinic. The two groups were equal regarding level of stress before intervention contacts started. The intervention consisted of individualized treatment strategies. Results. The intervention was connected with a significantly larger reduction in the general stress level in the intervention group than in the comparison group. Intervention mothers increased their competence, reduced their experience of being restricted by parental responsibilities, and increased their satisfaction with their spousal relationship after the intervention more than mothers in the group without intervention contacts. Child-related problems were also significantly reduced in the intervention group. Conclusions. This study supports the importance of early interventions to help parents cope with everyday problems such as child sleeping and feeding problems.

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Stability and prediction of parenting stress

Östberg

Hageküll

Hagelin

2007

Infant and Child Development

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The study focused on stability and prediction of parenting stress experiences over a 6-year period. Mothers ðN593Þ who had received a clinical intervention for feeding or sleeping problems during infancy (Time 1; T 1) were followed-up when the children were 5-10 years old (Time 2; T 2). An age-and sex-of-child matched normal group was used for comparison of stress levels at T 2. Parenting stress was measured by the Swedish Parenthood Stress Questionnaire, which consists of a general parenting stress scale and sub-scales tapping different aspects of parenting stress experiences. T 1 predictors were clinical assessments of child problem load, maternal unresponsiveness, and family psychosocial problems. T 2 predictors were mother-reported concurrent child problem load and psychosocial problems. The individual stability in stress experiences was moderate. Effect sizes indicated that mothers with early clinical contacts had reduced their stress to levels close to those in the normal sample. Parenting stress at T 2 could be predicted from early and from concurrent child and family problems. The results point to the relevance of early clinical assessments and to the importance of a sub-area approach in parenting stress research, as there were differences between stress sub-areas regarding both prediction and stability.

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Child health service's response to early feeding and behaviour problems: changes in parental perceptions 1970-93

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Utilization of child health services, stress, social support and child characteristics in primiparous and multiparous mothers of 18-month-old children

Utilization of child health services, stress, social support and child characteristics in primiparous and multiparous mothers of 18-month-old children

Can a Child-Problem Focused Intervention Reduce Mothers' Stress?

Stability and prediction of parenting stress

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