Parent power

Barker, Walter

doi:10.7748/ns.4.28.43.s50

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“…This friendship clearly benefited the mothers involved in the study. This is supported by Barker (1990), in the United Kingdom, who suggests that befriending can break through barriers and fears that keep some families isolated, enabling links to be made with necessary services. Julnes et al .…”

Section: Friendship and Motherhoodmentioning

confidence: 93%

‘She has made me feel human again’: an evaluation of a volunteer home-based visiting project for mothers

Taggart

Short

Barclay

2000

Health &Amp; Social Care in the Community

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For analysis of respiratory system mechanics the very complex structure of the respiratory system is strongly simplified to a simple resistance-compliance-model. While for most patients this simplification seems sufficient, in patients with pulmonary disease this model is inappropriate. Additionally, to regional inhomogeneity throughout the lung, large volume accelerations due to the strongly decreased respiratory system compliance together with a mass increase of the patients' lungs, i.e. an increased respiratory system inertance Irs, result in a significant inertive pressure contribution. The aim of this study was to develop a physical inertance model, and its description by conventional methods of respiratory monitoring. Its parameters are adjustable within the physiological range, with Irs between 0.06 and 0.2 mbar.s2.l-1. The model proved well with static and dynamic analysis of respiratory system parameters. Using our physical model it is possible to evaluate new methods of respiratory monitoring and to investigate experimentally the interrelationship of respiratory system parameters.

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Section: Friendship and Motherhoodmentioning

confidence: 93%

‘She has made me feel human again’: an evaluation of a volunteer home-based visiting project for mothers

Taggart

Short

Barclay

2000

Health &Amp; Social Care in the Community

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“…The focus on empowerment was even more explicit in other work, where public health nurses, and later experienced mothers, were used as home visitors sharing knowledge and information with the mother, who remained very much the decision maker in relation to her own child. Such mothers showed an increase in self esteem as well as an increased use of community resources (Barker, 1990). The Community Mother's Programme to be discussed in this article is very much in this tradition.…”

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Supporting mothers: Issues in a Community Mothers Programme

O’Connor

2001

Community, Work & Family

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Community mothers' programme: randomised controlled trial of non-professional intervention in parenting.

Johnson

Howell

Molloy

1993

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Objective-To see whether non-professional volunteer community mothers could deliver a child development programme to disadvantaged first time mothers for children aged up to 1 year.Design-Randomised controlled trial. Setting-A regional health authority in Dublin. Subjects-262 first time mothers who were delivered during six months in 1989 and who lived in a deprived area of Dublin; 30 experienced mothers from the same community recruited as community mothers.Interventions-All the first time mothers received standard support from the public health nurse. In addition, those in the intervention group received the services of a community mother, who was scheduled to visit monthly during the first year ofthe child's life.Results-232 (89%) first time mothers completed the study-127 in the intervention group, 105 controls. At the end of the study children in the intervention group were more likely to have received all oftheir primary immunisations, to be read to, and to be read to daily, played more cognitive games; and were exposed to more nursery rhymes. They were less likely to begin cows' milkc before 26 weeks and to receive an inappropriate energy intake and inappropriate amounts of animal protein, non-animal protein, wholefoods, vegetables, fruit, and milk.Mothers in the intervention group also had a better diet than controls. At the end of the study they were less likely to be tired, feel miserable, and want to stay indoors; had more positive feelings; and were less likely to display negative feelings.Conclusion-Non-professionals can deliver a health promotion programme on child development effectively. Whether they can do so as effectively as professionals requires further study.

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Abstract: The Child Development Programme is becoming increasingly known as a radically different form of health visiting and is now operating in more than ten per cent of the 200 health authorities in the United Kingdom.

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‘She has made me feel human again’: an evaluation of a volunteer home-based visiting project for mothers

‘She has made me feel human again’: an evaluation of a volunteer home-based visiting project for mothers

Supporting mothers: Issues in a Community Mothers Programme

Community mothers' programme: randomised controlled trial of non-professional intervention in parenting.

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