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Introduction: Healthy initiation of life is essential in establishing the foundations of a healthy nation. Traditional care practices at home and in the community inevitably affect maternal and young infant health. The objective is to study young infant nurturing practices and factors influencing these practices in rural Agra. Material and Methods: This is a community-based cross-sectional study that was conducted in rural Agra, using a multi-stage random sampling method. A total of 240 mothers were interviewed using a structured questionnaire. Results: The study results showed that 65.0% of the mothers were following either satisfactory (58.3%) or good (6.7%) nurturing practices. Of the three components of nurturing, the majority (61.6%) of mothers had satisfactory (46.6%) or good (15%) breastfeeding practices, most (86.6%) were giving satisfactory (56.6%) or good (30%) thermal care and only 53.33% were following satisfactory (42.2%) or good (10.8%) hygiene practice. The practice regarding newborn care was found to have a significant association with the place of birth, type of delivery and educational status of the mothers and fathers. Conclusion: This study outcome shows the need for a better awareness and educational outreach program coupled with an effective health-care delivery system to improve young infant nurturing practices in achieving better health.
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Objective:To understand the needs of mothers with gestational diabetes mellitus(GDM) for nurturing care for 0-3 years old offspring, so as to provide reference for constructing gestational diabetes mothers′ foster care framework.Methods:Purposive sampling method was used to select 10 GDM mothers from January to August 2021 in the outpatient department of children′s health care, the First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University. Using phenomenological research methods semi-structured interviews were used to collect data, and Colaizzi content analysis was used to analyze the data.Results:The nursing needs of GDM mothers can be divided into 4 themes: disease risk guidance needs, professional care guidance needs, accessible child care service needs and emotional and psychological support needs.Conclusions:It is great important to pay attention to the care needs of GDM mothers for their 0-3 years old offspring. At the same time, Understanding the care needs of GDM mothers can promote the physical and mental health of offspring of gestational diabetes mothers, provide them with professional and personalized care guidance and services. Effectively improve the nurturing and caring ability of GDM mothers, so as to better promote the health of infants and young children.
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Background:Investing in parents and children during the critical period between birth and five years of a child‟s life can have long-lasting benefits in the life of the child. Recently, the 2016 Lancet Series estimated that 250 million children aged less than five years in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) are at risk of not reaching their developmental potential. Over 66 % of these, who live in sub-Saharan Africa and are at risk due to poor nutrition, exposure to poverty, high HIV prevalence as well as under stimulation in the home environment. Methods:The study will employ a cluster-randomized control trial design and will use a mixed-methods approach combining quantitative and qualitative methodologies (Concurrent Triangulation Design).This will be a two-arm study, where the first arm will participatein the parenting empowerment program implemented by the faith-based organizations, while the second (control) will not receive the parenting interventions. A total of 510 mother/primary caregiver-child dyads will be recruited into this study. We will estimate the causal effect of the intervention using mixed linear models and the Difference-in-Differences (DID) estimator.Conclusions: This implementation research will provide greater scientific rigor and a deeper process and outcome evaluation including measurement of child development outcomes. The findings will be useful for early childhood practitioners, multilateral stakeholders and funders as they provide information on the factors to consider in the implementation of high quality ECD interventions.Trial Registration:Ethical approval: ESRC P467/2018 and IRB No.00005948)
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OBJECTIVE: Association between home environment and the behavioral and neurocognitive development of children from a community childcare center for low-income families was examined (aged 6 to 12 years, n=155). METHODS: The parents performed a questionnaire on home environment (K-HOME-Q) to assess home environment including parenting attitude and the Child Behavior Checklist (K-CBCL). The children performed the Wechsler Intelligence (IQ) Scale, Stroop interference test (Stroop), word fluency test (WF), and design fluency test (DF) to assess their neurocognitive development. RESULTS: ‘Nurturing of Development’ and ‘Variety of Language Interaction’ scores from the K-HOME-Q, were inversely associated with total behavior problems, externalization, rule-breaking, and aggressive behavior subscales of K-CBCL, and ‘Emotional atmosphere’ and ‘Tolerance toward the child’ scores showed inverse associations with the total behavior problems, rule-breaking, aggressive behavior, and withdrawn/depressed subscales. Despite economic hardship, the mean scores of the neurocognitive tests were comparable to the average level of Korean children’s normative sample. However, ‘Nurturing of Development’ and ‘Tolerance toward the Child’ score of K-HOME-Q were associated with better executive function (IQ, WF, DF). CONCLUSION: These results suggest that parental stimulation of development and tolerant parenting attitude may offer protection against the negative effects of suboptimal economic environment on children’s behavior and neurocognitive development.
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[Objective]To study the meaning of“shengsheng”theory in traditional culture and its reflection in Huangdi Neijing, and elaborate its edification and importance of the life nurturing in modern life.[Methods]The literature retrieval, literature review and other research methods were used to sum up the connotation of“shengsheng”(natural growth). [Results]‘Shengsheng’has rich meanings, including change and variation, continuous reproduction in an endless succession, the unity of human and nature. The theory mainly reflects in Huangdi Neijing in the aspects as fol ows: take appropriate activities and exercises, nurture the life based on the individuals and the syndromes, consider people foremost, focus on the quality of life, conform to the laws of nature because of the correspondence between man and universe.[Conclusion]‘Shengsheng’theory has profound reflections on Huangdi Neijing’s life nurturing theory, and it has an important significance to the modern life nurturing science.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the educational needs of a mother when nurturing children from neonates to the schoolage. A total of 657 subjects responded to the survey about the level of educational needs when nurturing children. The subjects of the study constituted of 401 mothers who visited the health center for immunization and 256 mothers who visited the pediatric outpatient department or whose children were hospitalized in pediatrics. This instrument had 64 items about nurturing children from neonates to the schoolage and one item had a score range of one to four. In data analysis, SPSSWIN 9.0 program was utilized for descriptive statistics. The results were as follows. 1) Mothers who had the neonates represented the highest educational needs about parental-neonates attachments with 3.47 of mean score compared to neonatal convulsion(3.44), management of common colds(3.44), nutrition(3.44), fever control (3.42). 2) Mothers who had infancy represented the highest educational needs about management of common colds with 3.34 of mean score compared to psychosocial developments (3.23), management of foreign bodies (3.22), feeding the food(3.19), playing with the infant(3.16). 3) Mothers who had toddlers represented the highest educational needs about psychosocial developments with 3.35 of mean score compared to discipline for children(3.34), management of teeth (3.29), management of common colds (3.21), management of accidents(3.20). 4) Mothers who had the a child in preschool represented the highest educational needs about psychosocial developments with 3.53 of mean score compared to management of accidents(3.23), discipline for children (3.00). 5) Mothers who had the child in secondary school represented the highest educational needs about psychosocial developments with 3.42 of mean score compared to management of teeth(3.13), management of accidents (3.05).