OBJECTIVES: To explore whether mothers currently express concerns @entity4837 and perceive it as a serious condition; if so, to identify factors influencing these perceptions; and to elicit maternal recommendations for improved health care interactions. DESIGN: Ethnographic interviews using grounded theory methods. Audiotaped data were transcribed and analyzed for themes using a qualitative data analysis software program. SETTING: University and community hospitals. @entity1 : Forty-seven Spanish- and English-speaking breastfeeding mothers of otherwise healthy @entity1 with a diagnosis of @entity4837 and treated in inpatient and/or outpatient settings. INTERVENTIONS: None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Qualitative descriptions of maternal experiences with @entity4837 . RESULTS: Mothers continued to voice concerns about @entity1087 and perceive it as serious. They expressed misconceptions, wished to have @entity1087 explained further, and offered suggestions to improve communications with medical staff. Guilt was common, with mothers believing that they had caused the @entity1087 . Mothers voiced alarm about the yellow skin and discomfort about @entity1087 management and worried about perceived short- and long-term effects. Maternal perceptions were exacerbated by cultural differences, language barriers, and subtlety of language and its meaning. Key factors in creating perceptions of @entity1087 as serious included unexpectedness of and lack of knowledge about @entity1087 , quality of information received, levels of intervention, and prolonged duration of illness and yellow color. Interactions with health care professionals and other mothers with personal experience with @entity1087 were important mediators in the way mothers reacted to information. CONCLUSION: Practitioners need to address these persisting misconceptions and concerns @entity4837 with mothers.

Persistence of maternal concerns surrounding XXXX : an exploratory study.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['infants', 'PARTICIPANTS'] @entity1087 :: ('MESH:D007565', 'Disease') :: ['jaundice'] @entity4837 :: ('MESH:D007567', 'Disease') :: ['about neonatal jaundice', 'neonatal jaundice']
@entity4837 :: (MESH:D007567,Disease) :: ['neonatal jaundice']
