bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The association of maternal food intake and infants' and toddlers' food intake
Authors: Hart C. N. , Raynor H. A. , Jelalian E. , Drotar D. 
Published: March 2010

AbstractBackground  Young children's first experiences with food may influence development of food preferences and lifelong eating habits. However, little is known about what factors are associated with the development of eating behaviours in infants and toddlers. Studies with older children and adolescents suggest that parental food intake is associated with children's food intake. The purpose of the present paper is to determine whether this association starts even earlier during infancy and toddlerhood.Methods  A convenience sample of n= 98 primarily African American mothers of children 6–18 months old completed questionnaires, including questions on their own and their young child's food intake. Mothers completed questions while waiting to be seen by their child's primary care provider.Results  Per maternal report, children consumed fruit 2.45 (1.79) times, vegetables 1.63 (1.51) times and snack foods 2.22 (2.49) times each day. Infants' and toddlers' fruit (r= 0.54, P < 0.001), vegetable (r= 0.42, P < 0.001) and snack food (r= 0.37, P < 0.001) intake were significantly associated with maternal intake of each of these foods, respectively. These significant associations remained even after controlling for additional study variables.Conclusion  Even at very young ages, maternal food intake is an important correlate of children's food intake. Taken together with findings documenting significant snack food consumption in this age group, findings suggest that development of prevention and intervention programmes to enhance healthy eating behaviours need to start very early, perhaps just prior to children being introduced to complementary foods.
Child involvement in the paediatric consultation: a qualitative study of children and carers' views
Authors: Taylor S. , Haase‐Casanovas S. , Weaver T. , Kidd J. , Garralda E. M. 
Published: March 2010

AbstractBackground  This study aimed to investigate child and carers' attitudes towards child involvement in paediatric consultations.Methods  Semi‐structured qualitative interviews explored child and carers' attitudes towards child involvement at different stages of the paediatric consultation process. Twenty families (21 children, 17 mothers and 5 fathers) were interviewed following a paediatric (index) consultation in two UK paediatric inpatient and outpatient departments.Results  All but one family felt the child should be involved at some stage of the consultation process but the desired extent and nature of involvement depended on child, family and illness characteristics, as well as on the stages of the consultation. During history gathering, some parents and children felt it was the decision and responsibility of the parent to facilitate communication between the child and the doctor. Others expected the doctor to decide when and how to facilitate this process. At diagnosis the desired amount of information given to the child increased with increasing maturity in the child. Some felt making a diagnosis should be a collaborative process; others felt it was solely the domain of the doctor. In discussing and making a treatment plan, some children wanted to be given the choice of being involved and some wanted their parents to be responsible for implementing the plan. Some families with a seriously ill child, however, wanted the burden of involvement in the management plan taken away from them.Conclusions  Families vary in their views about involvement of children in paediatric consultations in a way that may be unique to each child, family and illness. Moreover, different views were expressed about involvement in each stage of the consultative process and in management of the child's health. The challenge for doctors is to determine the level of involvement and information exchange favoured by a particular parent and child. Good practice recommendations emerging from the analysis are described.
Plant and veterinary disease diagnosis: a generic approach to the development of field tools for rapid decision making?
Authors: King D. P. , Ferris N. P. , Tomlinson J. A. , Boonham N. 
Published: March 2010

Rapid and accurate diagnostic tests make an important contribution to programmes to monitor and eradicate infectious diseases that impact animal and plant health. Using foot‐and‐mouth disease (FMD) and sudden oak death as examples, this review outlines recent progress to develop new field tools for detection of the infectious agents that cause high‐impact livestock and plant diseases. The principal driver for this work is to develop tools that can be used locally to assist in decision making. Advances in this area have developed simple‐to‐use lateral‐flow devices for the detection of FMD virus and the genus Phytophthora (including Phytophthora ramorum, the causal agent of sudden oak death and the related pathogen P. kernoviae), as well as new hardware platforms to allow PCR testing for these agents by non‐specialists in the field. Although developed for different diseases, the user requirements for rapid diagnostic tools for FMD and sudden oak death share many similarities. Using generic solutions to these challenging problems, it is now possible to imagine a new paradigm for how the collection and testing of samples to monitor the spread of important livestock and plant diseases might be achieved.
Arm Exercise Promotion Scale: instrument validation
Authors: Cheng Sue‐Yueh , Tu Shih‐Hsin , Yang Ya‐Ling , Chen Ching‐Shyang , Liao Yuan‐Mei , Hsiang Chao‐Ying , Chen Ching‐Min 
Published: March 2010

cheng s.‐y., tu s.‐h., yang y.‐l., chen c.‐s., liao y.‐m., hsiang c.‐y. & chen c.‐m. (2010) Arm exercise promotion scale: instrument validation. Journal of Advanced Nursing 66(5), 1142–1150.AbstractTitle.  Arm exercise promotion scale: instrument validation. Aim.  This paper is a report of psychometric testing of the Arm Exercise Promotion Scale.Background.  Patients with breast cancer having mastectomy are taught postoperative arm exercises during hospitalization; however, clinical observations suggest that patients infrequently practise them. It is important to develop an instrument that can be easily applied to evaluate women’s motivation for arm exercises.Method.  An instrument validation design with a cross‐sectional survey was conducted during 2008–09. The previously developed 15‐item Likert‐type Arm Exercise Promotion Scale was further tested for test–retest reliability, internal consistency reliability, theoretically supported construct validity, and concurrent validity. A total of 94 patients with breast cancer were recruited to the study.Results.  The Arm Exercise Promotion Scale has satisfactory internal consistency reliability (Cronbach’s alpha 0·88) and a test–retest reliability of 0·90. Three theoretically supported factors were abstracted by principal component analysis: perceived benefits, learning support and situational support. These factors were inter‐correlated and statistically significantly correlated with arm exercise behaviour, indicating concurrent and construct validity.Conclusion.  There is strong evidence to further support the Arm Exercise Promotion Scale as a valid instrument in assessing factors which promote arm exercises with patients with breast cancer. Future longitudinal clinical studies using this scale could add knowledge about the experiences of carrying out arm exercises in patients with breast cancer across time.
Effects of antenatal education on maternal prenatal and postpartum adaptation
Authors: Serçekuş Pınar , Mete Samiye 
Published: March 2010

serçekuş p. & mete s. (2010) Effects of antenatal education on maternal prenatal and postpartum adaptation. Journal of Advanced Nursing 66(5), 999–1010.AbstractTitle.  Effects of antenatal education on maternal prenatal and postpartum adaptation. Aim.  This paper is a report of a study of the effects of antenatal education on prenatal and postpartum adaptation in a Turkish context.Background.  Although there have been a number of studies on the effects of antenatal education on pregnancy, childbirth and parenthood, the evidence of its effectiveness is limited and equivocal. There is insufficient evidence regarding the effects of antenatal education on prenatal and postpartum adaptation and whether individual or group education is more beneficial.Methods.  A Roy Adaptation Model‐based quasi‐experimental study with 120 nulliparous women was conducted between 2006 and 2008. Two experimental groups received either group education or individual education; the control group received standard care. Data were collected using a demographical data form and Lederman’s prenatal and postpartum self‐evaluation questionnaires.Findings.  While there were statistically significant differences between the groups in terms of prenatal adaptation, no difference was found in postpartum adaptation. Post hoc analysis showed that women in the experimental groups (individual and group education) were better adapted in the prenatal period compared with those in the control group.Conclusion.  Roy’s adaptation model may be useful as a guide in prenatal adaptation programmes. Group antenatal education might be preferred over individual education because it is less costly.
Multifaceted ergonomic intervention programme for community nurses: pilot study
Authors: Szeto Grace Pui Yuk , Law Ka Yee , Lee Edwin , Lau Titanic , Chan Shuk Ying , Law Sheung‐Wai 
Published: March 2010

szeto g.p.y., law k.y., lee e., lau t., chan s.y. & law s.‐w. (2010) Multifaceted ergonomic intervention programme for community nurses: pilot study. Journal of Advanced Nursing 66(5), 1022–1034.AbstractTitle.  Multifaceted ergonomic intervention programme for community nurses: pilot study. Aim.  This paper is a report of a pilot study conducted to investigate the effect of a tailor‐made ergonomic intervention programme for community nurses.Background.  The nursing profession is known to be a high risk group for work‐related musculoskeletal disorders. Community nurses are at risk as they have to travel to patients’ homes and work in varied environments daily. Their occupational risk factors are unique and intervention strategies need to be specially designed to address these issues.Method.  The study was conducted from August 2007 to September 2008 in Hong Kong with community nurses from three hospitals. The intervention group (n = 14) received a multi‐faceted ergonomic intervention programme over an 8‐week period, with group training, onsite individual training, equipment modification, exercise programme, typing and computer workstation advice. The control group (n = 12) received no interventions. Both groups had baseline and follow‐up assessments, which included musculoskeletal symptoms, perceived risk factors and functional outcome and physical mobility measures.Results.  The intervention group showed statistically significantly improved symptom scores and neck and upper limb functional outcomes at postintervention. The control group showed no change in symptom or functional outcomes.Conclusion.  A multifaceted intervention programme may be more effective than interventions that mainly focus on ergonomic training and could be considered by community or home care nursing groups in other countries. The programme was based on risk assessment and may be a useful reference for other nursing groups in other countries.
The legitimacy of rest: conditions for the relief of burden in advanced dementia care‐giving
Authors: De La Cuesta‐Benjumea Carmen 
Published: March 2010

de la cuesta‐benjumea c. (2010) The legitimacy of rest: conditions for the relief of burden in advanced dementia care‐giving. Journal of Advanced Nursing 66(5), 988–998.AbstractTitle.  The legitimacy of rest: conditions for the relief of burden in advanced dementia care‐giving. Aim.  This paper is a report of a study conducted to identify the conditions that favour the relief of the burden of female caregivers of relatives with advanced dementia.Background.  Respite services are a response to caregivers’ needs for rest. Although they are wanted and needed services, caregivers do not always have access to or use them. The need for a caregiver‐centred approach to relieving the burden of care is a conclusion which respite researchers are increasingly reaching.Method.  Grounded theory was chosen as the research strategy. Twenty‐two female primary caregivers of relatives with advanced dementia participated in semi‐structured interviews between November 2006 and May 2008 in Spain. Data collection was guided by the emergent analysis and ceased when no more relevant variations in the categories were found.Findings.  While having a rest is legislated as a right in civil and religious laws in family care in Spain, it should meet certain conditions that in the caregiver’s eyes legitimate it. In the present study these were: (i) when there is no abandonment, (ii) when others are not harmed, (iii) when having a rest is obligatory and (iv) when having a rest is acknowledged.Conclusion.  Many caregivers experience ambivalence over accepting respite. Nurses should assess caregivers’ situations and promote context‐specific interventions and a relief of burden free from guilt. Exploration of the conditions that favour the relief of burden within other cultural and caregiver groups is recommended.
Nurses’ practices in pharmacotherapy and their association with educational level
Authors: Dilles Tinne , Stichele Robert Vander , Van Rompaey Bart , Van Bortel Lucas , Elseviers Monique 
Published: March 2010

dilles t., stichele r.v., van rompaey b., van bortel l. & elseviers m. (2010) Nurses’ practices in pharmacotherapy and their association with educational level.Journal of Advanced Nursing 66(5), 1072–1079.AbstractTitle. Nurses’ practices in pharmacotherapy and their association with educational level.Aim. This paper is a report of a study of the association between educational level and nurses’ practices in pharmacotherapeutic activities in three clinical settings.Background. The preparation and administration of medication are at the core of nursing practice, and nurses’ involvement in pharmacotherapy is essential to medication safety. Nursing strategies to improve patient adherence to treatment and to identify adverse drug reactions have been described, but nurses’ practice patterns in monitoring adherence and adverse drug reactions remain undocumented.Methods. A cross‐sectional correlational survey design was used. Data were collected between 2005 and 2007. Each year, the focus was on a different setting. Nurses were selected by convenience sampling: 260 worked in nursing homes, 82 in community care services and 1070 in hospitals. Questions focused on the provision of medication information, observation of patient medication adherence and identification of adverse drug reactions during the preceding month.Results. Involvement in providing drug information varied considerably, from 50% among hospital nurses to 82% among nurses in community care services. Statistically significantly fewer nurses observed non‐adherence in hospitals (50%) than in the other settings (about 80%). Between 40% and 49% of the nurses had observed an adverse drug reaction. Nurses’ information‐seeking behaviour and problem responses also varied according to setting. Bachelor’s degree holders were 35% more likely than diploma holders to have observed an adverse drug reaction.Conclusion. Nurses assume considerable pharmacotherapeutic responsibilities. Practice patterns are codetermined by the healthcare setting and nurses’ educational level.
The lived experience of moving forward for clients with spinal cord injury: a Parse research method study
Authors: Chen Hsiao‐Yu 
Published: March 2010

chen h.‐y. (2010) The lived experience of moving forward for clients with spinal cord injury: a Parse research method study. Journal of Advanced Nursing 66(5), 1132–1141.AbstractTitle.  The lived experience of moving forward for clients with spinal cord injury: a Parse research method study. Aim.  This study is a report of a theory of Humanbecoming‐guided study of the lived experience of moving forward among people with spinal cord injury.Background.  Most people with spinal cord injuries take a long time to recover and return to their previous life activities. Moving forward is connected with the choices people make about what is important, what to do, and how to live life in ways they value. Parse’s Theory of Humanbecoming is a human science theory, and its overall aims are to improve the quality of life for clients and their families.Method.  The Parse research method was used to explore the lived experience of moving forward for 15 clients with spinal cord injuries recruited from two Spinal Injury Associations in Taiwan in 2007. Data were collected and analysed through the processes of participant selection, dialogical engagement, extraction‐synthesis and heuristic interpretation, as proposed by Parse.Findings.  The core concepts found were confronting difficulties, going on and finding self‐value and confidence, and co‐creating successes amid opportunities and restrictions. Thus, the structure of the lived experience of moving forward is confronting difficulties, going on and finding self‐value and confidence to affirm one’s self while co‐creating successes amid opportunities and restrictions.Conclusion.  This study contributes to nursing theory‐guided knowledge development from a humanbecoming perspective on the experience of moving forward among clients with spinal cord injury, and informs rehabilitation nurses who use the Humanbecoming theory as a guide to practice to promote moving forward.
Changes in skin mucus of common carp, Cyprinus carpio L., after exposure to water with a high bacterial load
Authors: Van Der Marel M , Caspari N , Neuhaus H , Meyer W , Enss M‐L , Steinhagen D 
Published: March 2010

AbstractWater in aquaculture systems may contain a high load of microorganisms. Reduction in overall bacterial tank water load improves fish health and growth parameters. In this study, the effect of an increase of overall bacterial load in tank water on carp skin mucus was assessed. Intracellular and released high molecular weight glycoproteins (HMGs) of carp skin mucus were analysed for changes using histological, histochemical and biochemical techniques. Increase of bacterial load did not induce obvious clinical responses in carp, but the skin of exposed carp responded quickly. The amount of skin mucus HMGs isolated increased as well as their total glycosylation. An increased goblet cell number was observed for all carbohydrate stainings, but most clearly for acidic glycoconjugates. A change in the terminal presence of some sugars was also seen. After the initial response of carp, an adaptation to the higher bacterial load in the water appeared to occur as mucins had a higher glycosylation. The changes observed suggest that these skin mucus adaptations are part of a primary defence mechanism of mucosal epithelia, even at a low pathogenic pressure.
First description of atypical furunculosis in freshwater farmed Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L., in Chile
Authors: Godoy M , Gherardelli V , Heisinger A , Fernández J , Olmos P , Ovalle L , Ilardi P , Avendaño‐Herrera R 
Published: March 2010

AbstractWe report the first isolation, identification and characterization of a group of Chilean strains of atypical Aeromonas salmonicida isolated from freshwater farmed Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar. Affected fish showed superficial ulcers and pale liver with or without petechial haemorrhages. Outbreaks of the disease occurred in two farms in the south of Chile about 2200 km apart. Five strains were isolated in pure culture and identified by serological assays and immunofluorescence tests as belonging to Aeromonas salmonicida. Although the bacterial isolates were phenotypically homogeneous, minor differences with the reference strain A. salmonicida subsp. salmonicida ATCC 33658 were noted. Three specific primer sets and partial 16S rRNA gene sequencing allowed the identification of the Chilean isolates as atypical A. salmonicida, with A. salmonicida subsp. achromogenes and A. salmonicida subsp. masoucida as their closest relatives (100% sequence similarity). Molecular typing indicated that the atypical isolates belong to two genetic groups that were associated with the geographical origin.
Evaluation of executive functioning in people with intellectual disabilities
Authors: Willner P. , Bailey R. , Parry R. , Dymond S. 
Published: March 2010

AbstractBackground  Executive functioning (EF) is an important concept in cognitive psychology that has rarely been studied in people with intellectual disabilities (IDs). The aim of this study was to examine the validity of two test batteries and the structure of EF in this client group.Methods  We administered the children's version of the Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome (BADS‐C) and the Cambridge Executive Functioning Assessment (CEFA) for people with ID, to 40 participants who attended day centres for people with mild to moderate learning disabilities [mean full‐scale intelligence quotient (IQ) = 59]. The BADS‐C consists of six EF subtests while the CEFA contains eight EF (including two executive memory) subtests and four memory subtests. IQ and receptive language ability were also assessed. The results were subjected to principal components analysis, and regression analysis was used to examine the relationship of the ensuing factors to other cognitive variables.Results  Scores on both sets of EF tests were only weakly related to receptive language ability, and even more weakly related to IQ. Scores on the BADS‐C were substantially lower than predicted from the published norms for people in higher IQ ranges, and many participants scored zero on three of the six subtests. This potential floor effect was less evident with scores on the CEFA. Principal components analyses produced one usable factor for the BADS‐C, and two factors for the CEFA that differed in both the extent of involvement of working memory and the predominant sensory modality. A combined analysis of the subtests retained from both analyses produced three factors that related uniquely to aspects of IQ and memory.Conclusions  The CEFA is suitable for use with people with mild to moderate learning disabilities, whereas the BADS‐C is at the lower limit of usability with this client group. The lower‐than‐expected scores observed on the BADS‐C may indicate that people known to learning disability services may be more impaired than people of comparable IQ not known to services. The structure of EF seen in people with IDs closely resembles a model of EF in the general population that has received a broad level of support.
Host range of an invasive moth, Phyllonorycter leucographella
Authors: Walczak U. , Baraniak E. , Jerzak E. 
Published: March 2010

AbstractWe examined the host range of an invasive small moth, Phyllonorycter leucographella in two plant collections in Poland. A total of 248 species, varieties and cultivars of the subfamily Maloideae were sampled. We found that only 75 of them were attacked by Ph. leucographella. As many as 68 novel host plants are reported for the first time. However, the infestation of these plants is usually much lower than its primary host, Pyracantha coccinea.