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In prenatal education, pregnant women's knowledge is a crucial issue for protecting pregnant women and newborns healthy. Therefore, prenatal education has become a basic and essential program for each pregnant woman. However, most of the current prenatal education courses are taught via a group teaching approach, which makes it difficult for pregnant women to think deeply about relevant birth issues due to the lack of interaction and context. This may in turn have an impact on childbirth choice and clinical judgment.
Background: The transition to parenthood is stressful for first-time mothers and fathers and links to adverse health outcomes. Despite Internet use's popularity, an effective web-based, individually-tailored intervention to enhance parental self-efficacy and infant health for first-time parents remains lacking. Objectives: This study aims to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a web-based, individually-tailored childbirth and parenting intervention program on parenting self-efficacy and infant health outcomes. The feasibility and acceptability of a theory-driven intervention will be examined in first-time mothers and fathers. Methods: A two-arm, single-blind randomized controlled trial will be conducted to investigate the effects of web-based intervention in the first-time mother and father. Participants will be randomly allocated to a web-based intervention or a control condition. A repeated measurement will be performed. Anticipatory results: The efficacy of a theory-driven web-based, individually tailored intervention program will provide a valuable contribution to perinatal health care for first-time mothers and fathers.
Pregnants who underwent a web-based preparation for labor program, which was developed based on the health belief model and supported by motivational interviews, had a higher perception of birth self-efficacy than those who did not pass. Pregnant women who underwent a web-based preparation for labor program, which was developed based on a health belief model and supported by motivational interviews, had a more positive perception of birth than those who did not pass. The level of fear experienced at birth is lower in pregnant women who underwent a web-based preparation for labor program, which was developed based on the health belief model and supported by motivational interviews. The frequency of voluntary cesarean delivery is lower in pregnant women who undergo a web-based preparation for labor program, which is developed based on the health belief model and supported by motivational interviews. The frequency of episiotomy is lower in pregnant women who undergo a web-based preparation for labor program, which is developed based on a health belief model and supported by motivational interviews. Induction frequency is lower in pregnant women who underwent a web-based preparation for labor program, which was developed based on the health belief model and supported by motivational interviews, than those who did not pass. Pregnants who underwent a web-based preparation program for labor, which was developed based on the health belief model and supported by motivational interviews, had a shorter delivery period than those who did not pass.
The quadratus lumborum block (QLB) was first described by Blanco. it is a compartment block procedure during which a local anesthetic is injected into the muscle plane of the quadratus lumborum (QL) muscle under ultrasound guidance Currently, QLB is divided into four types based on the injection point of the local anesthetic: lateral, anterior, posterior, and intramuscular QLB. QLB is widely used for various types of abdominal surgeries (
Seaweeds have been part of the diet of Asian countries for thousands of years, but consumption by Quebecers remains unfamiliar. Because of their rich nutrients content and unique bioactive compounds, seaweeds have a great dietary potential. The overall objective of the project is to determine the potential for sustainable local exploitation of St. Lawrence seaweeds by assessing their quality under growing conditions and following processing, and to use them as a basis for culinary innovations for both industry and consumers. Our specific objectives are as follows: 1. To assess the impact of environmental factors on the specific profile of biomarkers of nutritional quality and health potential of harvested or cultivated seaweed; 2. To determine the impact of processing on the profile of biomarkers of nutritional quality and health potential of harvested and cultivated seaweed; 3. To study changes in dietary attitudes and behaviours through a culinary workshop promoting the acceptance of seaweeds and their appropriation as an ingredient by consumers. The application for ethical approval and this trial registration applies only to Specific Objective 3.
Besides coping with the diagnosis, people with multiple sclerosis have to make complex decisions such as deciding about immunotherapies. They search not only for factual information, but also for reports of patient experiences (PEx). The investigators aim to evaluate in a randomised controlled pilot trial whether a website presenting PEx as an adjunct to factual information may help people with multiple sclerosis in their immunotherapy decision-making processes.
As most adolescents visit a healthcare provider once a year, health behavior change interventions linked to clinic-based health information technologies hold significant promise for improving healthcare quality and subsequent behavioral health outcomes for adolescents (Baird, 2014, Harris, 2017). Recognizing the potential to leverage recent advances in machine learning and interactive narrative environments, the investigators are now well positioned to design health behavior change systems that extend the reach of clinicians to realize significant impacts on behavior change for adolescent preventive health. The proposed project centers on the design, development, and evaluation of a clinically-integrated health behavior change system for adolescents. CHANGEGRADIENTS will introduce an innovative reinforcement learning-based feedback loop in which adolescent patients interact with personalized behavior change interactive narratives that are dynamically personalized and realized in a rich narrative-centered virtual environment. CHANGEGRADIENTS will iteratively improve its behavior change models using policy gradient methods for Reinforcement Learning (RL) designed to optimize adolescents' achieved behavior change outcomes. This in turn will enable CHANGEGRADIENTS to generate more effective behavior change narratives, which will then lead to further improved behavior change outcomes. With a focus on risky behaviors and an emphasis on alcohol use, adolescents will interact with CHANGEGRADIENTS to develop an experiential understanding of the dynamics and consequences of their alcohol use decisions. The proposed project holds significant transformative potential for (1) producing theoretical and practical advances in how to realize significant impacts on adolescent health behavior change through novel interactive narrative technologies integrated with policy-based reinforcement learning, (2) devising sample-efficient policy gradient methods for RL that produce personalized behavior change experiences by integrating theoretically based models of health behavior change with data-driven models of interactive narrative generation, and (3) promoting new models for integrating personalized health behavior change technologies into clinical care that extend the effective reach of clinicians.
This study evaluates the effects of a postpartum intervention in increasing the maternal well-being and self-efficacy of Italian women in the first one to six months after childbirth, as well as in reducing postpartum depression and stress. The intervention will use the motivational interviewing against high levels of daily stress. One third of participants will be exposed to a 3,5 hours group intervention approximately 1 month after delivery, one third will be exposed to an individual intervention in the same period and one third will receive no intervention. Participants will be followed with stress and depression questionnaires.
The killing of young black men by police officers is a major public health issue and is a clear health disparity. Black men are 21 times more likely to be fatally shot by a police officer than white men. Homicide is the second-leading cause of death of black males, ages 15-34. It is disconcerting to consider that this statistic includes homicide by police officer. Pediatricians have an opportunity to contribute to violence prevention efforts and social justice advocacy for young black men in regards to interactions with police officers. We seek to engage residents in social justice advocacy by preparing them to discuss safely navigating police encounters with young black males. Adverse police encounters can result in poor mental health outcomes, physical trauma, and death. We will develop a conversation script with input from existing expert resources, black male youth, and their caregivers. The script will be patient-centered and will be used to facilitate a conversation about safely navigating encounters with police officers. Utilizing a train-the-trainer model, attending pediatric physicians will be trained to use the script in their practice as well as model and demonstrate how to use the script for pediatric residents. We hypothesize that pediatric residents trained in the conversation script will be empowered to facilitate discussions on safely navigating police encounters in the primary care clinic setting and will exhibit increased comfort and greater levels of self-efficacy from baseline measures.