An intervention to discourage Australian mothers from unnecessarily exposing their babies to the sun for therapeutic reasons.
J Trop Pediatr
; 59(5): 403-6, 2013 Oct.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-23751251
ABSTRACT
Parents play a key role in children's sun-protective behaviour, with good sun-protective habits established early tending to be sustained. We designed a maternity hospital-based educational intervention to reduce myths that could result in mothers intentionally sunning their babies. Interviews were conducted with two cross-sections of healthy post-partum inpatients in the maternity ward of a large regional public hospital. The first group (n = 106) was recruited before the commencement of educational in-services for maternity nursing staff; the second group (n = 203) was interviewed after the last staff in-service session. More pre-intervention than post-intervention women reported they would expose their baby to sunlight to treat suspected jaundice (28.8% vs. 13.3%; p < 0.001) or help their baby's skin adapt to sunlight (10.5% vs. 2.5%; p = 0.003). Fewer post-intervention women indicated they would sun themselves to treat breastfeeding-associated sore/cracked nipples (7.6% vs. 2%; p = 0.026). This educational intervention should be used to educate parents, health professionals and students.
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Assunto principal:
Luz Solar
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Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde
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Educação de Pacientes como Assunto
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Cuidado do Lactente
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Mães
Tipo de estudo:
Evaluation_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
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Newborn
País como assunto:
Oceania
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2013
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Article