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PubMed1996

Maternal and non-maternal time-allocation to infant care, and care during infant illness in rural Java, Indonesia.

An estimated 60% of women in Central Java are engaged in income-generating work. This study addresses the manner in which mothers allocate time to infant care as well as to household maintenance and employment. The study investigates the time-allocation to infant care by non-maternal carers, both among infants whose mother is involved in income-generating work and among infants whose mother is not employed. The longitudinal study followed 60 households, one infant per household, of the age range 3-25 months (mean infant age over the course of the study was 13.8 months). Each household was visited every 7 to 10 days from February 1991 through June 1991. One observation day and two separate recall-days were recorded per month. Daily time allocation (6 a.m. to 6 p.m.) to infant care by the mother and other individuals, frequency and minutes of breastfeeding, and infants' non-breastmilk kilocalorie intake were recorded. In addition, mothers recorded any infant symptom(s) on a daily calendar provided to them, and this symptom-data and information on any treatments and/or help-seeking for the infant was collected every 7-10 days. One or more non-maternal caretaker participated in infant care on 90% of the total sample days, for a median of 3 hr 15 min (mean 3 hr 50 min per day), and participated in infant feeding on one-third of all sample days. Grandmothers, sisters, and fathers of the infants were the most important in terms of time allocated to infant care. One or more sister cared for the infant on 30% of total sample days (mean 180 min, median 150 min, 5-645 min), the father on 55% of sample days (mean 90 min, median 65 min, 5-600 min), and grandmother(s) on 32% of sample days (mean 160 min, median 130 min, 5-670 min). Non-maternal care was also substantial during days of symptom-reporting; other carers participated in infant-care on 84% of days, and fed the infant on 28% of days. The study findings suggest that health education messages related to infant care and feeding could be usefully targeted to other persons in addition to mothers. Infant care on symptom-free days were compared to symptom-days using Wilcoxon matched-pair test within each data-collection month (round). While no significant differences were found for the time-allocation to infant care by the mother or others on symptom-days compared to symptom-free days, there was a mean 25% lower non-breastmilk kilocalorie intake on symptom-days (P = 0.00) in four of five data-collection rounds. Mothers reported that lack of appetite accompanied other symptom(s) on 46% of the days of help-seeking in the modern sector. This reflects the mothers' concern for infant appetite in association with illness.

Adult↗
PubMed2000

Maori infant care practices: implications for health messages, infant care services and SIDS prevention in Maori communities.

This paper uses findings from the Maori section of a multiethnic infant care practices (ICP) study undertaken in Auckland, New Zealand/Aotearoa, in 1998. It aims to increase understanding of present day Maori infant care practices in order, firstly, to inform infant health message and service delivery to Maori and, secondly, to understand the context of practices that comprise modifiable risk factors for SIDS. Publicity about modifiable SIDS risk factors since the early 1990s brought about a significant reduction in the national SIDS rate but the Māori rate reduced more slowly and in 1998 was still three times that of non-Māori. The ICP study was a qualitative study that, for the Māori section, involved seven focus groups and a one-on-one interview comprising 26 caregivers of under 12 month old infants. This paper focuses on five selected areas explored within the ICP study: sources of support, customary practices, infant feeding, infant sleeping arrangements and smoking. It discusses both valued infant care norms and factors that inhibit changes known to reduce SIDS risk. It argues that valued practices need recognition in order to make messages effective. It also challenges the emphasis on individual behaviour change as the primary means to reduce SIDS risk and argues that there is a need to extend prevention strategies beyond simple behaviour change messages to include structural change to reduce 'non modifiable' risk factors.

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Cree infant care practices and sudden infant death syndrome.

OBJECTIVE: To identify contemporary Cree infant care practices and any risk factors associated with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. METHODS: A questionnaire conducted and recorded in the homes of 70 Cree women (83% of sample available) with infants under 12 months of age, living full time on a Cree reserve. Participatory observation was also used with mothers who agreed to demonstrate certain features of Cree infant care. FINDINGS: 70% of mothers initiated breast-feeding and 43% nursed from 6 to 15 months. Cree infants are tightly swaddled and placed in a supine position for sleeping. Prenatal care is seldom utilized because of cultural beliefs that planning ahead constitutes bad luck during birth or results in deformed infants. CONCLUSIONS: Existing infant care practices include several that are considered protective to an infant in terms of reducing vulnerability to SIDS. Swaddling infants in very warm houses and smoking during pregnancy could contribute to a higher SIDS incidence.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2003

Family physicians increase provision of well-infant care despite decline in prenatal services.

Over the past 20 years, family physicians and general practitioners (FP/GPs) and pediatricians have upheld their commitment to preventive care for infants. Non-Metropolitan Statistical Areas (non-MSAs) depend on family physicians for almost one half of their well-infant care. FP/GPs have increased their overall provision of well-infant care despite a decline in delivery of prenatal services. This commitment to child health care demands continued excellence of family physician training in pediatric medicine, preventive care, and child advocacy.

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First-time mothers' and fathers' transition to parenthood: infant care self-efficacy, parenting satisfaction, and infant sex.

The threefold purposes of our study were to determine differences between first-time mothers' and fathers' development of infant care self-efficacy and parenting satisfaction, relationships between mothers' and fathers' infant care self-efficacy and parenting satisfaction, and the effect of infant sex on the development of mothers' and fathers' infant care self-efficacy and parenting satisfaction during the first 4 months following the infant's birth. A convenience sample of 44 couples in a midwestern state completed the Demographic Questionnaire, the Infant Care Survey, and What Being the Parent of a New Baby is Like-Revised. Fathers' reports of infant care self-efficacy increased linearly during the first 4 months following the infant's birth while mothers' reports of infant care self-efficacy increased linearly during the first 3 months. At all data collection times, fathers reported significantly lower infant care self-efficacy than mothers. Reports of parenting satisfaction increased over time for mothers and fathers. At 8, 12, and 16 weeks following the infant's birth, mothers' infant care self-efficacy scores were significantly related to their parenting satisfaction scores. Fathers' infant care self-efficacy scores were significantly related to their parenting satisfaction scores at 12 and 16 weeks. Fathers of male infants had significantly higher parenting satisfaction scores than fathers of female infants at 12 and 16 weeks following the infant's birth. Nurses can develop individualized interventions to assist mothers and fathers during the transition to parenthood.

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PubMed1988

Productivity and selected indicators of care in maternity and infant care and children and youth projects according to sponsorship.

Bureau Common Reporting Requirements (BCRR) data tapes for Fiscal Year 1980 were analyzed to determine whether the type of sponsoring agency influenced the productivity or indicators of care of Maternity and Infant Care and Children and Youth Projects. Sponsors were classified as either health department or non-health department, health department or major medical center, or public or private in three separate sets of analyses. Some of these analyses indicated that special projects that were either health department or public agency sponsored were more likely to have more non-medical patient encounters and more health education and social work staff for a given level of expenditures. Although publicly sponsored projects employed fewer physician equivalents than did the non-public projects, those physicians were more productive. Despite these differences in encounters, staffing, and utilization of physicians, there were no differences in available measures of the process of care between categories of projects in any of the analyses.

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