A5039900862- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Infant Health and Development
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Infant Nutrition and Health
- Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Early Childhood Education and Development
Duke University
2014-2023
Duke University Hospital
2001-2023
Duke Medical Center
2001-2023
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1994-2022
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
2017-2022
Health and Human Development (2HD) Research Network
2022
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2020-2022
University of Alabama at Birmingham
2017-2022
Malcolm Grow Medical Clinic
2021
Kaman (United States)
2021
Objective: This longitudinal, descriptive study described the level of depressive symptoms in mothers preterm infants from birth through 27 months corrected age and examined factors associated with symptoms. The framework for was guided by an ecological developmental systems perspective adaptation Preterm Parental Distress Model. Methods: In this model, we hypothesize that a mother's emotional distress to parenting prematurely born child is influenced personal family factors, severity...
To examine inter-relationships among stress due to infant appearance and behavior in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), parental role alteration NICU, depressive symptoms, state anxiety, posttraumatic daily hassles exhibited by African-American mothers of preterm infants determine whether there were subgroups based on patterns psychological distress.One hundred seventy-seven completed questionnaires their distress at enrollment during hospitalization 2, 6, 12, 18, 24 months after...
Background: With recent advances in medical and nursing care, many high-risk infants are surviving the neonatal period with severe, life-threatening chronic illnesses, resulting extended hospitalizations and/or frequent rehospitalizations long periods of dependence on technology for survival. Objective: To describe factors predicting maternal adjustment mothers caring medically fragile infants. Method: Subjects were (n = 67) whose had a serious illness requiring hospitalization Data this...
Abstract This study's purpose was to examine whether child characteristics, illness severity, maternal psychological well‐being, and paternal support influenced interactions between 108 premature infants their mothers. Mothers with singletons or more infant stress showed positive involvement. less stress, education, participation in caregiving by fathers negative control. First‐time mothers of provided developmental stimulation. Children younger White social behaviors. Less education shorter...
Abstract Depressive symptoms may compromise the ability of low‐income Latina mothers with limited English language proficiency to parent their infants or toddlers. Eighty Early Head Start were randomized an advanced practice nurse‐delivered, culturally tailored, in‐home psychotherapy intervention, usual care. Repeated measures regression analysis showed a significantly greater decrease in depressive for intervention compared care group at 22 and 26 weeks (4 post intervention). Intervention...
Abstract Life course theory, a sociological framework, was used to analyze the phenomenon of becoming mother, with longitudinal narrative data from 34 women who gave birth prematurely after high‐risk pregnancy, and whose infant became medically fragile. Women faced challenges mistimed mothering technologically dependent infant. Before social ties were established, legal biological required mothers make critical decisions about their infants. Liminality characterized mothers' early...
This study examined factors associated with postpartum depressive symptoms in mothers premature infants the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).A total of 113 new very low-birth-weight their initial NICU admission were recruited from 2 urban hospitals servicing low-income minority communities.This employed a cross-sectional design.Data collected during infants' and included maternal demographic information (eg, age, education, race, living baby's father), infant illness severity...
PURPOSE To examine 5 infant characteristics and health factors that might be risk for necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in preterm infants. SUBJECTS One hundred thirty-four infants at high NEC because of either having a birth weight <1500 g or requiring mechanical ventilation birth. DESIGN Descriptive secondary analysis using data from larger longitudinal study. METHODS Weekly review infants' medical record until discharge; demographic questionnaire completed by mothers the time enrollment;...
Very preterm (VP) infants are at risk for poor oral feeding endurance, early cessation of eating, fluid management with aspiration risk, behavioral distress, and unstable heart rate (HR) oxygenation during feeding.The study aims to determine the preliminary effectiveness a coregulated approach (CoReg) VP lung disease.A randomized, within-subject, cross-over design was used 20 requiring oxygen start feeding. Infants were bottle-fed by Usual Care CoReg on two consecutive days an average four...
Background: Depressive symptoms and clinical depression are highly prevalent in low-income mothers negatively affect their infants toddlers. Objectives: The aim of this study was to test interpersonal psychotherapy combined with parenting enhancement on depressive behavior, compared an equal attention-control condition. Methods: Mothers (n = 226) Early Head Start toddlers from the southeastern northeastern United States were randomized intervention delivered in-home by psychiatric mental...