Advances in Nursing & Midwifery
Volume:29 Issue: 3, Autumn 2020

The prevalence of eating disorders in the general population appears to be on the rise. Binge eating disorder (BED) is characterizedby frequent consumption of unusually large amounts of food. Child binge eating is an important aspect of children, now getting researchers and treatment professionals’ attention. The study was aimed at assessing the child bearing women’s knowledge and attitude toward health implications of child binge eating in a Nigerian rural community.

The research was descriptive study that employed cross sectional design. Cluster method was used as a sampling procedure, and Census sampling was employed in selecting the entire child bearing women in the four selected clusters. The ethical approval for the research was obtained fromKebbi State Health Research Ethical Committee. The instrument for data collection was researcher constructed, structured, self-administered questionnaire. Data were presented in frequency and percentages. Fisher’s exact test statistical analysis was used for inferential analysis at 99% Confidence Interval.

Majority of the respondents were knowledgeable on health implication of child binge eating in most of the questions. The questions in which majority demonstrated lack of knowledge were questions 1, 2 and 4 (67.6%, 66.9%, and 50.8%) respectively. Majority of the respondents were having negative attitude toward health implication of child binge eating. There wasno statistical significant association between all the respondents’ demographic variables and the respondents’ attitude toward health implication of child binge eating; P > 0.01.

Child binge eating as one of the factors that contribute to the development of chronic, psychological, sociological and mental diseases need to be given more attention,, and awareness about it be given to the people. Healthcare workers should provide approachesby which the attitude of child bearing women toward child binge eating will be changedto positive

The division of child-care tasks is a criticalelement of the family system that has already received considerable attention from researchers and practitioners. The psychological and relational dynamics involved in coping together and sharing in their roles as parents with young children are at the forefront ofthis study. The purpose of this research was to determine the predictors of child-care task division and shared parenting attitudes in families with youthful children.

This was a cross-sectional study.The study population wasconsisted of couples with at least one three years childor younger. The couples were selected by a random sampling method. Data were collected using the Child Care Tasks and Shared Parenting Attitudes in Families Scale and an additional form for demographic characteristics of participants. The CCTS was designed to measure what percentages of times specific child-care tasks are completed by the mother alone, the father alone, and parents together. Respondents were asked to estimate the percentages for eachtask jointly. The alpha coefficient for the total CCT was 0.74. A total of 177 parent couples self-completed the instruments. This procedure took approximately 20–30 minutefor each study participant.Predictor variables of the study were mother’s age, father’s age, mother’s education level, father’s education level, mother’s occupation, father’s occupation, monthly income, number of children, age of the youngest child, and gender of the youngest child. Pearson’s correlation, factor,and reliability analyses, paired t-tests, multiple regression analyses were used CCT.

Mothers spent a more significant proportion of their time completing independently child-care tasks than fathers.Considering all child-care tasks together, the average percentages oftime that couples’estimated mothers spent on child-care tasks were between 40 and 60%, fathers’average percentages were 20 to 40%, and parents worked together approximately 20 to 40% in completing the tasks. Parenting goals of employedmothers were similar to their partners. Also, employedmothers were flexible with their partners regarding the division of child care.

Demographic variables of the couples and their child were significant predictors for CCT and shared parenting attitudes in families. It is possible that mothers who tend to share this responsibility feel a greater sense of commitment to their families.

Skills-based health education isusefulin the promotion of health behaviors. Preparing for puberty is essential for adolescents. This study aimed to assess the effects of a skills-based education on girls' knowledge, attitudes, and practice about health in puberty.

This was an experimental study on 80 female school students in Tehran, Iran. Two groups of forty participants were randomly designated as the experimental and control in two different high schools in Tehran. A skills-based education program trained the experimental group,and a routine lecture-based education taught the control groupabout health in puberty. Data was collected using a questionnaire that assessed the participants' knowledge, attitudes, and practice about health in puberty; before, immediately after, and two months after the education.

Knowledge and attitude were significantly improved in the skills-based education group comparing to the Lecture-based group, immediately after (P = 0.002 and P = 0.045, respectively) and twomonths after the interventions (P <0.001 and P = 0.034, respectively). Both methods were not effective in improving practice.

Skills-based health education is more effective than the routine lecture-based education on improving knowledge and attitudes about puberty in health.

Patient safety is the precious core in the healthcare organizations aimed at minimizing adverse events and eliminating preventable damages. This study aimed at determining the rate of observation of safety standards of ICU patients by nurses before and after implementation of a training program.

This quasi-experimental single-group study was conducted in two phases: observation of nursing performance related to patient safety and the implementation of a corrective training program. In the first phase, 4104 cases of nursing care related to patient safety performed by 54 ICU nurses were observed using chronological sampling. The same samples, i.e., 4104 nursing care performed by the same nurses, were used in the second phase of the study after implementing the training program. The data collection instrument was a valid and reliable researcher-made 76-item questionnaire consisting of 12 categories about nursing care related to patient safety. The corrective training program focused on nursing care related to patient safety. The gleaned data were analyzed with SPSS18 using descriptive statistics and non-parametric Wilcoxon signed-rank tests.

The rate of correspondence between nursing care and the checklist was 44.32 % before the intervention, which increased to 95.61% after intervention by a 51.29% increase.

Implementation of the corrective intervention effectively promotespatient safety as a training program for nurses. The healthcare system's managers and authorities can reduce the damages sustained by patients and decrease treatment costs by concentrating on periodic supervision and continuous education programs to improve patient safety

Childbirth requires several changes in the function of the uterus and cervix. Today, various methods are used to prepare the cervix. Ripening of the cervix is one of the most factors in a successful delivery. This study aims to compare the effects of vaginal misoprostol tablet with vaginal evening primrose capsule on cervical ripening in nulliparous women with term pregnancy.

This study was a randomized clinical trial of a sokor conducted on 100 nulliparous women referred to Pasteur Hospital and Prenatal Clinic of University of Medical Sciences of Bam, 40 weeks to 40 weeks±6 days gestational age with Bishop Score less than 4. The women were selected by convenient sampling based on random numbers divided into two groups, evening primrose (1000 mg vaginal evening primrose capsules) and misoprostol (25 micrograms of vaginal misoprostol tablets). The data was collected by demographic and midwifery questionnaire, follow-up form, Bishop's checklist, fetal movement registration form, and daily record. Data were analyzed by SPSS20 software, independent t-test, Mann-Whitney, Chi-square, and Linear by Linear. In all of the tests, P < 0.05 was considered.

Bishop’s score at admission in the evening primrose group was 1.84 ± 0.88versus 0.78 ± 0.66 in the misoprostol group (P < 0.001). The two groups had significant differences in terms of dilatation and cervical consistency during admission. The dilatation in the evening primrose group significantly increased, and cervical consistency was considerably softer in the misoprostol group (P < 0.05).

It seems that evening primrose is more effective on cervical ripening and dilatation.

King’s Conceptual Model and Goal Attainment Theory can applicate as an effective framework in all fields of nursing such practice, education, management and research. The purpose of this study was to evaluate effectiveness of nursing interventions based King's theory.

In this systematic review, the databases as Scopus, Web of Sciences, Pub Med and search engine of Google Scholar have been searched. Then the review has been done in terms of the study criteria, and merely 10 articles have met the criteria.

Our findings indicate, the common form of theory that has been applied in articles was goal attainment theory, except in one case. In 40% of the articles, the theory was used in educational fields and 60% were related to the clinical area.

According to this systematic review, King's Conceptual System and Theory of Goal Attainment has the potential to give an effective approach for nursing practice and it is recommended that this framework can be used in differentclinical situations to attract the patients to better compliance, leading to an improvement in quality of life and reduce complications in patients.