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Research roundup: June 2024

This new study analysed the outcomes of using an Infant–Toddler Checklist (ITC)...

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When stopping taking antidepressants, the risk of experiencing one or more discontinuation (withdrawal) symptoms such as dizziness, headache, nausea, insomnia and irritability is 15%, according to a...

Dental health of cleft patients attending the 18-month-old clinic at a specialised centre

The Cleft Registry and Audit Network (CRANE) database, set up by the Department of Health in 2000, forms part of the national clinical audit run by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) Clinical...

Considerations around Gillick competence in healthcare

» Along with maturity and intelligence will also be the professional's own ability to assess whether the child can understand aspects of choices to be made « .

A higher education institution's response to the NMC Standards for Student Supervision and Assessment

‘Practice assessors need to be prepared and supported to facilitate students to recognise and analyse complexity and the judgments, decisions and actions required for practice at increasingly high...

A content analysis of mothers' online communications of their partner's paternal postnatal depression

Following the data collection and analysis, two themes relevant to health visiting practice were produced..

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Research roundup: May 2024

Due to its widespread applications in various fields, antibiotics are continuously released into the environment and ultimately enter the human body through diverse routes. The authors of this study...

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The children's cancer charity, the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust (CHECT), is highlighting the crucial role health visitors can play in the early diagnosis retinoblastoma, a rare form of eye cancer..

A guide to lupus

» Severe lupus may be treated with immunosuppressants or other drugs used more rarely, such as immunoglobulin and cyclosporin A « .

Fathers' experiences of the Maternal and Early Childhood Sustained Home visiting (MECSH) programme: A service user's perspective

The Maternal and Early Childhood Sustained Home visiting (MECSH) programme is a structured model of health visiting designed for families needing additional support through targeted or specialist...

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Professional perspectives on dietary practices and nutrition from pre-conception to birth: An exploratory study

There are missed opportunities to establish consistent health foundations, but nutrition and diet during pre-conception and pregnancy can have a substantive impact on health and wellbeing during...

Research roundup: April 2024

This US study explored key environmental resources and their effect on the healthy cognitive, socio-emotional and neurological development of a child in their first 3 years of life..

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Ameasure of obesity in children and adolescents that could replace body mass index (BMI) has been identified in a new study as waist circumference-to-height ratio. This detected excess fat mass and...

Stammering in children

It is recognised that many individuals who stammer have greater levels of empathy and compassion for others, strength of character and resilience « .

How did the Covid-19 pandemic affect wellbeing of staff working in child and family teams?

The study adopted an evaluative, mixed-method design which involved two datasets. First, a quantitative secondary analysis of anonymised routine patient data was drawn from the past 5 years as a...

Reducing the environmental impact of inhalers in primary care

The primary aim of this review was to establish how to implement sustainable inhaler changes without compromising patient care and disease control in the primary care setting. This includes a review...

Promoting vaccination uptake

» The strategy focuses on four core components that are required to maintain elimination going forward, which includes achieving and sustaining 95% coverage « .

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‘A significant loss of expertise’ – campaign to reverse 'steep decline' in school nurses

A campaign for a school nurse in every school has been launched in a bid to reverse a ‘steep decline’ that has seen a 33% fall in the number of school nurses since 2009. A new report – based on a...

Research roundup: March 2024

This study aimed to quantify the characteristics of children under the age of 2 years admitted to neonatal units (NNUs) and paediatric intensive care units (PICUs). The researchers conducted a study...

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The total number of children, adolescents and adults worldwide living with obesity has surpassed one billion, according to a global analysis published in The Lancet. These trends, together with the...

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