Journal article
Caring for crying babies: A mixed-methods study to understand factors influencing nurses' and doctors' management of infant colic
J McGann, J Manohar, H Hiscock, D O'Connor, J Hodgson, F Babl, V Sung
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health | WILEY | Published : 2018
DOI: 10.1111/jpc.13858
Abstract
Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the barriers and enablers influencing the uptake of two recommendations from a tertiary paediatric hospital's clinical practice guidelines by maternal and child health nurses (MCHNs) and emergency department (ED) doctors: (i) explaining normal crying; and (ii) avoiding attributing crying to gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR) and limiting anti-reflux medication use. Methods: The study was designed as 1-h focus group discussions, guided by the Theoretical Domains Framework, and a short questionnaire, with a purposive sample of MCHNs and ED doctors in Victoria, Australia in (March to September) 2015. Analyses were conducted by inductive content analysis ..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
The authors thank the participating maternal and child health nurses and the emergency department staff members at The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. V Sung is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Early Career Fellowship (1125687) and The Royal Australasian College of Physicians Cottrell Research Establishment Fellowship and was supported by a Melbourne Children's Campus Clinician Scientist Fellowship. FE Babl's time was partly funded by a grant from the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation, Melbourne, Australia. H Hiscock is supported by an Australian National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Career Development Award (Grant 607351). Infrastructure support was provided by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program.