Quality of life of mothers and families caring for preterm infants requiring home oxygen therapy: A brief report

McLean, Andrew J.; Townsend, Aloen L.; Clark, Jack A.; Mg, Sawyer; Baghurst, Peter; Haslam, RR; Whaites, L

doi:10.1046/j.1440-1754.2000.00561.x

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“…In the quasiexperimental study, there were only eight participants in the treatment group (Shu & Lung, 2005). Eleven studies used the SF-36 to measure HRQOL (Allik et al, 2006;Da Costa et al, 2006;Eker & Tuzun, 2004;Foster et al, 1998;MacArthur et al, 2002;McClean et al, 2000;Morrell et al, 2000;Nicholson et al, 2006;Reid et al, 2002;Rudolph et al, 2005;Yamazaki et al, 2005). Individual studies used the SF-12 (Salsberry et al, 1999), the Dartmouth COOP charts (Nuwagaba-Biribonwoha et al, 2006), or the WHOQOL-BREF (Shu & Lung, 2005).…”

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Health-Related Quality of Life of Mothers: A Review of the Research

Coyle

2009

Health Care for Women International

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To determine what is currently known about health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of mothers and the factors that influence it, I conducted a review of the research based on a search of the literature from 1997 to 2006. Seventeen studies met the following inclusion criteria: (1) measured physical and emotional health; (2) focused on the mother; (3) published between January 1997 and December 2006. Researchers found that maternal demands (maternal or child health or disability), environmental elements (poverty, social support), and selected interventions impact HRQOL in mothers. Synthesis of study results was limited by research design, sample size, nature of comparison groups, cultural specificity, and measurement issues. Future research is needed to describe HRQOL in mothers without special demands, to identify sociodemographic factors that impact HRQOL and to test interventions to improve HRQOL in mothers.

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Section: Characteristics Of the Studiesmentioning

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Health-Related Quality of Life of Mothers: A Review of the Research

Coyle

2009

Health Care for Women International

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“…Provision of supplementary oxygen at home allows earlier discharge from hospital but can adversely affect a family's quality of life [9] . Infants requiring supplementary oxygen at home have the most severe lung disease, as evidenced by their need for hospital readmission in the first 2 years after birth being twice that of those with BPD who are not home oxygen dependent [7] .…”

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Long-Term Pulmonary Outcome in the Preterm Infant

Greenough

2008

Neonatology

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Chronic respiratory morbidity is common following premature birth, particularly if complicated by the development of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Affected infants can remain oxygen dependent for many months and frequently require hospital readmission in the first 2 years after birth. Troublesome, recurrent respiratory symptoms requiring treatment are common in prematurely born children, especially those who had BPD. The most severely affected may remain symptomatic and have evidence of airway obstruction even as adults. The studies examining adolescents and adults usually report patients who had ‘classical’ BPD, that is they often had had severe respiratory failure in the neonatal period with chronic pulmonary fibrosis and airway smooth muscle hypertrophy. Nowadays, infants are described as having ‘new’ BPD, developing chronic oxygen dependence despite initially minimal or even no respiratory distress. Affected patients, however, have reduced alveolarisation and experience deterioration in lung function over the 1st year after birth. It is essential to determine if they have ‘catch up’ and identify which strategies impair and most importantly promote lung growth in this very-high-risk population.

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“…Results of a small study, in which a standardised questionnaire was used, suggested that mothers of premature infants receiving home oxygen therapy had less vitality and more mental health problems than mothers of infants not receiving home oxygen therapy [6]. Our results demonstrate that a policy of greater use of home oxygen for CLD infants neither increased the risk of readmission nor the cost of care at follow-up.…”

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