Testing Guidelines for Child Health Care Nurses to Prevent Nonsynostotic Plagiocephaly: A Swedish Pilot Study12
The aim of the study is to test effectiveness of guidelines for nurses that can be incorporated into the child health care program to prevent nonsynostotic plagiocephaly (NSP) in infants while still following sudden infant death syndrome-preventive recommendations. When guidelines were followed as intended in a Swedish pilot study, only 8.5% of infants had some degree of NSP at 6 months, compared to 25.6% of infants in the comparison group. Results indicate that the early and regular implementation of these guidelines by nurses may be an effective way to prevent NSP.
Key words: Infant-adapted pillow, Occipital flattening, Nonsynostotic plagiocephaly, Sudden infant death syndrome
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1 Previous presentation: The study was presented as a thesis for Master of Science in Nursing degree and was defended on May 25, 2009, for an opponent and a group of 10 other individuals at the University of Skövde, School of Life Sciences, Sweden. Several revisions have been made in the manuscript since May 25th.
2 Author information: Freda Lennartsson, American and (recently became a) Swedish citizen, born and raised in Pennsylvania, USA; graduated from the University of Delaware, College of Nursing in December, 1976; moved to Sweden 1977; became a pediatric nurse specialist 1984 and a public health nurse specialist 1993; has primarily lived and worked in Sweden as a nurse since 1977; also volunteer pediatric nursing work at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, Moshi, Tanzania 1985–1986; school health project for Save the Children Sweden at the Asfaw Yemiru School in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 1988–1990; currently employed part time as a clinical nurse specialist at Götene's Child Health Care Center and working 1 day per week at the University of Skövde School of Life Sciences as a co-opted nursing instructor; completed studies for Master of Science in Nursing degree in 2009.
PII: S0882-5963(10)00111-9
doi:10.1016/j.pedn.2010.04.005
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