This is a process evaluation of the RCT, Group Antenatal Care and Delivery project (GRAND) to identify and document patient, provider, and system barriers and facilitators to program implementation.
Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, potential and actual influences on the quality and conduct of the program's operations, implementation, and service delivery were identified.
Only the seven (7) sites randomized to the Group ANC (G-ANC) intervention were included for collection of process evaluation data since the evaluation was of G-ANC implementation.
Data were collected from August 2019 to November 2020 and included both quantitative and qualitative data sources.
Zielinski R, Kukula V, Apetorgbor V, Awini E, Moyer C, Badu-Gyan G, et al. (2023) “With group antenatal care, pregnant women know they are not alone”: The process evaluation of a group antenatal care intervention in Ghana. PLoS ONE 18(11): e0291855. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291855
Mobile obstetric emergency system (MORES) is a promising intervention to enhance communication between rural health facilities and hospitals and to improve maternal and newborn outcomes.
Lee, H., Dahn B., Sieka, J., Nyanplu, A., Reynolds, C., Edson, C., Lockhart, N., & Lori, J. The use of a mobile obstetric emergency system (MORES) to improve obstetric referrals in Bong County, Liberia: A pre/post study. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. (2023) http://doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.15175
Please refer to the "README.txt" for more details., MATLAB R2018a (Mathworks, Natick, MA, USA) was used to process this data., and Excel (Microsoft Office) was used to store survey data on the comfort of both systems and also to provide absolute and relative intraobserver variablities for the DM device.
Comparison of anorectal function measured using wearable digital manometry and a high resolution manometry system Attari A, Chey WD, Baker JR, Ashton-Miller JA (2020) Comparison of anorectal function measured using wearable digital manometry and a high resolution manometry system. PLOS ONE 15(9): e0228761. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228761
Patients included in this study were all males with no prior HIV diagnosis between 18 and 45 years who had at least one primary care encounter between March 2016 and March 2019. We chose 2016 as the index year because the question of the sexual partners’ gender became coded data elements with the clinic contact. Eligible patients were grouped based on reported sexual partners at the most recent disclosure. Individuals who reported having a male sexual partner or both a male and female partner were included in the MSM group. The non-MSM group included individuals who reported only a female partner or no partner. Patients who did not answer the question were excluded from the study. The study proposal was submitted to the Institutional Review Boards of the University of Michigan Medical School and was exempted from ongoing IRB review (HUM00155091). Individual consent was waived for this study.
We conducted a search through BioMed Central's 54 medicine and public health journals that provide OPR documentation in order to identify systematic review papers published in 2017. For each article we determined if OPR data, reviewer and author comments, were accessible. If so, we assessed the search methodology and reporting quality of the search process with a grading rubric based on PRISMA and PRESS standards, and then mined peer reviewer comments for references to the search methodology.
The research adheres to PRISMA-HARM recommendations for systematic reviews. The reproducible search strategies for all databases, the citation export files from all databases, and the eligibility screening decisions are included in the dataset.
Haydar B, Baetzel A, Elliott A, MacEachern M, Kamal A, Christensen R. Adverse Events During Intrahospital Transport of Critically Ill Children: A Systematic Review. Anesth Analg. 2019. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1213/ANE.0000000000004585
This data is a subset of that originally produced as part of an effort to characterize GnRH neuron activity during prepubertal development in control and PNA mice and investigate the potential influences of sex and PNA treatment on this process (1). It was later used in (2) to further investigate the firing patterns of GnRH neurons in these categories of mice and determine how these patterns might differ based on age and treatment condition.
The data files can be opened and examined using Wavemetric's Igor Pro software. Code used to further examine and visualize the data can be found at https://gitlab.com/um-mip/mc-project-code.
This research was supported by National Institute of Health/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development R01 HD34860 and P50 HD28934.
(1) Dulka EA, Moenter SM. Prepubertal development of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neuron activity is altered by sex, age and prenatal androgen exposure. Endocrinology 2017; 158:3941-3953
(2) Penix JJ, DeFazio RA, Dulka EA, Schnell S, Moenter SM. Firing patterns of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons are sculpted by their biology. Pending.
Dulka EA, Moenter SM. Prepubertal development of gonadotropin-releasing hormone neuron activity is altered by sex, age and prenatal androgen exposure. Endocrinology 2017; 158:3943-3953. https://dx.doi.org/10.1210%2Fen.2017-00768 and Penix JJ, DeFazio RA, Dulka EA, Schnell S, Moenter SM. Firing patterns of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons are sculpted by their biology. Pending.
Infant eating behavior is likely driven not only by hunger and satiety reflective of caloric need, but also by the reward value of food. The reward value of food can be understood in terms of wanting, liking, and salience. Little is understood about infant response to the reward value of food, or its predictors, particularly prenatally. This project sought to understand whether prenatal factors during pregnancy predict infant reward response to food, as measured by questionnaires in early infancy.
Healthy full-term infants were enrolled in a longitudinal study designed to examine the development of infant eating behavior. Infant weight and length was measured, mothers completed questionnaires regarding infant eating behaviors, and infants were weighed and length measured at ages 1, 2, 4, 6 and 10 months. Trajectories of eating behaviors were identified using latent class growth modeling and bivariate analyses examined associations of infant eating behavior trajectory membership with infant and maternal characteristics. Cross-lagged analyses examined associations between BEBQ subscales and infant weight-for-length z-score.
Harlan McCaffery, Julie Zaituna, Sophie Busch, Niko Kaciroti, Alison L. Miller, Julie C. Lumeng, Katherine L. Rosenblum, Ashley Gearhardt, Megan H. Pesch, Developmental trajectories of eating behaviors and cross-lagged associations with weight across infancy, Appetite, 2023, 106978
Healthy full-term infants were enrolled in a longitudinal study designed to examine the development of infant eating behavior. Infant weight and length was measured, mothers completed questionnaires regarding infant eating behaviors, and infant sucking behavior was quantified using the NFANT device during a typical feeding. The predictive value of the NFANT-generated sucking metrics for infant weight gain was evaluated.
Feldman, Keith, Katharine Asta, Ashley N. Gearhardt, Julie M. Sturza, Danielle Appugliese, Alison L. Miller, Katherine Rosenblum, Kai Ling Kong, Amanda K. Crandall, and Julie C. Lumeng. "Characterization of a Vigorous sucking style in early infancy and its predictive value for weight gain and eating behaviors at 12 months." Appetite (2023): 106525.