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Paediatrics & neonatal research

Everything we have read on paediatrics & neonatal. Each paper is summarised from the full article rather than its abstract, so the limitations are in there too, and the funding wherever the paper declares it.

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• RNQualitative2025Parents' Experiences of Communication With School Nurses About Their Child's Weight Development in Sweden.The Journal of school nursing : the official publication of the National Association of School NursesParents described school nurse health visits as unclear, with little feedback and no access to growth charts. They wanted a digital channel, child-centered talks, and collaboration around their child's weight and context. This is experience, not proof.
• OTRNQualitative2025Exploring how 'wish-granting' interventions foster wellbeing for children with life-threatening health conditions and their families: A qualitative study.Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and communityFamilies and professionals described wish-granting as creating joy, anticipation, and shared memories that helped children with life-threatening conditions cope with treatment and see new possibilities. It reports experiences, not proof the intervention works.
• RNQualitative2025Adolescents' Experience of Pain: A Focus Group Study in Sweden.The Journal of school nursing : the official publication of the National Association of School NursesAdolescents described pain as a warning bell from stress, schoolwork, relationships, and grief. They managed it by distracting themselves, enduring, using painkillers or heat pads, and asking parents, friends, or school nurses for help.
• RNPilot2025Translating 'proportionate universal healthcare' into meaningful system design to optimize equity in child and family services.Journal of advanced nursingChild and family health nursing contacts before redesign did not vary by family risk. In the pilot, nurses reported less faking but no burnout improvement, while MECSH home-visiting families showed increased good ability to adapt and self-manage.
• RNOther2025Building a baby-friendly community: Development, strategy, implementation and evaluation of a BFCI program.Journal of advanced nursingBaby-friendly community workshops increased women's confidence in breastfeeding and improved public venue staff knowledge and attitudes after training. The before-and-after design, heavy attrition, and short follow-up mean this shows learning changes, not proven breastfeeding duration.
• RNQualitative2025Adolescent and caregiver perceptions of addressing mental health in inflammatory bowel disease.Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and communityAdolescents with IBD and caregivers said stigma, trust, and who was present shaped mental health talks. Direct, nonjudgmental questions were valued, but written screening alone was not enough. Ask each patient how they want these conversations.
• RNQualitative2025Factors that support children and young people to express their views and to have them heard in healthcare: An inductive qualitative content analysis.Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and communityTwenty children aged 7 to 18 said being heard depended on staff making time, building trusting relationships, using understandable words, including them in team meetings, and family support.
• RNOther2025Implementation frameworks, strategies and outcomes in optimizing central venous access device practice in paediatrics: A scoping review.Journal of advanced nursingPaediatric central line care studies mostly used quality improvement, education, bundles and working groups, but many lacked formal frameworks or cost outcomes, so it is hard to know which implementation efforts work.
• RNCohort2025A Comprehensive Assessment of the Environmental Impact of Different Infant Feeding Types: The Observational Study GREEN MOTHER.Journal of advanced nursingExclusive breastfeeding had lower environmental impact than formula feeding, even after accounting for breast pumps and accessories. Maternal diet impacts did not differ by feeding type. The study reports environmental impacts, not infant health benefits.
• RNSystematic Review2025Parents' perceptions of patient safety in paediatric hospital care-A mixed-methods systematic review.Journal of advanced nursingParents of hospitalized children are willing and ready to help monitor safety, but they often stay silent for fear of appearing rude or causing trouble for their child. Clinicians must explicitly invite parents to speak up and verify care details to unlock this safety resource.
• RNSurvey2025Children's and parents' attitudes to and knowledge about HPV vaccination following a targeted information intervention.Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and communityMost children were already vaccinated, and parents trusted school nurses most for HPV information. Still, many families had not seen the national information package, and parents worried about side effects.
• RNQualitative2025Using FRAME Documentation to Achieve RE-AIM Goals During Iterative, Stakeholder-Engaged Refinement of a Family Management Intervention for Parents of Preterm Infants.Journal of advanced nursingParents and NICU clinicians asked for a video parent-training program for very preterm infants to be easier to access, more inclusive, and less dependent on staff time. Nurses may use these requests to adapt parent education, but no tested effects on parents or infants.
• RNOther2025Adolescent Chlamydia Screening in Pediatric Primary Care: A Quality Improvement Project.Journal of advanced nursingScreening for chlamydia at adolescent well visits rose from 7.8% to 34.1% when all adolescents were offered testing, regardless of reported sexual activity, through a bundled workflow; 32 chlamydia and 4 gonorrhea cases were identified.
• RNSystematic Review2025Crying wolf, alarm safety and management in paediatrics: A scoping review.Journal of advanced nursingAlarm definitions and measurement methods vary widely across 37 paediatric and neonatal studies, preventing comparison of interventions. Most research focuses on critical care in the US. Changing alarm parameters is the most common strategy, but inconsistent terminology makes it impossible to determine which approaches truly improve patient safety.
• SLPRNQualitative2026Investigating parental perspectives of the enablers and barriers to communication with their preterm infants: A narrative study.Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and communityMothers said neonatal staff gave inconsistent communication support. Nurses focused on touch and skin-to-skin, while specific talking, reading cues and home follow-up varied.
• SLPRNOther2025Reducing the Duration to Reach Full Enteral and Oral Feeding Volumes for Very Preterm and Extremely Preterm Infants: A Quality Improvement Project.The Journal of perinatal & neonatal nursingIn 96 preterm infants, a bundle of feeding protocol, readiness assessment, oral motor work, breastfeeding support, and team feeding plans did not clearly reduce time to full enteral feeding, full oral feeding, or hospital stay. Only subgroups suggested possible benefit.
• RNQualitative2026An evaluation of the impact of a cancer support specialist service on families of children with cancer and the multidisciplinary team in a children's health service in Ireland.Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and communityParents and team members described a Cancer Support Specialist service as offering informal relational, navigational, mediation, respite and sibling support. They reported it helped families access support and allowed team members more time for clinical work.
• RNSystematic Review2026The health and well-being of children with medical complexity and their parents' when admitted to inpatient care units: A scoping review.Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and communityParents of medically complex children described hospital stays as exhausting, frightening, and sometimes driving thoughts of suicide. Children wanted routines, play, and staff who made them feel comfortable. The review mostly maps experiences, so it does not prove treatments.
• RNOther2025The Kids Pain Collaborative: A Hybrid Type 3 Implementation Effectiveness Study Transforming Paediatric Pain Care in the Emergency Department.Journal of advanced nursingAfter a paediatric emergency department pain project, nurse-initiated analgesia and triage pain scoring increased, but time to first pain medicine did not improve. Pandemic workload confounded the findings.
• RNCohort2025A Prospective Cohort Study of Technique and Technology Used to Improve First Time PIVC Insertion Success in Hospitalised Paediatric Patients.Journal of advanced nursingIn hospitalised children, only 156 of 250 peripheral IVs were placed on the first attempt. Vascular access specialists and ultrasound guidance were linked with higher first-attempt success among final successful inserters.
• RNQualitative2025An Acceptability and Feasibility Study of a Nurse-Led Model of Contraception and Abortion Care in Rural General Practice.Journal of advanced nursingRural general practice nurses and doctors viewed a nurse-led contraception and abortion model as acceptable and feasible. They identified funding barriers, specifically the lack of Medicare item numbers for nurses, and the need for strong GP-nurse trust and accessible training as key to implementation.
• RNOther2025Identifying Adolescent and Young Adults' Preferences for Oncology Symptom Management Clinical Trial Participation.Cancer nursingAYA cancer survivors preferred symptom-management trials with a treatment type they valued and a topic they saw as important. They favored shorter, once-weekly, under-30-minute visits and electronic surveys; 64% chose an alternative trial design.
• RNOther2025A Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Nurse-Led Domestic and Family Violence Service.Journal of advanced nursing233 women in a nurse-led domestic violence service were contacted quickly and assessed for injuries, including strangulation. Staff said outreach and coordination helped them reach health care. This was a service evaluation, not a tested intervention.
• PTRNOther2026Associations Between Frailty, Family Functioning, and Quality of Life in Adolescents With Congenital Heart Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of advanced nursingAdolescents with congenital heart disease who were frail or had moderate or severe family dysfunction reported lower quality of life. Frailty was especially linked to exhaustion and reduced activity in those with worse heart function.
• RNCohort2025Perceived Discrimination, Trauma, Mental Health, and Blood Pressure Outcomes Among Young African American/Black Mothers in the InterGEN Study.The Journal of cardiovascular nursingAmong young African American/Black mothers, more reported racial discrimination and race-related trauma was linked to increases in systolic blood pressure over 6 months. Depressive symptoms were not linked to systolic blood pressure change.
• RNQualitative2025'I Was Shattered and Broken': Unmasking the Experiences and Responses of Black Canadian to Pregnancy Loss.The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieresBlack Canadian women described pregnancy loss as numbness, denial, isolation, self-blame, and fear of future pregnancy. Some said healthcare providers offered little emotional support, so they leaned on faith, family, and online groups to cope.
• RNQualitative2025Parents' Experiences of Family-Centred Care in Home-Based Paediatric Care of Their Child With Life-Limiting Illness: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.Journal of advanced nursingParents valued home-based care for children with life-limiting illness but found it burdensome when services were not tailored. They wanted privacy, sibling support, inclusion in decisions and competent home care teams.
• RNOther2025Community Supervision Engagement to Examine Health Outcomes: A Scoping Review.Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.)Only 11 studies were found for people on probation or parole, and the one randomized trial found no effect on probation violations. Collaboration and empathy were reported as factors that supported care access, while stigma, transport and medication gaps were reported as barriers.
• RNSystematic Review2026Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents: A Qualitative Systematic Review.Journal of advanced nursingAdolescents with substance use disorder described starting use through curiosity, family conflict, peers and easy access, then facing health, school, family and legal harms. They asked for motivated, nonjudgmental treatment with family support and coping skills.
• RNCohort2026Relationship Between Health Literacy, Health Protective Behaviour, Quality of Life and Social Health in Older Adults Living in the Community.Journal of clinical nursingOlder adults had an average social health score of 50.48 ± 8.98 on a scale from 5 to 125. Lower scores were linked to older age, higher health literacy, lower quality of life, living alone, living with children, higher education and poor health perception.
• RNOther2025Nursing Research on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals-A Bibliometric Analysis.Journal of advanced nursingA map of nursing literature shows almost no research on how nurses deliver care that is environmentally sustainable. Most studies discuss policy or education, not patient outcomes, leaving clinicians without evidence on how to reduce waste or emissions in daily practice.
• RNQualitative2025Parents' Experiences of Holding Their Child for Healthcare Procedures: A Qualitative Exploratory Study.Journal of advanced nursingParents described moving between comforter, helper and enforcer roles while protecting their child during hospital procedures. Agreeing one clear role beforehand may help them support the child.
• RNRCT2026Efficacy of Virtual Reality vs. Tablet Games for Pain and Anxiety in Children Undergoing Bone Pins Removal: Randomised Clinical Trial.Journal of advanced nursingFor children undergoing bone pin or suture removal, VR and tablet games produced similar pain and anxiety outcomes after the procedure. VR was not superior, though parents and healthcare professionals preferred it.
• RNOther2026Family-centred care research in paediatrics: A scoping review.Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and communityPaediatric family-centred care research is broad but uneven: 579 studies were mostly cross-sectional surveys, hospital-based and North American, with inconsistent definitions and limited father, sibling and non-English family input.
• RNRCT2026A Neonatal Nurse-Controlled Model of Analgesia to Manage Post-Operative Pain in the Surgical Neonate: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial.Journal of advanced nursingNurse-controlled neonatal analgesia was feasible in parts but not fully: staff found pathways useful but hard to follow, pain scoring often missed, and recruitment fell short. The pilot did not establish whether this model reduces infant pain or improves recovery.
• RNSurvey2026Parenting in Armed Political Conflict: Relationships Between Parental Efficacy, Reflective Functioning, and Age Among War-Displaced Families.Journal of advanced nursingWar exposure alone showed no direct link to displaced parents' sense of efficacy. Older parents and those with stronger parent-child relationships reported higher efficacy, and age changed how exposure related to efficacy.
• RNCohort2026Predictive Performance of Device-Neonatal Skin Risk Assessment Scale to Evaluating Pressure Injuries Risk in the Neonates. An Observational Multicenter Study.Journal of clinical nursingIn 137 NICU neonates, 9 developed pressure injuries, mostly from devices. A device-adjusted score ≤11 in the first 24 hours predicted injuries better than Glamorgan.
• RNOther2026The Omission of Nursing Care in Emergency Departments: A Conceptual Analysis Using Walker & Avant's Methodology.Journal of advanced nursingEssential emergency nursing tasks such as monitoring, pain reassessment and discharge instructions can be left undone when staffing, workload and equipment gaps combine. No emergency-specific tool captures this well.
• RNOther2025Assessment of Surgical Site Infection Prevention Strategies in Obstetric Nursing Practice: A Retrospective Analysis.Journal of nursing care qualityCesarean patients cared for by nurses trained in a comprehensive prevention package had fewer infections (3.0% vs 10.0%), less pain on days 1 and 2, fewer complications, and better wound healing than standard care.
• RNQualitative2026You Can't Hold Their Hand the Whole Time: A Qualitative Study of Parents' Experiences of Adolescents With Food Allergy.Journal of advanced nursingParents of adolescents with food allergy described constant worry, family restrictions, and difficulty trusting their child to manage allergies. Misconceptions and poor confidence in using adrenaline persisted despite years of experience.
• RNCohort2026Factors Affecting the Quality of Life of Parents of Children With Spina Bifida: The Mediating Role of Family Resilience.Journal of advanced nursingParental quality of life was lower when parents had more depression or stress, had low income, or had children needing enemas. Family resilience was linked to better quality of life and partly linked depression to quality of life.
• RNSurvey2026Mediating Effects of Family and Clinical Characteristics on the Quality of Life of Children With Spina Bifida and Their Parents.Journal of advanced nursingIn 141 spina bifida parent-child pairs, higher parenting stress tracked with lower quality of life for both. Family resilience was part of this link. Transition readiness was not part of the link overall, but may matter when children had incontinence, catheter or mobility needs.
• RNSurvey2025Pregnancy, Birth, and Mental Health Outcomes Associated With Recent Reproductive Coercion and Intimate Partner Violence in a Crowd-Sourced National Sample.Journal of midwifery & women's healthReproductive coercion alone was linked to preterm birth and low birth weight, but when combined with other partner violence, the risk of unplanned pregnancy and suicidal thoughts rose sharply. Screening for coercion and violence is essential for perinatal mental health.
• RNSurvey2025Climate Change Awareness: Does It Affect the Fertility Desire?Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.)Higher climate change awareness was associated with slightly lower fertility desire in 440 married women without children in Türkiye. The link was weak, so climate concern alone should not be assumed to explain childbearing plans.
• RNSystematic Review2026Diverse Parental Experiences of Kangaroo Care in Neonatal Units Across Healthcare Systems: A Meta-Synthesis.Journal of advanced nursingAcross 25 studies, parents described Kangaroo Care as emotionally rewarding but physically and psychologically hard. Staff support, privacy, practical teaching and family help were linked to continuing, especially where resources were limited.
• RNCohort2026Model Predicting Positive Aspects of Caregiving Among Family Cares of Persons With Dementia: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.Journal of advanced nursingFamily carers of people with dementia reported more positive aspects of caregiving when they had confidence in controlling upsetting thoughts and getting respite, and when they reframed the situation. Active dementia management strategies did not predict this.
• RNQualitative2026Parental decision-making for non-urgent emergency department presentations in Victoria, Australia.Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and communityParents who took a child to an emergency department for a non-urgent problem said anxiety and lack of timely primary care made the ED feel like the only place. They wanted quick reassurance and answers, not always a better doctor.
• RNCase-Control2025Postpartum Hemorrhage and the Likelihood of Exclusive Breastfeeding Through 6 Months Postpartum: A Case-Control Study.Journal of midwifery & women's healthPeople who had postpartum hemorrhage were less likely to exclusively breastfeed at 4 and 6 months and stopped about 5 weeks earlier. The study shows an association, not that hemorrhage caused lower breastfeeding.
• RNOther2026Understanding Why Parents Say Yes or No to Organ Donation When Their Child Dies: Mixed-Methods Study.Journal of advanced nursingParents approached about organ donation as an end-of-life option for their child consented 49% of the time, and the rate fell from 59% to 37%. Nurse notes recorded timing, distress, beliefs, surgery concerns and limited time after death as factors in choices.
• RNQualitative2026How Classmates Experience Visiting Their Hospitalised Peer During Cancer Treatment: A RESPECT Study.Journal of advanced nursingClassmates visiting hospitalised peers felt excited and motivated to support them, but needed nurse briefings and adult backup to handle uncertainty, hospital rules and the child’s changing condition.