Browsing by Author "Barber, Carrie Cornsweet"

• Māori child rearing and infant sleep practices 

  Jones, Horiana Majorie; Barber, Carrie Cornsweet; Nikora, Linda Waimarie; Middlemiss, Wendy (New Zealand Psychological Society, 2017)

  Sleep is important to a healthy lifestyle for parents and children, and having effective ways of putting a child to sleep contributes significantly to mental and physical wellbeing. Cultural groups around the world have ...

  

• PositivelyPregnant: Using guided prompts in a stress-management app for pregnant women 

  Barber, Carrie Cornsweet; Singh, Sukrita; Hinze, Annika; Vanderschantz, Nicholas (BCS Learning and Development Ltd., 2018)

  This paper reports on our interdisciplinary research on stress management for pregnant women. We developed a mobile app – PositivelyPregnant – for supporting the mental wellbeing of pregnant women in New Zealand. The app ...

  

• Pregnancy gone wrong: Women's experiences of care in relation to coping with a medical complication in pregnancy 

  Currie, Jane Christina Helen; Barber, Carrie Cornsweet (New Zealand College of Midwives, 2016)

  Objective: To understand the experiences of twelve New Zealand women with medical complications in pregnancy. Method: Inductive, semantic, qualitative analysis was employed to obtain an in-depth insight into the experience ...

  

• Postnatal depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic: The needs and experiences of New Zealand mothers and health care providers 

  Ryan, Amelia (The University of Waikato, 2021)

  The postnatal period is a vulnerable time for women’s mental health, particularly within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, there have been no studies based in New Zealand that have asked mothers who gave birth ...

  

• When appearances are misleading: Psychosocial consequences of facial masking in Parkinson’s disease 

  Wootton, Adrienne (The University of Waikato, 2021)

  Facial masking, the loss of expressive facial mobility in Parkinson’s disease, has the potential to impact communication, emotion perception, subjective wellbeing, and social relationship functioning. This unique symptom ...

  

• An exploration of wellbeing in Hapū Wānanga through a Te Wheke framework analysis 

  Hawaikirangi, Lena (The University of Waikato, 2021)

  Before colonisation, Māori had comprehensive knowledge and practices around pregnancy and childbirth. With colonisation, traditional maternity knowledge and practices were replaced by western medical practices. In more ...

  

• “I thought I was going to jinx myself every time I told someone”: Exploring how women communicate in a pregnancy subsequent to loss. 

  Tremain, Chelsea (The University of Waikato, 2021)

  Miscarriage is one of the most commonly occurring types of pregnancy loss; it is estimated that one out of every three women will experience a miscarriage and one out of 200 will experience a still birth. Loss of a pregnancy ...

  

• “You’re not coming out – you’ve been there all along and just no one’s looked”: Māori LGBT+ youth and identity exploration 

  Laurence, Rebekah (The University of Waikato, 2020)

  This research is a Masters-level project on Māori LGBT-plus (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other) youths’ experience of exploring their gender and sexual identities, highlighting how whānau (loosely, ‘extended ...

  

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