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 ...

  

• “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 ...

  

• Mindfulness in antenatal classes: A quasi-experimental pilot study 

  Irving, Tracey Ann (The University of Waikato, 2020)

  Pregnancy is a major life transition, and entails high levels of change and uncertainty which, for some parents, can elicit anxiety and distress. Mindfulness practices may help people to cope with uncertainty and change. ...

  

• Social support, coping strategies and the impact on relationships for adolescents who have experienced cancer 

  Evans, Rebecca Sian (University of Waikato, 2015)

  Adolescence is a period characterised by a number of biological, social and psychological changes. Those facing a cancer diagnosis in adolescence find that they have further challenges and changes to deal with, in addition ...

  

• Where there's smoke there's fire? Women's experiences of smoking and cessation during pregnancy 

  Drewer, Amanda (University of Waikato, 2014)

  Women who smoke during pregnancy have been identified by the New Zealand Ministry of Health as a priority group for cessation services. In addition to adverse pregnancy outcomes, the effects of cigarette exposure in utero ...

  

• Challenges of a Pregnancy Gone Wrong: Pregnancy Complications, Illness Perceptions and Distress 

  Currie, Jane Christina Helen (University of Waikato, 2014)

  Women with pregnancy complications need to cope with a pregnancy that can have life changing consequences. The objective of this research project was to understand the experience of women who had been diagnosed with a ...

  

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