Who were the authors of the study, "Negotiating sleep..."?
100
20 new mothers
How many participants were in the study?
100
80%
What percentage of women were breastfeeding at 3 months postpartum? OR
What percentage of women noted changes in their dream patterns?
100
anticipatory dreams
What type of dreams did women report during late pregnancy?
100
A sampling procedure that involves the recruitment of participants and/or artifacts to seek information that helps to refine ideas and fill in conceptual gaps or holes.
What is theoretical sampling?
200
To describe how new mothers experience changes in their sleep throughout and immediately after their pregnancy.
What was the purpose of the present study?
200
N = 150
How many participants completed the larger study to date?
200
A score of 16 or higher.
What was the CES-D cut-off score for being classified as 'at risk for depression'?
200
daytime naps
How did new mothers cope with poor nocturnal sleep quality?
200
Interview transcripts, field notes, documents, artifacts, photographs, and video recordings.
What are examples of qualitative data?
300
To assess the effectiveness of early implementation of sleep hygiene practices to help reduce stress among new mothers.
What was the purpose of the larger study?
300
A research design in which participants are randomly assigned to an intervention or control group to test the effectiveness a clinical intervention.
What is a randomized clinical trial?
300
- the changing characteristics of sleep
- sleep and puerperium and
- changing sleep consciousness
What were the 3 emerging themes from the interviews?
300
Breastfeeding and trying to predict infant's patterns.
What factors contributed to women's new role as mothers and maternal exhaustion?
300
The point at which new interviews appear to yield little additional information.
What is the "saturation point" OR
What is "the point of redundancy"
400
- becoming acquainted and attached with the infant during the early postpartum period and
- moving toward a "new normal"
Which two stages of Mercer's theory are most relevant to the present study?
400
Sleep experiences during pregnancy, labor, hospitalization, and up to 3 months postpartum, dreams, and advice to new mothers.
What questions were asked as part of the semi-structured interviews?
400
- cranky and less patient with partners
- difficulty concentrating
What were two reported implications of sleep deprivation?
400
- Avoiding alcohol before bedtime;
- Developing an early consciousness of obtaining sleep when possible and
- Accepting/directing offers of assistance with infant care
What are practical suggestions to promote sleep?
400
A visual tool used to display associations among data, including causal links.
What is a matrix?
500
- committing, attaching and preparing for the infant during pregnancy
-becoming acquainted with and attached with the infant during early postpartum period
-moving toward a "new normal"
-achieving a maternal identity
What are the 4 stages of Mercer's theory?
500
- identifying the stories in the data
- interpreting their meanings
- connecting stories to past research
- identifying new knowledge
What are the steps of Geanellos' data analytic technique?
500
The realization that sleep would not be the same as it was before pregnancy for a long, long, time, if ever; and that it was critical for daily functioning.
What is "sleep consciousness"?
500
Participant burden and the use of a convenience sample.
What were the noted limitations of the study?
500
An analytical approach in which there are no predefined measures or hypotheses. Data analysis is conducted through a process of discovery.