Journal article
Health care professionals’ knowledge, attitudes and practices relating to umbilical cord blood banking and donation: an integrative review
BMC pregnancy and childbirth, Vol.16, 81
2016
Abstract
Background: Collection and storage of an infant's cord blood at birth is an option available to many new parents. Antenatal health care providers have an important role in providing non-biased and evidence based information to expectant parents about cord blood and tissue banking options. The aim of this paper was to identify and review studies of health care professionals' knowledge, attitudes and practices concerning cord blood banking and the sources by which healthcare professionals obtained their information on this topic. Methods: An integrative review was conducted using several electronic databases to identify papers on health are professionals' knowledge, attitudes and practices pertaining to cord blood banking. The CASP tool was used to determine validity and quality of the studies included in the review. Results: The search of the international literature identified nine papers which met review inclusion criteria. The literature review identified that there was little focus placed on antenatal health care professionals' knowledge of cord blood banking options despite these health care professionals being identified by expectant parents as their preferred, key source of information. Conclusion: Limited high quality studies have investigated what health care professionals know and communicate to expectant parents regarding cord blood banking. Further research should focus on understanding the knowledge, attitudes and practices of healthcare professionals and how they communicate with expectant parents about this issue. In addition, how this knowledge influences professional practice around birth is also important, as this may positively or negatively impact the information that is provided to expectant parents.
Details
- Title
- Health care professionals’ knowledge, attitudes and practices relating to umbilical cord blood banking and donation: an integrative review
- Authors
- Lisa Peberdy (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and EngineeringJeanine Young (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and EngineeringLauren Kearney (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
- Publication details
- BMC pregnancy and childbirth, Vol.16, 81; 19
- Publisher
- BioMed Central Ltd.
- Date published
- 2016
- DOI
- 10.1186/s12884-016-0863-6
- ISSN
- 1471-2393
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2016 Peberdy et al. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health - Nursing; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449521502621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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