Aim: The aim of this study was to examine health professionals´ experiences of giving advice regarding sleep to parents of infants and to perform and evaluate an intervention in the form of introducing information about the sleep of infants.Method: The study was designed as an intervention study with a qualitative approach where data was collected from two focus groups in the form of interviews. The intervention consisted of the information material Sugen på sömn. There were five participants whom three of them participated in the second interview. The interviews were processed by content analysis.Results: Health professionals´ experience of giving advice on sleep was summarized in three themes. The experiences of giving advice in interaction with parents, health professional themselves experienced the power to influence the parents with the advice they gave, while the parents' previous experience and knowledge impacted on how the advice came into practice. The approach that the nursing staff has established is to promote skin to skin care and breastfeeding experienced in relationship with a child's perspective. The approach is in conflict with the advice in the way that infants should sleep. Health professionals describe experiences of counseling about sleep difficult to apply in practice. In the evaluation of the information material the experiences around the use of the material was perceived to facilitate situations where advice is given. The nursing staff also highlighted various factors on the process of introducing new material in the workplace.Conclusion: The nursing staff experienced practical difficulties surrounding of supporting parent-child-relationship and at the same time convey the advice that reduces the risk of SIDS. The information material Sugen på sömn can facilitate counseling situation, however, would more studies to be of value for evaluating the information material. / Syfte: Syftet var att undersöka vårdpersonals upplevelser av att ge råd kring sömn tillspädbarnsföräldrar samt att genomföra och utvärdera en intervention i form avintroducering av ett informationsmaterial kring spädbarns sömn.Metod: En interventionsstudie med kvalitativ ansats genomfördes där data samladesin med hjälp av två fokusgruppsintervjuer. Interventionen bestod avinformationsmaterialet Sugen på sömn. Totalt fem deltagare medverkade, varav tre avdessa medverkade vid andra intervjutillfället. Intervjuerna bearbetades genominnehållsanalys.Resultat: Vårdpersonalens upplevelse av att ge råd kring sömn sammanfattades i treteman. I upplevelse av att ge rådgivning i interaktion med föräldrar beskrevvårdpersonalen sig ha makt att påverka föräldrarna med de råd de ger, samtidigt harföräldrars tidigare erfarenheter och kunskap inverkan på hur råden omsätts ipraktiken. Föräldrar upplevdes reagera med trötthet och uppgivenhet att följa rådet attbarn under tre månader bör sova i egen säng. Det arbetssätt som vårdpersonalen haretablerat, att främja hudnära vård och amning beskrevs hamna i konflikt medrådgivningen kring hur barn sover säkert i upplevelse av att ge rådgivning i relationmed ett barnperspektiv. Vårdpersonalen beskrev upplevelse av att rådgivning kringsömn på olika sätt är svår att tillämpa i praktiken. I utvärderingen avinformationsmaterialet framkom att användningen av materialet underlättarsituationer där rådgivning ges. Vårdpersonalen belyste olika faktorers inverkan påprocessen att introducera nytt material på en arbetsplats.Slutsats: Vårdpersonalen upplevde praktiska svårigheter kring att stödjaföräldra-barn-relationen och samtidigt förmedla råden som minskarrisken för plötslig spädbarnsdöd. Ett informationsmaterial som Sugen på sömn kanunderlätta rådgivningssituationen dock skulle fler studier vara av värde för att utvärdera informationsmaterialet.

<p><em>Aim: </em>Compare occurrences of first-time-events reported by mothers and fathers with children at high tech NICU according to kangaroo-mother-care method in two university hospitals.</p><p> </p><p><em>Method: </em>Descriptive, quantitative design. Fourty-five couples of parents, with premature children born and cared for at university hospitals in Uppsala or Örebro, answered questionnaires about first-time-events: interaction-events, measures-of-care-events and sleeping-place-events.</p><p> </p><p><em>Results:</em> All differences regarding the children’s age at first-time-events showed Uppsala-children to be younger than Örebro-children. Interaction-events were reported first in children’s lives, measures-of-care-events and sleeping-place-events later. Children in Uppsala were younger (postnatally) at all three types of first-time-events, and less mature than Örebro-children (lower postmenstrual age), at measures-of-care-events and sleeping-place-events, but not interaction-events. Differences between mothers and fathers appeared regarding interaction and measures-of-care, but not sleeping-place.</p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Conclusion:</em> Differences in interaction-events parent/child appeared postnatally but not postmenstrually, because postmenstrual age measures in weeks- a measure too rough when interaction was reported to happen during the first hours/days.</p><p> </p><p>Why Uppsala-children were younger than Örebro-children at first-time-events, is probably because Uppsala has a more developed KMC-care than Örebro.</p><p> </p><p>Why Uppsala-children were younger than Örebro-children at first-time-events between father/child, but not mother/child is likely because Uppsala’s KMC-care is more developed and fathers receive more support there than in Örebro.</p>

Aim: Compare occurrences of first-time-events reported by mothers and fathers with children at high tech NICU according to kangaroo-mother-care method in two university hospitals.   Method: Descriptive, quantitative design. Fourty-five couples of parents, with premature children born and cared for at university hospitals in Uppsala or Örebro, answered questionnaires about first-time-events: interaction-events, measures-of-care-events and sleeping-place-events.   Results: All differences regarding the children’s age at first-time-events showed Uppsala-children to be younger than Örebro-children. Interaction-events were reported first in children’s lives, measures-of-care-events and sleeping-place-events later. Children in Uppsala were younger (postnatally) at all three types of first-time-events, and less mature than Örebro-children (lower postmenstrual age), at measures-of-care-events and sleeping-place-events, but not interaction-events. Differences between mothers and fathers appeared regarding interaction and measures-of-care, but not sleeping-place.   Conclusion: Differences in interaction-events parent/child appeared postnatally but not postmenstrually, because postmenstrual age measures in weeks- a measure too rough when interaction was reported to happen during the first hours/days.   Why Uppsala-children were younger than Örebro-children at first-time-events, is probably because Uppsala has a more developed KMC-care than Örebro.   Why Uppsala-children were younger than Örebro-children at first-time-events between father/child, but not mother/child is likely because Uppsala’s KMC-care is more developed and fathers receive more support there than in Örebro.

Bakgrund: BHV-sjuksköterskan ger råd efter Socialstyrelsens rekommendationer att barn under tre månader sover säkrast i egen säng. Studier visar att många föräldrar väljer att samsova med sina barn. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att undersöka om BHV-sjuksköterskan anseratt Socialstyrelsens råd och rekommendationer angående nattsömnen hos barn under tre månader är tillräckliga samt om och vilka råd som ges om samsovning. Metod: En kvantitativ ansats har använts. En enkät utformades och fylldes i av BHV-sjuksköterskor (n=47) i Nordvästra Skåne. Resultat: Resultatet visade att BHV-sjuksköterskorna ansåg att samsovning är vanligt förekommande och att de ofta ger råd kring hur samsovning kan ske säkrare. Resultatet visade också att BHV-sjuksköterskorna har olika uppfattningar om vad säker samsovning är samt vilka råd de ger. En fjärdedel av BHV-sjuksköterskorna ansåg att råden är otillräckliga. Slutsats: Studien visar att BHV-sjuksköterskor ger råd kring hur samsovning kan ske säkrare trots att detta inte rekommenderas samt att de ger olika råd. Detta ger ett behov av utökade råd och rekommendationer angående barns sovmiljö när det är yngre än tre månader. / Background: Nurses at child health service give advice from the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare that infants under three months should sleep in its own cot. Many parents choose to bed share with their infant. Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate if the nurses at child health services find that the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare´s advice and recommendations regarding night sleep in infants under three months are sufficient and whether and what advice they give regarding bed sharing. Method:A quantitative approach has been used. A survey was drafted and replied by nurses at child health care service (n=47) in south Sweden. Results: The results show that the nurses consider that bed sharing was common and that they often gave advice on how bed sharing can be safer. The nurses had different perceptions of what safe bed sharing is and what advice they provide. A quarter of the nurses consider the advice to be insufficient. Conclusion:Nurses at child health service give advice on how bed sharing can be safer even though this is not recommended in Sweden and that they provide different advice. This requires extended advice regarding infants sleep environment.