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Annotated Bibliography
Shanaria Gordon
Annotated Bibliography
Southern New Hampshire University
Annotated Bibliography
Daniel, L. C., Grant, M., Kothare, S. V., Dampier, C., & Barakat, L. P. (2010). Sleep Patterns in Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease. Pediatr Blood Cancer, 55, 501-507.
The article by Daniel et al. (2020) compares the sleeping patterns and behavior of SCD children and their healthy controls. The researchers used questionnaires to gather information from parents with SCD children between four to ten years. Based on the study, Daniel et al. (2020) found that SCD children have more behaviors like waking up at night and sleeping disorders compared to the control groups. Also, the researchers found that sleeping disorders were related to complications like enuresis and SES. The authors stated that children with sickle cell conditions have high risks of indicating different symptoms of sleeping dysfunctional breathing. They assert that having a sleeping disorder can make a child experience excessive sleepiness during the daytime. Also, they argue that the prevalence of severe and long-term pain causes sleeping disruptions to SCD patients. Additionally, children with poor health conditions like snoring, sleepwalking, and sleeping problems should be screened to determine their mental and physiologically functioning and their ability to cope with SCD. The study can be useful in assessing SCD children in the rural population who are likely to exhibit sleeping problems. Also, it can help in developing the right treatments for enuresis, pain, and priapism can help improve sleeping problems in those children. Moreover, modifying the sleeping environment can improve sleeping efficiency and quality. The study is significant in educating parents on the strategies they can apply to improve their children’s sleep.
Hildenbrand, A. K., Barakat, L. P., Alderfer, M. A., & Marsac, M. L. (2015). Coping and coping assistance among children with sickle cell disease and their parents. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol., 37(1), 25-34. https://dx.doi.org/10.1097MPH.0000000000000092
The study evaluates the stressors related to SCD and the strategies families with SCD children can use to cope with their children’s mental and physical well-being. The researchers used quantitative coping inventories and interviews. They conducted a study on children between six to fourteen years and found that children have stressors related to SCD. The authors report that SCD children and their families face medical typicalities like acute anemia, which leads to high mortality rates. Also, SCD children face other mental problems like frequent hospitalizations and short stature. Further, the researchers found that monitoring the growth and nutrition of SCD children can help improve their condition. Also, educating and supporting families that have children with SCD can help them acquire more skills to cope with the disease. The study can be effective to people living in rural areas whereby it can educate parents with SCD children on the avoidance strategies that can help control SCD on their children. Also, it can help in providing a degree of consensus between parents and children coping assistance strategies. The study provides an understanding of the ways that parents and children can cope with SCD.
Hyacinth, H. I., Gee, B. E., & Hibbert, J. M. (2010). The Role of Nutrition in Sickle Cell Disease. Nutrition and Metabolic Insights, 3, 57–67. https://dx.doi.org/10.4137NMI.S5048
The study reviews literature that describes alternatives to provide nutrition ensures a reduction in mortality and morbidity among SCD patients and ensures the quality of life. From the literature reviewed, Hyacinth et al. (2010) report that the cure of sickle cell anemia has remained a challenge after being discovered to be a transmissible disease. The researchers argue that undernutrition is a factor that causes the problem and should be considered as a requirement during clinical care. Also, they found that dietetic intervention showed a clinical improvement in the retarded children and increased growth after supplement. Hyacinth et al. (2010) report that providing energy and proteins to the SDA children helps in improving their growth and clinical outcome. The study has helped in determining that SCD in the rural population can be a result of undernutrition. Therefore, it can effectively determine that providing the right protein and energy nutrients can help reduce the mortality and morbidity rate in children in rural areas. The research helps to understand that providing the correct nutritional supplement of micronutrients can help to control sickle cell anemia in children.
Liem, R. I. (2018). Balancing exercise risk and benefits: lessons learned from sickle cell trait and sickle cell anemia. Hematology Am Soc Hematol Educ Program., 1, 418–425. https://dx.doi.org/10.1182asheducation-2018.1.418
The study reviews how regular exercise exercises for people with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) benefit them both mentally and socially. Liem (2018) framed the review using key questions and compared the history of the existing evidence and gaps between SCA and SCA. Liem found that carrying out routine exercises can help prevent the likelihood of acquiring heart problems in the future. However, the author states that carrying out regular exercises does not exist due to the aftermath of intensive practices to the patients. The article describes patients with SCD to have high sickle hemoglobin in red cells. The author claims that there is a need to consider both the positive and negative impacts of regular exercises on patients with SCD. Liem noted that high exercise increases the risks of getting intramuscular catabolic thermogenesis. The findings can be effective to the rural population as the population can learn that conducting regular exercises in children with SCD can improve their normal growth and development. Also, it can help improve the cardiac outcome and quality of life for both children and adults. The article helps individuals to understand that although regular exercises are important in controlling SCD, intense exercises can lead to complications.
Mandese, V., Marotti, F., Bedetti, L., Bigi, E., Palazzi, G., & Lughetti, L. (2016). Effects of nutritional intake on disease severity in children with sickle cell disease. Nutrition Journal, 15(46). https://dx.doi.org/10.1186s12937-016-0159-8
The article evaluates whether taking less nutritious food can increase the acuteness of SCD in children. The authors carried out an observational study involving twenty-nine SCD children and did a follow-up of six months. The authors found that the food children had consumed unbalanced between macro and micronutrients and calories. They also found that children with SCD have growth and development failure compared to their healthy peers. The authors state that growth failure is facilitated by factors such as endocrine dysfunction and poor nutrition. They assert that providing better nutrition can help in improving the body composition, specifically the lean mass, and reduce the mortality and morbidity caused by SCD. The study findings can help the rural population to understand the importance of providing their SCD children with food with the right nutrients like folic acid to improve their impaired. The population can also learn that providing nutrients like antioxidants and zinc helps add nutrients and provide restorative benefits to SCD children. The study has shown that adequate intake of macro and micronutrients can help in increasing the HbF levels hence protecting SCD patients.
Moody, K., Abrahams, B., Baker, R., Carullo, V., Eugenio, D., Carrol, A., & Carroll, A. (2017). A Randomized Trial of Yoga for Children Hospitalized With Sickle Cell Vaso-Occlusive Crisis. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 53(3), 1026-1034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2016.12.351
The study analyzed the differences in the impacts of yoga and attention control on pain in SCD children. The researchers used patients who were between five to twenty-one years with uncomplicated SCD. The researchers used the stratified method to categorize their participants according to the severity of their disease. They found that children that had been introduced to yoga exercise had a significant decrease in their pain compared to the control group. Further, they argue that non-pharmacological interventions can help SCD children cope with the condition and control the pain and stress. The use of the intervention includes mental therapies like mindful meditation and relaxation exercises. The authors classified yoga as one of the therapy techniques that can help control pain in SCD children. The study findings can be applied to children with SCD to help improve their quality of life. The study findings show that teaching yoga to children can help them even in their adulthood to manage their pain.
