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The suffering of children with congenital heart disease, or with other clinical conditions, inquires people and urges us to face and solve many problems. It makes us to reflect on the life's secrets and bring us to consider that every condition can be or became negative if accepted with indifference, inertia, fear or convenience. The clinicians must always fight the disease, not passing by with indifference to those who live and suffer. The physicians, the researchers should not surrender to what is unknown. They must always be looking to the not-yet of the human possibilities, to the not-yet of research. Human problems become difficult to solve it we do not enter in one echosystem of solidarity. The ABC (Association of families with children suffering of congenital heart disease) represents an answer to many problems related to the presence of a heart condition in infants and children.
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PMID:[Defense and promotion of life of children with heart diseases. Nobody's monopoly, everybody's goal and responsibility]. 876 72

The ABC method is a behaviour management technique for use by nurses. ABC refers to the identification of Antecedent events, target Behaviours, and Consequent events. In this longitudinal intervention study with double baseline measurements we evaluated the effectiveness of the ABC method in patients with behavioural problems after acquired brain injury. Fifty-six patients participated in this study. Outcome was measured in terms of overall neuropsychiatric problem behaviour, aggression, apathy and emotional burden experienced by nurses. A process evaluation was performed to investigate usability and acceptability of the method and identify factors that influenced effectiveness. Friedman's ANOVA showed a small significant reduction over time in overall neuropsychiatric problem behaviour and aggression. The reduction was most prominent between the first baseline measurement and the post-implementation and follow-up measurements, not between the second baseline measurement and the post-implementation or follow-up measurements. This first group study on the effects of the ABC method could not prove this technique is effective for patients with behavioural problems after acquired brain injury. Nurses indicated that the ABC method was not fully implemented in their daily routines. This may have influenced results and makes it yet premature to draw firm conclusions on the effects of the ABC method.
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PMID:Effects of a behaviour management technique for nursing staff on behavioural problems after acquired brain injury. 2841 82