Anne Chevalier McKechnie, PhD, RN

• Co-operative Membership:
  Child and Family Health
  
• Center Memberships:
  Center for Child and Family Health Promotion Research 
  Center for Children with Special Health Care Needs

Research area includes: Understanding the needs of families who continue pregnancies after fetal diagnoses, are preparing for and adapting to the care required for their children with special health care needs; Developing and testing family-centered interventions to enhance strengths and reduce risks for parents and their children with special health care needs during an early, formative time.

Funded Research:

Title of Project: Communication About Needs and Diagnostic Information of Relevance for expectant parents after fetal anomaly diagnosis: Developing the CANDIR assessment for research and clinical use
Funding Agency: Sigma Theta Tau, Alpha Alpha Chapter. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Nursing
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Project Dates: 2014

Title of Project: Parenting a child born with a structural anomaly: A follow up study
Funding Agency: National Institute of Nursing Research, T32 NR007091-18, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Nursing
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Project Dates: 2013-2015

Title of Project: Becoming a parent after a prenatal diagnosis
Funding Agency: National Institute of Nursing Research, F31NR011563-01A1 and Eckburg Scholarship. University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing
Role: Predoctoral Fellow
Project Dates: 2011-2013

Title of Project: Parenting after congenital heart defect diagnosis
Funding Agency: American Nurses Foundation and the Nurse Alumni Organization, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Role: Predoctoral Student Investigator
Project Dates: 2008-2010

Selected Publications:

• Pridham, K. F., Harrison, T., McKechnie, A. C., Krolikowski, M. & Brown, R. (In Review). Co-Parenting Qualities and Motivations for Caring for an Infant with Complex Congenital Heart Disease: Change from 1 to 12 Months.
• McKechnie, A. C., Pridham, K., & Tluczek, A. (In Press). Walking the “emotional tightrope” from pregnancy to parenthood: Understanding parental motivation to manage health care and distress after fetal diagnosis of congenital heart disease. Journal of Family Nursing.
• Tluczek, A., Clark, R., McKechnie, A. C., & Brown, R. (2015). Factors affecting parent-child relationships one year after positive newborn screening for cystic fibrosis or congenital hypothyroidism. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 36(1), 24-34. doi:10.1097/DBP.0000000000000112
• McKechnie, A. C., Tluczek, A., & Pridham, K. (2014). Preparing heart and mind for becoming a parent following a diagnosis of fetal anomaly. Qualitative Health Research. doi:10.1177/1049732314553852
• McKechnie, A. C., & Pridham, K. (2012). Preparing heart and mind following prenatal diagnosis of complex congenital heart defect. Qualitative Health Research, 22, 1694-1706. doi:10.1177/1049732312458371
• Tluczek, A., McKechnie, A. C., & Brown, R. (2011). Factors associated with parental perception of child vulnerability 12 months after abnormal newborn screening results. Research in Nursing and Health, 34, 389-400. doi:10.1002/nur.20452
• McKechnie, A. C., & Eglash, A. (2010). Nipple shield use: A review. Breastfeeding Medicine, 5, 309-314. doi:10.1089/bfm.2010.0003
• Tluczek, A., McKechnie, A. C., & Lynam, P. A. (2010). When the cystic fibrosis label does not fit: a modified uncertainty theory. Qualitative Health Research, 20, 209-223. doi:10.1177/1049732309356285
• Tluczek, A., Clark, R., McKechnie, A. C., & Brown, R. (2010). Task-oriented and bottle feeding adversely affect the quality of mother-infant interactions after abnormal newborn screens. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 31, 414-426. doi:10.1097/DBP.0b013e3181dd5049
• Eglash, A., Ziemer, A. L. & McKechnie, A. C. (2010). Health professionals' attitudes and use of nipple shields for breastfeeding women. Breastfeeding Medicine, 5, 147-51. doi:10.1089/bfm.2010.0006
• McKechnie, A. C., Tluczek, A., & Henriques, J. B. (2009). Maternal variables influencing duration of breastfeeding among low-income mothers. ICAN: Infant, Child, & Adolescent Nutrition, 1, 126-132. doi:10.1177/1941406409334379

Dissertation

• McKechnie, A. C. (2013). Becoming a parent after a prenatal diagnosis: A model of preparing heart and mind within the caregiving system (Doctoral dissertation). Available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. (UMI No. 3588387)