Exploring implicit bias in the perceived consequences of prematurity amongst health care providers in North Queensland - a constructivist grounded theory study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Congenital malformations contribute significantly to the disease burden among children globally. A study conducted in Kenya on understanding the burden of surgical congenital anomalies, highlights the need for Kenyan health systems to go beyond the medical dimensions of illness. This could be achieved by lin...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Onyambu CK,Tharamba NM

更新日期：2018-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vaginal birth after Caesarean section (VBAC) is a relevant question for a large number of women due to the internationally rising Caesarean section (CS) rate. There is a great deal of research based on quantitative studies but few qualitative studies about women's experiences. METHOD:A metasynthesis based o...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Lundgren I,Begley C,Gross MM,Bondas T

更新日期：2012-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research on antenatal depressive, anxiety and stress symptoms among women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is lacking in Malaysia. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and factors associated with antenatal depressive, anxiety and stress symptoms among Malaysian women with GDM. METHODS:This w...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Lee KW,Ching SM,Hoo FK,Ramachandran V,Chong SC,Tusimin M,Mohd Nordin N

更新日期：2019-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND: Neu-Laxova syndrome is a rare congenital abnormality involving multiple systems. We report a case of Neu-Laxova syndrome (NLS) diagnosed prenatally by ultrasound examination. CASE PRESENTATION: A 29-year-old gravida 3, para 2 woman was first seen in our antenatal clinic at 38 weeks' pregnancy. Except for t...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Aslan H,Gul A,Polat I,Mutaf C,Agar M,Ceylan Y

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome may have serious consequences for both mother and fetus. Women who have suffered from preeclampsia or the HELLP syndrome, have an increased risk of developing preeclampsia in a subsequent pregnancy. However, most women will develop no or only minor complications. In this study...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Delahaije DH,van Kuijk SM,Dirksen CD,Sep SJ,Peeters LL,Spaanderman ME,Bruinse HW,de Wit-Zuurendonk LD,van der Post JA,Duvekot JJ,van Eyck J,van Pampus MG,van der Hoeven MA,Smits LJ

更新日期：2010-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Congenital malformations are structural, functional, and metabolic defects that develop during the organogenesis period and present at birth or later in life. There has been little research on congenital malformations in Ethiopia, knowledge on the incidence of birth defects at birth is unknown and the etiolo...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Mekonnen AG,Hordofa AG,Kitila TT,Sav A

更新日期：2020-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:British women are increasingly delaying childbirth. The proportion giving birth over the age of 35 rose from 12% in 1996 to 20% in 2006. Women over this age are at a higher risk of perinatal death, and antepartum stillbirth accounts for 61% of all such deaths. Women over 40 years old have a similar stillbirt...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Walker KF,Bugg G,Macpherson M,McCormick C,Wildsmith C,Smith G,Thornton J

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Women with gestational diabetes (GDM) are at high risk of developing diabetes later in life. After a GDM diagnosis, women receive prenatal care to control their blood glucose levels via diet, physical activity and medications. Continuing such lifestyle skills into early motherhood may reduce the risk of diab...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Ferrara A,Hedderson MM,Albright CL,Brown SD,Ehrlich SF,Caan BJ,Sternfeld B,Gordon NP,Schmittdiel JA,Gunderson EP,Mevi AA,Tsai AL,Ching J,Crites Y,Quesenberry CP Jr

更新日期：2014-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic susceptibility to tobacco smoke might modify the effect of smoking on pregnancy outcomes. METHODS:We conducted a case-control study of 543 women who delivered singleton live births in Kaunas (Lithuania), examining the association between low-level tobacco smoke exposure (mean: 4.8 cigarettes/day) du...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Danileviciute A,Grazuleviciene R,Paulauskas A,Nadisauskiene R,Nieuwenhuijsen MJ

更新日期：2012-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adequate antenatal care is important to both the health of a pregnant woman and her unborn baby. Given South Africa's high rate of cellphone penetration, mobile health interventions have been touted as a potentially powerful means to disseminate health information. This study aimed to increase antenatal heal...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Lau YK,Cassidy T,Hacking D,Brittain K,Haricharan HJ,Heap M

更新日期：2014-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To evaluate if women with a history of myomectomy have a modified preterm birth risk compared to women with myomas during pregnancy. METHODS:Retrospective cohort study including all women with a history of myomectomy (operated group) or uterine myomas during pregnancy (unoperated group) who delivered in a t...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Rault E,Delorme P,Goffinet F,Girault A

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, determination of personalized risk for fetal chromosomal anomalies emerged as an important component of prenatal genetic counseling. Women in whom fetal risk for chromosomal aberrations is elevated are offered further testing. The aim of this study was to identify factors that may influence ...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Sadlecki P,Grabiec M,Walentowicz P,Walentowicz-Sadlecka M

更新日期：2018-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripartum events hold the potential to have dramatic effects in the programming of physiology and behaviour of offspring and possibly subsequent generations. Here we have characterized transgenerational changes in rat maternal behaviour as a function of gestational and prenatal stress. Pregnant dams of the parental g...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Ward ID,Zucchi FC,Robbins JC,Falkenberg EA,Olson DM,Benzies K,Metz GA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2009 the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care funded the implementation of province-wide fetal fibronectin testing in Ontario hospitals. This paper reports results from the provincial evaluation that sought to describe the experience of fetal fibronectin testing from the perspective of women with...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Peterson WE,Sprague AE,Reszel J,Walker M,Fell DB,Perkins SL,Dunn SI,Johnson M

更新日期：2014-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fear of childbirth is a common health concern for women during pregnancy. The Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (W-DEQ) is widely used to measure childbirth fear during pregnancy. However, this instrument is yet to be validated in Malawi, Africa. Our study aimed to assess the psychometric pr...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Khwepeya M,Huang HC,Lee GT,Kuo SY

更新日期：2020-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The increasing number of operative deliveries is a topic of major concern in modern obstetrics. Maternal thyroid function is of known influence on many obstetric parameters. Our objective was to investigate a possible relation between maternal thyroid function, and operative deliveries. Secondary aim was to ...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Monen L,Pop VJ,Hasaart TH,Wijnen H,Oei SG,Kuppens SM

更新日期：2015-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fear of childbirth has negative consequences for a woman's physical and emotional wellbeing. The most commonly used measurement tool for childbirth fear is the Wijma Delivery Expectancy Questionnaire (WDEQ-A). Although originally conceptualized as unidimensional, subsequent investigations have suggested it i...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Pallant JF,Haines HM,Green P,Toohill J,Gamble J,Creedy DK,Fenwick J

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the United Kingdom, midwives will engage in discussions with the multidisciplinary team as to whether they can provide Obstetric High Dependency Care (OHDC) on the Delivery Suite or whether a woman's care should be escalated to the critical care team. This study aimed to explore the question: What factors...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： James A,Cooper S,Stenhouse E,Endacott R

更新日期：2019-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND: This abandoned randomised controlled trial assessed the effects of hospitalisation from 24 to 30 weeks gestation for women with a triplet pregnancy on the risk of preterm birth. METHODS: Women with a triplet pregnancy and no other condition necessitating hospital admission were approached for participation...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Dodd JM,Crowther CA

更新日期：2005-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The first few weeks after childbirth are critical, as women may encounter lactation problems and postpartum depression during this period. However, it is still unclear whether early breastfeeding behaviours are related to the symptoms of postnatal depression (PND) in Chinese populations. Therefore, the curre...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Sha T,Gao X,Chen C,Li L,Cheng G,Wu X,Tian Q,Yang F,He Q,Yan Y

更新日期：2019-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is a major cause of maternal mortality, accounting for one quarter of all maternal deaths worldwide. Estimates of its incidence in the literature vary widely, from 3 % to 15 % of deliveries. Uterotonics after birth are the only intervention that has been shown to be effective in p...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Sentilhes L,Daniel V,Darsonval A,Deruelle P,Vardon D,Perrotin F,Le Ray C,Senat MV,Winer N,Maillard F,Deneux-Tharaux C

更新日期：2015-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Excessive weight gain during pregnancy increases the risk for negative effects on mother and child during pregnancy, delivery, and also postnatally. Excessive weight gain can be partially compensated by being sufficiently physically active, which can be measured using activity trackers. Modern activity track...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Lemmens PMC,Sartor F,Cox LGE,den Boer SV,Westerink JHDM

更新日期：2018-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:UNICEF and WHO recommend that all children should be exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months of life as breastmilk contains all the nutrients an infant needs during this period. In Malawi, exclusive breastfeeding has been declining from 72% (2009), 70.2% (2014) and 61% in the most recent survey (2015-16...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Salim YM,Stones W

更新日期：2020-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low birth weight has important short- and long-term health implications. Previously it has been shown that pregnancies affected by hyperemesis gravidarum in the mother are at higher risk of having low birth weight offspring. In this study we tested whether such risks are also evident with less severe nausea ...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Petry CJ,Ong KK,Beardsall K,Hughes IA,Acerini CL,Dunger DB

更新日期：2018-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Freebirthing or unassisted birth is the active choice made by a woman to birth without a trained professional present, even where there is access to maternity provision. This is a radical childbirth choice, which has potential morbidity and mortality risks for mother and baby. While a number of studies have ...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Feeley C,Thomson G

更新日期：2016-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objectives of this study were to explore the course of labor and the risk of obstetric anal sphincter injury at the first vaginal birth after cesarean section (fVBAC) in comparison to primiparous vaginal birth (PVB) in women without epidural analgesia and to assess if laboring before the previous cesarea...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Rusavy Z,Francova E,Paymova L,Ismail KM,Kalis V

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Auckland Stillbirth study demonstrated a two-fold increased risk of late stillbirth for women who did not go to sleep on their left side. Two further studies have confirmed an increased risk of late stillbirth with supine sleep position. As sleep position is modifiable, we surveyed self-reported late pre...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Cronin RS,Chelimo C,Mitchell EA,Okesene-Gafa K,Thompson JMD,Taylor RS,Hutchison BL,McCowan LME

更新日期：2017-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Uterine rupture is a common complication in women attempting their first virginal birth after caesarean section (VBAC) but the risk diminishes with subsequent VBACs. It occurs in rates of 0.5-9% and is influenced by various factors. CASE PRESENTATION:A unique case of uterine rupture in a Kenyan woman of Afr...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Mwenda AS

更新日期：2013-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Utilization of antenatal care (ANC) in Ethiopia was low. There was also a variation of this underutilization of ANC service from region to region in the country. Therefore, this study aimed at providing a comprehensive analysis on socio-economic and demographic determinants of utilizing ANC services in Benis...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Tiruaynet K,Muchie KF

更新日期：2019-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Probiotics are living microorganisms that, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit. It has been speculated that probiotics might help prevent preterm birth, but in two previous systematic reviews possible major increases in this risk have been suggested. Our objective was to perform a ...

journal_title：BMC pregnancy and childbirth

authors： Jarde A,Lewis-Mikhael AM,Moayyedi P,Stearns JC,Collins SM,Beyene J,McDonald SD

更新日期：2018-01-08 00:00:00