Husband Support for Their Wives in Antenatal Care Visit

An audit of antenatal care: the value of the first antenatal visit.

A critical analysis of the events recorded at the first antenatal visits in a city where all pregnant women are seen by specialist obstetricians for booking for antenatal care and confinement showed that many women attended too late for optimal care. The selection of women for their risk of complications was not very effective, partly because of failure to take account of information that was a...

Managers and Their Wives

Antenatal care visit attendance, intermittent preventive treatment and bed net use during pregnancy in Gabon

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) and insecticide treated bed nets (ITNs) must be provided during antenatal care (ANC) visits for malaria prevention during pregnancy. The aim of this study was to determine the level of ANC attendance and its relationship with IPTp-SP and bed net coverage in G...

Pregnancy wantedness, frequency and timing of antenatal care visit among women of childbearing age in Kenya

BACKGROUND A woman's health seeking behaviour during pregnancy has been found to have significant repercussions on her wellbeing and that of her unborn child. For example, the risk of poor pregnancy outcomes and maternal death is higher among women who do not receive antenatal care. METHODS The study described the characteristics of women who reported wanted, unwanted and mistimed pregnancies...

The experience of black fathers concerning support for their wives/partners during labour.

The goal of this article was to describe the experience of black fathers concerning support for their wives/partners during labour. The research design entailed an exploratory, descriptive, qualitative study that was contextual to clinical nursing. A phenomenological approach to nursing research was utilized, whereby unstructured interviews were conducted with ten black fathers. Two groups of b...