OBJECTIVE to investigate midwives' attitudes and opinions on mode of birth. DESIGN exploratory descriptive study. Data were collected via study-specific questionnaires during 2006. SETTING southeastern Sweden. PARTICIPANTS all midwives working in two counties. FINDINGS regardless of age, experience and working field, the midwives considered a reasonable caesarean rate to be around 11.5 ...

The use of video during birth for quality of care was discussed in focus groups with women, nurses, midwives and doctors. Qualitative analysis revealed three categories of importance. First, goals and benefits: improving quality of care, teaching, research and legal issues are important potential applications. Second, limitations: concerns for privacy, fear of feedback and use of video in case ...

Background: Birth of premature infants and their admission in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are unexpected crises for the fathers. Therefore, raising the awareness of fathers regarding their experiences in such conditions could be helpful in the care of these neonates. The present study aimed to investigate the experiences of the fathers of the premature infants admitted in the NICU. ...

background: despite the negative effect of fear of falling during functioning and social participation of patients with parkinson' disease, so far, only few studies have investigated its effect on the quality of life in these patients. we aimed to investigate the association between fear of falling and quality of life controlling for balance impairments based on hip and ankle strategy in d...

BACKGROUND Approximately one third of children who meet criteria for conduct problems (CP) are also characterized by elevated callous-unemotional (CU) traits. This subgroup is at elevated risk for more pervasive and extreme levels of later antisocial behavior and has been characterized by a fearlessness temperament and blunted stress psychophysiology at older ages. The objective of this study w...

introduction: one of the hallmark symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd) is the impaired extinction of traumatic memory. single prolonged stress (sps) has been suggested as an animal model of ptsd, since sps rats exhibited the impaired fear extinction. oxytocin (oxt) has been recently suggested as a potential pharmacotherapy for treatment of ptsd. in this study, using sps rats we inve...

Designing the maternity ward of hospitals is crucial due to the special conditions of mothers before, during, and after birth. Numerous environmental factors affect mothers, and it calls for an evidence-based design of these spaces. Although many investigations have drawn their attention to the issue, there is a paucity of research in terms of the significance of the birth environment factors. ...