BACKGROUND Many women stop smoking during pregnancy but relapse shortly afterwards, potentially putting their infants at risk of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure. Women who were able to stop during pregnancy may be a motivated group, receptive to making behaviour changes postpartum to protect their infant from SHS exposure. Understanding more about their experiences of relapse, and if this influ...

BACKGROUND While many are familiar with postpartum depression, the phenomenon of postpartum post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is less well known and investigated. OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence of postpartum PTSD in a cohort of women in Israel and examine factors affecting its development. METHODS Eighty-nine women completed several ratings immediately post-delivery and after a mon...

Objective: To explore Somali new mothers’ experiences with the Norwegian health care system and their experienced needs during the hospital stay and the postpartum period. Methods: A qualitative design with individual semistructured interviews. Qualitative content analysis was used to analyze the transcripts from the interviews. Results: Ten women aged 25 to 34 years were interviewed. The women...

BACKGROUND Although disaster causes distress, many disaster victims do not develop long-term psychopathology. Others report benefits after traumatic experiences (posttraumatic growth). The objective of this study was to examine demographic and hurricane-related predictors of resilience and posttraumatic growth. METHODS We interviewed 222 pregnant southern Louisiana women and 292 postpartum wo...

As Biocca pointed out, the “two poles model“ of presence has only considered the virtual and pyshical spaces, but not the imaginary spaces. This work is aimed at comparing the sense of presence between virtual and imaginary environments. 100 participants were randomly assigned to one of the two conditions (imagined versus virtual spaces) and the subjective sense of presence was measured in thre...

We describe the ``WEDGE'' immersive projection theater. The WEDGE has been built as an affordable installation for university VR infrastructure in Australia. It achieves a ``semi-immersive'' sense of presence without, apparently, give rise to significant discomfort. The vertex region of the theater appears to be especially effective in giving a sense of presence. See http://wedge.anu.edu.au/ fo...

Researcher at the Transport and environment laboratory of the national institute of research on transport and their security (INRETS-LTE) i Acoustical engineer at the Transport and environment laboratory of the national institute of research on transport and their security (INRETS-LTE)

A global resurgence of interest in the intrauterine device (IUD) as an effective long-acting reversible contraceptive and in improving access to a wide range of contraceptive methods, as well as an emphasis on encouraging women to give birth in health care facilities, has led programs to introduce postpartum IUD (PPIUD) services into postpartum family planning (PPFP) programs. We describe strat...