Introduction: In Iran little attention has been paid to the important role of husband’s support in promoting maternal health. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between perceived social support from family in pregnant women and pregnancy-related factors. Methods: The study included 358 postpartum women in the second half of the year 2014 in Fatemiyeh Hospital in Shahroud, North Ea...

Personal goals are difficult to achieve and healthy habits are not as simple to maintain as people would like to. Often, humans look for help to change unwanted behavior. Technology could help us to overcome the daily struggle faced during the search for behavior improvement. The Persuasive Mirror is an example of how computerize persuasion, in the form of visual feedback, could give the needed...

BACKGROUND Early antenatal care (ANC) initiation is a doorway to early detection and management of potential complications associated with pregnancy. Although the literature reports various factors associated with ANC initiation such as parity and age, pregnancy intentions is yet to be recognized as a possible predictor of timing of ANC initiation. METHODS Data originate from a cross-sectiona...

OBJECTIVE To explore women's experience of unwanted pregnancy and induced abortion in Bolivia, where nearly all induced abortions are carried out in clandestine, unregulated, and unsafe conditions. METHODS Qualitative and quantitative research methods, including focus group discussions, in-depth interviews and a structured survey of women of reproductive age, were used to explore the experien...

There is surprising evidence that the number of unwanted pregnancies ending in abortions has held relatively constant in France for the past twenty years, notwithstanding the spread of modern contraceptive methods which can be assumed to be highly effective. We first review the circumstances of modern contraceptive prevalence, then attempt to identify whether it has been consistent across all s...

Qualitative data gathered from women in Nairobi, Kenya, were used to explore decision making in relation to unwanted pregnancy. Gender, livelihoods, morality, marital status, and male partners exerted extensively complex and multidimensional influence on women’s management of their unintentional pregnancies. For instance, although gender norms were frequently invoked to justify terminating unwa...

Where pregnancy tests are unavailable, health providers, fearing possible harm to fetuses, often deny contraception to nonmenstruating clients. In Kenya, a trial of a simple checklist to exclude pregnancy showed a good negative predictive value, which could improve access to service and reduce unwanted pregnancies and their sequelae.