Chronic pain is associated with significant costs to individuals directly affected by this condition, their families, the healthcare system, and the society as a whole. This paper investigates the relationship between chronic pain and life satisfaction using a sample of around 90,000 observations from the first ten waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics of Australia Survey (HILDA), ...

PURPOSE To determine the prevalence and risk factors of lateral epicondylitis in a mountain village in Japan. METHODS 176 men and 246 women aged 24 to 86 (mean, 61) years from a mountain village in Japan underwent regular medical examination and completed a self-administered questionnaire with items related to gender, weight, height, dominant hand, heaviness of labour (no job, light, intermed...

Women have traditionally been high users of complementary therapies and use of these therapies continues during pregnancy and birthing. While women look to acupuncture and other therapies to support them during this time, traditional maternity services are in a state of change. In Australia, there is an increase in births, a workforce crisis, an increase in birthing in labour ward settings, few...

Original Article Objective(s) : Aim of study was to determine effect of epidural analgesia on progress of labour and mode of delivery, to find out its complications in labour and puerperium and to evaluate neonatal out come in terms of apgar score. Method(s) : The present study was conducted in department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Acharya Vinoba Bhave Rural Hospital, Sawangi (Meghe), War...

AIMS The aim of the current study was to examine the perception of pain by labouring women and their attendant midwife, from the onset of labour to delivery. RATIONALE Accurate measurement and appropriate management of pain is a significant problem for attendant medical and nursing personnel. Both the experience and perception of pain are regarded as subjective and are therefore difficult to ...

BACKGROUND Most women use some method of pain relief during labour. There is extensive research evidence available of pharmacological pain relief during labour; however this evidence is not readily available to pregnant women. Decision aids are tools that present evidence based information and allow preference elicitation. METHODS We developed a labour analgesia decision aid. Using a RCT desi...

BACKGROUND Dissatisfaction with childbirth care can have a negative impact on a woman's health and well-being, as well as her relationships with her infant. AIM To investigate the prevalence and associated factors of dissatisfaction with intrapartum care by Jordanian women. METHOD A descriptive cross-sectional study was used. Participants (n = 320) who were 7 weeks post-partum were recruite...