Escalating adolescent pregnancy and risky sexual behaviour is becoming more common amongst young adolescents and especially amongst black adolescents in South Africa. Statistics confirm that South African adolescents as young as fourteen are already sexually active and become pregnant. The decision to become sexually active with resulting adolescent pregnancy whether planned or not, are directl...

OBJECTIVE Midwives may play an important role in oral health promotion of pregnant women, whom they are in close contact with. Our aim was to evaluate an educational intervention on the oral health attitude and practices among the junior midwifery students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2010. MATERIALS AND METHODS The junior midwifery students were divided into intervention (n=29...

A survey study aimed at identifying rates and predictive factors on utilization of skilled birth attendant (SBA) among pregnant women. A stratified random sampling technique was used to select 200 Myanmar women aged 18 to 49 years in Kalay Township. Data were collected by interview questionnaire from March 1 to 15, 2012, and data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviati...

Pregnancy is a normal physical state of womens life when they carried 9 month developmental stages the foetus. On these durations some pregnancy induced changes leads signs naturally but there an increased risk musculoskeletal pain or discomforts associated with increase uterine size and mental stress pregnant women, needed non-medicines approached like antenatal physiotherapy care. These possi...

Background: Pregnant women and breastfeeding who are infected with the COVID-19 virus have a high risk, but pregnant breastfeed not included in initial vaccine trial for coronavirus 19 (COVID-19). There currently no clinical data on use of mRNA lactating women. Aim: This study aims to get picture about nurse’s knowledge, attitude supervision, its relationship implementation pain reassessment. M...

BACKGROUND In Pakistan maternal mortality rate (MMR) is very high and more than one in five women die from pregnancy related causes; solution to this is to have low fertility rate. The emergency contraceptives (ECs) can be used to prevent unwanted pregnancies. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice about ECs among doctors. METHODS Institution-based cross-sect...

BACKGROUND Ultrasound has become a routine part of care for pregnant women in Uganda, being one of a range of techniques used in screening. However, it differs from most others because it allows women to view their babies. Routine obstetric sonography is now globally recognized as one of the ways through which maternal mortality can be reduced. This study aimed at finding out the knowledge, att...

OBJECTIVE The prenatal period is the best time for health interventions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of different methods of anticipatory guidance presentation on the change of knowledge and attitude of pregnant women regarding oral healthcare in the mother, infant and toddler. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this quasi-experimental study, 90 pregnant women attended one health ...