BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate whether a nursing intervention program using abdominal palpation would improve maternal-fetal relationships of pregnant women. METHODS The subjects were Japanese women aged less than 40 years with singleton pregnancies. A nursing intervention involving abdominal palpations of Leopold's Maneuvers was performed for the intervention group (n = ...

conclusions the results have shown a significant negative correlation between secure style and marital dissatisfaction. there were positive significant relationships between marital dissatisfaction and variables of insecure style, ambivalent style, difficulty in identifying emotions, and externally oriented thinking, but there was not any significant relationship between marital dissatisfaction...

Placenta is the mirror of fetomaternal status. The effect anemia in pregnancy can be diverse and detrimental to mother fetus. placenta also plays an impor­tant role hormone production releases hormones into both maternal fetal circulations affect pregnancy, metabolism, growth, parturition. Earlier developing countries women often become anemic during because demand iron vitamins will increase. ...

aim and background: insecure attachment style is one of the important effective factors in many mental disorders. the aim of this study was to compare the positive, negative and disorganized schizotypal characteristics in secure, avoidance and anxiety attachment patterns among students of tabriz university, iran. methods and materials: in this cross-sectional descriptive study 300 students (150...

forgiveness and empathy are factors which are influential in improving the relationships between people, themselves can be affected by various factors in turn. the purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between the styles of attachment to god and forgiveness and empathy among female students in the city of qom. 250 students were selected from the city of qom by cluster sam...

background: the discovery of circulating fetal dna in maternal blood led to the discovery of new strategies to perform noninvasive testing for prenatal diagnosis. objective: the purpose of the study was to detect fetal aneuploidy at chromosomes 13, 18, 21, x, and y by analysis of fetal cell-free dna from maternal blood, without endangering pregnancy. materials and methods: this retrospective st...