The aim of this study was to identify the socio-demographic characteristics, knowledge, attitude and accessibility factors related to the utilization of antenatal care (ANC) service among pregnant women in the Kham District, Laos. Data for this cross-sectional study were collected in July 2008, using a two-stage cluster sampling strategy from 24 selected villages in the Kham District. A total o...

BACKGROUND Pregnancy is a good time to develop healthy lifestyle habits including regular exercise and good nutrition. Programs of physical exercise for pregnant women have been recommended; however, there are few references on this subject in the literature. The objective of this study was to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practice of pregnant women with respect to appropriate physical e...

Breastfeeding is the recommended feeding for all healthy infants. The aim of our study was to assess the current state of breastfeeding prevalence, duration and behaviour in Bavaria, Germany as a basis for targeting breastfeeding promotion measures. The Bavarian Breastfeeding Study is a prospective cohort study of 3822 mothers who delivered in April 2005 in Bavaria, Germany. Breastfeeding durat...

Women decision making is giving legitimate power or authority to perform the tasks. If women were free take their own decisions, they would be able participate in planning and task contribute development programmes activities individually. The process of freedom should start from our home. Womens position household determines womens autonomy family. It worth examine whether she can decide about...

OBJECTIVE Knowledge, attitude and practice of pregnant women toward prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV infection have not been evaluated in any tertiary health facility in the Northeast region of Nigeria. METHODS A structured questionnaire was used to obtain data from 172 women that consecutively attended the antenatal clinic of University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital to dete...

In 2011, the American Thyroid association published guidelines concerning the attitude toward maternal thyroid (dys)function during pregnancy and postpartum. The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists also -recommend a case-finding approach although several studies has shown that up to 50% of women with thyroid dysfunction will be missed. Recently, it was shown that 0.6% of all pregn...

To describe the self-reported oral health knowledge, attitudes and oral hygiene habits, among pregnant women receiving antenatal care at the Lagos State University teaching Hospital (LASUTH). A cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey was conducted at the LASUTH antenatal clinic during the period January - June 2008. Most of the respondents demonstrated a reasonable level of oral health knowl...

Arguably the biggest challenge in analyzing English tense is to account for the double access interpretation, which arises when a present tensed verb is embedded under a past attitude—e.g. John said that Mary is pregnant. Presentunder-past does not always result in a felicitous utterance, however—cf. #John believed that Mary is pregnant. While such oddity has been noted, the contrast has never ...