abstract background: sleep disorders like snoring, mouth breathing, and insomnia are frequent in pregnancy and studies have shown that poor sleep is linked to obstetric complications. muscle relaxation technique is an effective method used for improving sleep quality. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of muscle relaxation technique on fetal outcomes in complicated pregnancie...

BACKGROUND In most low-income countries, many women with high-risk pregnancies and complications do not reach the referral hospitals despite the provision of referral advice. OBJECTIVE To explore how antenatal maternal referral advice is understood and handled in a rural Tanzanian community. METHODS Individual in-depth interviews were conducted with six women who did not go to hospital and ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between unintended pregnancy and the initiation and duration of breastfeeding. STUDY DESIGN This was a secondary data analysis of the 1995 Cycle 5 of the National Survey of Family Growth. POPULATION We studied 6733 first singleton live births to US women aged 15 years to 44 years. OUTCOMES Using the 1995 Institute of Medicine definitions, pregnancies w...

The aim of this study was to investigate the posttraumatic growth (PTG) after high risk pregnancy. Data were collected from 183 women who had obstetrical high risk using self-administered questionnaire including scales of Korean-Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (K-PTGI). Women were recruited from nine hospitals in P city, U city, and K-do in Korea. Women reported PTG in a moderate to great degree...

The aim of the work was to identify characteristics of pregnant women cared for by an obstetric nurse in a visit to the prenatal outpatient nursing service and compare these over the period from 1972 to 2009. Sociodemographic and obstetric data were collected from the forms completed by the pregnant patients during their visit to the nursing service. A total of 1245 forms were analyzed 208 (16....

Twin gestations frequently involve maternal and fetal complications, and are quite often considered as "premium" pregnancies. Hence, many clinicians that follow the cliche "no high risk pregnancy should end with a high risk delivery" may deliver twins by CS for many subtle reasons, other than clear-cut, evidence-based, indications. Thus, the decision for a CS in twins, intentionally or not, is ...

abstract background: improving the utilization rate of antenatal care is a critical strategy for achieving the reproductive health goals in iran. the aim of this study was to assess the utilization rate of antenatal care (anc) by women after health sector reform (hsr) interventions in rural areas of islamic republic of iran (ir iran). materials and methods: this is a retrospective cross-section...

OBJECTIVE To review the statistical approaches to test for spatial heterogeneity of relative risks. Three different statistical tests (Gail, Martuzzi-Hills and Potthoff-Whittinghill) are reviewed and applied--as motivating example--to the analysis of cause-specific mortality records (years: 1991-2000) of the Municipalities belonging to the Local Health Unit Alto Vicentino. METHODS Spatial het...