background and purpose: prenatal health behaviors encompass different health-promoting behaviors in women of reproductive age, which improve physical and mental health, as well as pregnancy outcomes. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of prenatal training on the health-promoting behaviors of the women of reproductive age. materials and methods: this randomized controlled clinical trial was...

Background Nowadays, one of the most components of clinical governance is to held childbirth education classes for pregnant women. On the other hand, assessment of patient’s satisfaction from the services is the most important indicators of quality of services and monitoring health services. So patient satisfaction has an important role in medical care. Therefore consideration of patient’s expe...

objective: to study maternal and neonatal outcomes, the nulliparous women submitted to a training program in third trimester. materials and methods: this randomized controlled trial was carried out on 64 nulliparous pregnant women divided into two groups according to their participation including; training group; n=34 or not; n=34. the program consisted of 8 meetings (between the 28 th and the ...

conclusions the pregnancy adaptation training package increased the adaptation and maternal-fetal attachment scores in pregnant women with a history of baby loss. results before the intervention, there were no statistically significant differences between the study and control groups in terms of maternal-fetal attachment (p = 0.280) and adaptation to pregnancy (p = 0.883). however, following th...

Prenatal stress results in various learning, behavioral and emotional alterations observed in later life. However, the mechanisms underlying these effects of prenatal stress are not fully understood. In the present study we examined the impact of prenatal stress (an unpredictable restraint stress) during gestational days 13 to 20 on the performance in Morris water maze and passive avoidance tra...

BACKGROUND There is a growing trend within family medicine residency training programs to implement group prenatal care programs. While the clinical benefits of group prenatal care have been well documented, there have been no published studies to date evaluating the educational impact of using group prenatal care in residency training programs. METHODS A retrospective cohort study of both pa...