background: unwanted pregnancies and their complications are one of the major problems facing women in the world. this study aimed to determine the factors that affect unwanted pregnancy in the population covered by the shahroud university of medical sciences in 2013. methods: in this case-control study, 116 cases and 251 controls were randomly selected from those who referred to health care ce...

Historically females of all ages have been underrepresented in clinical research. Reasons for this exclusion are multifactorial and may possibly have their origins in regulation that forbid the participation of females of childbearing potential in the earliest phase clinical studies that support drug approval. Decades of female underrepresentation in clinical studies has resulted in inequality ...

in recent decades, the fertility rate in iran has gone through dramatic changes due to different reasons. one of these reasons is women’s increasing participation in the workforce and modern employment which has imposed changes to the childbearing behavior. on the other hand, working women face different challenges regarding childbearing. the present qualitative study investigates the childbear...

the purpose of the study is to show in which trimester of pregnancy is fatigue more common among working women, and whether or not there is any relationship between fatigue rate and educational level, income, etc. this is a longitudinal study. from the total number of patients who came to zeinab university hospital, 100 completed a demographics 50 item questionnaire and the numerical rating sca...

background and purpose: childbirth is a normal physiological process and a family event. women in various societies with different cultural backgrounds have diverse reasons for childbearing. understanding the reasons behind childbearing might help overcome some issues associated with early/late reproduction, or lack of desire to give birth. this study was an attempt to develop, validate, and st...

To understand the consequences of adolescent pregnancy and childbearing on siblings, a study compares 309 younger brothers and sisters of pregnant, parenting and never-pregnant teenagers. Compared with the younger siblings of never-pregnant teenagers, the younger sisters of pregnant teenagers see school and career as less important, are more accepting of adolescent childbearing, perceive younge...