background: to assess the effect of method of delivery on women's mental health to improve of health status. methods: eleven hundred healthy women who had recently either normal vaginal delivery (nvd) or cesarean section (cs) were studied 6 week after delivery in 2005. the data were collected with using the 36-items short-form (sf-36) questionnaire by interviewing method. spss software version ...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background : routine episiotomy is a controversial issue among gynecologists. the aim of this study was to compare early maternal and neonatal complications of restrictive episiotomy and routine episiotomy in primiparus vaginal delivery. methods : in this descriptive cross-sectional study, two groups of primiparus normal vaginal delivery (nvd) cases...

in this descriptive study, we investigated how mother and infant rooming method after delivery are implementing in academic hospitals of tehran university of medical sciences in 1993. in this research, fifteen wards include post delivery ward, surgical ward that mothers after cesarean section hospitalized in them and jointed ward that mothers who underwent cesarean section and normal vaginal de...

background: third stage of labor has been defined as the most dangerous stage. due to the importance of the third stage, this study was performed in order to determine its length and related factors. materials and methods: this research is a cross sectional study which was carried out on 1000 deliveries in shabihkhani hospital (kashan-iran). inclusion criteria consist of gestational age of high...

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introduction: newborns should be evaluated immediately after birth and the traditional way of assessing is to use the apgar score. the aim of this study was to estimate the apgar score and evaluate the first 24 hour- clinical outcome of babies born at yazd hospitals. methods: in a descriptive cross-sectional study, apgar score was assessed for 462 newborns at the 4 centers of afshar, madar, kar...

BACKGROUND Our aim was to determine the service quality of delivered care for people with Caesarean Section and Normal Delivery. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted among 200 people who had caesarean section and normal delivery in Al-Zahra Teaching Hospital in Tabriz, north western Iran. Service quality was calculated using: Service Quality = 10 - (Importance × Performance) based on...

LABOR: DEFINITION AND PHYSIOLOGY Labor is defined as the process by which the fetus is expelled from the uterus. More specifically, labor requires regular, effective contractions that lead to dilation and effacement of the cervix. This chapter describes the physiology and normal characteristics of term labor and delivery. The physiology of labor initiation has not been completely elucidated, bu...