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to describe the disparity in prenatal care among women of colour in timing of initiation of prenatal care and total number of prenatal visits.a retrospective, descriptive design.a large, urban university midwifery faculty practice.439 healthy women at term (37–42 weeks gestation) with a vertex singleton pregnancy, and an essentially uncomplicated prenatal course. One clinic, the university facility,...
to describe factors related to the initiation of prenatal care (PNC) among pregnant Mexican women.descriptive correlational.public prenatal clinic in Monterrey, Mexico.253 pregnant Mexican women aged 13–46 years.structured interviews were conducted to obtain information concerning demographics, reproductive history, current pregnancy, perceptions of benefits and barriers of PNC, negative attitudes...
to explore the experiences and concerns of an African-born sample of pregnant women receiving antenatal care in Melbourne, Australia.qualitative in-depth interviews.the African Women's Clinic located in Melbourne's western suburbs, an area known for social deprivation and high numbers of recently arrived African migrants.18 pregnant African-born women were interviewed.African women receiving pregnancy...
to present the literature relating to health status and pregnancy complications among sub-Saharan African women.sub-Saharan refugee women constitute a new and growing group of maternity service users in developed countries today. These women are perceived to be at high risk of pregnancy complication, based on concurrent disease and unusual medical conditions. As a result of these concerns, midwives...
to identify midwives’ perceptions about adolescents’ failure to utilise prenatal services or to initiate such utilisation late during their pregnancies.a quantitative descriptive and exploratory design, using questionnaires to collect data, to describe midwives’ perceptions about factors influencing pregnant adolescents’ non-utilisation or late utilisation of prenatal services.20 public health centres...
to address the social aspects of pregnancy and the views of pregnant women regarding prenatal assistance in Brazil.this qualitative study was focused on describing the Social Representations of prenatal care held by pregnant women. The discourse of the collective subject (DCS) framework was used to analyse the data collected, within the theoretical background of social representations, as proposed...
to evaluate the adequacy of recorded prenatal care provided to adolescents in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.a quantitative descriptive design, using checklists to audit 80 prenatal records, based on the assumption that care recorded reflects care rendered.four clinics and two hospitals providing public prenatal and birth services in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.80 adolescents’ prenatal records were audited.recorded prenatal...
this study examined the clinical utility and precision of routine screening for alcohol and other drug use among women attending a public antenatal service.a survey of clients and audit of clinical charts.clients attending an antenatal clinic of a large tertiary hospital in Queensland, Australia, from October to December 2009.data were collected from two sources. First, 32 women who reported use of...
to assess the effect of an antenatal training programme on knowledge, self-efficacy and problems related to breast feeding and on breast-feeding duration.a randomised controlled trial.the Aarhus Midwifery Clinic, a large clinic connected to a Danish university hospital in an urban area of Denmark.a total of 1193 nulliparous women were recruited before week 21+6 days of gestation, 603 were randomised...
CenteringPregnancy (Centering) group prenatal care has been demonstrated to improve perinatal outcomes and provide a positive experience of care for women, but it can be difficult to implement and sustain in some clinical settings. The purpose of this study was to examine the challenges encountered when Centering group prenatal care was provided, and the responses of Centering group leaders to these...
to translate the Prenatal Psychosocial Profile (PPP) to be used in Brazil; to perform its cross-cultural adaptation; and to evaluate its reliability and validity.methodological study.the study was conducted in 10 prenatal care clinics at the city of Porto Alegre/Brazil.241 women pregnant women.the adaptation process consisted in: translation; first version synthesis; expert committee evaluation; back...
Intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy can have serious health consequences for mothers and newborns. The aim of the study is to explore: 1) the influence of experiencing IPV during pregnancy on delayed entry into prenatal care; and 2) whether women's decision-making autonomy and the support for traditional gender roles act to mediate or moderate the relationship between IPV and delayed...
malaria causes complications during 80% of all pregnancies in Uganda. However, only 48% of Ugandan pregnant women took one dose of intermittent preventive therapy while merely 27% took the second dose during 2011. This study investigated midwives’ provision of anti-malaria services in the Buikwe District of Uganda.a quantitative exploratory descriptive design was used.prenatal clinics (n=16) in the...
to explore written statements found in online discussion boards where parents currently expecting, or with previous experience of expecting, a child with a prenatally diagnosed congenital anomaly communicate about their emotional process from diagnosis to birth.cross-sectional qualitative study of messages in public online discussion boards.Swedish public discussion boards about reproductive subjects...
to study the effect of body mass index (BMI) on the use of antenatal care by women in midwife-led care.an explorative cohort study.11 Dutch midwife-led practices.a cohort of 4421 women, registered in the Midwifery Case Registration System (VeCaS), who received antenatal care in midwife-led practices in the Netherlands and gave birth between October 2012 and October 2014.the mean start of initiation...
this study aimed to explore the enablers and barriers to implementation of the Australian smoking cessation in pregnancy guidelines. These guidelines direct clinicians to follow the 5As of cessation: Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist and Arrange follow-up.semi-structured interviews based on the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) elicited clinicians’ views and experiences of implementing the guidelines...
To determine the knowledge, attitudes and learning needs of midwives regarding antenatal vaccination. A cross-sectional, paper-based survey of midwives employed at the only public tertiary maternity hospital in the Australian state of Western Australia between November 2015 and July 2016. 252 midwives providing care in antepartum, intrapartum, and/or postpartum settings. Self-reported responses...
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