What is the best way for first-time parents to prepare for childbirth? Overwhelmingly, women and their partners value formal childbirth education classes, books, and the emerging Internetbased resources. Do these sources meet the needs of first-time parents? We conducted an online survey of 120 participants. We found that participants that had nobody present for continuous support during labor ...

BACKGROUND Most women delivering in South African State Maternity Hospitals do not have a childbirth companion; in addition, the quality of care could be better, and at times women are treated inhumanely. We piloted a multi-faceted intervention to encourage uptake of childbirth companions in state hospitals, and hypothesised that lay carers would improve the behaviour of health professionals. ...

Background & Objective: Although giving birth is quite a natural process in woman's life; it very painful. Different people, however, experience this pain on different levels. In fact, one's perception of labor determined by physiological, cultural, social, mental, and psychological factors. The present study aims to investigate the relationship between personality traits pain.Materials Methods...

OBJECTIVE To determine the long term effects of a conservative nurse-led intervention for postnatal urinary incontinence. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING Community based intervention in three centres in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS 747 women with urinary incontinence at three months after childbirth, of whom 516 were followed up again at 6 years (69%). IN...

We utilise a new household survey to examine the impact of education and job training on labour income for migrant workers in China. Quantile regression is employed to account for selection bias. The evidence has as follows: (a) the returns to education and work experience are considerable but non-linear; (b) job training is valuable; (c) the Hukou system of residence is a severe constraint on ...

abstract objective:anxiety of pregnancy influences the childbirth factors and pregnancy outcomes. mindfulness is an approach that can be used to control this anxiety. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of mindfulness-based islamic- spiritual schemas on pregnancy anxiety in pregnant women and their infants' physiological parameters.   method: this study was a pre- experimenta...

BACKGROUND After the launch of Janani Suraksha Yojana, a conditional cash transfer scheme in India, the proportion of women giving birth in institutions has rapidly increased. However, there are important gaps in quality of childbirth services during institutional deliveries. The aim of this intervention was to improve the quality of childbirth services in selected high caseload public health f...

With the new screening and treatment guidelines and the prospect of human papillomavirus vaccination for adolescents, the current total volume of Papanicolaou (Pap) tests will be significantly reduced. We used available data to assess the current supply and demand in the cytotechnology labor market and how an expected change in Pap test volume impacts this market. Cytotechnologists' data were o...