AIMS To assess pregnant women's opinions on and perceptions of oral health and their relationship to oral hygiene and dental care practices. METHODS Questionnaire survey on perceived oral health, oral hygiene and utilization of dental services among 649 nulliparae attending for antenatal care at all public antenatal clinics in Adelaide, South Australia. RESULTS Women rated their general hea...

The proportion of pregnant women initiating prenatal care during first trimester pregnancy is one of the standard clinical performance measures to assess the quality of maternal health care. Aiming to assess the proportion and factors associated with late booking at antenatal care, this health-institution based cross-sectional study was conducted from April to June 2012 among 390 pregnant mothe...

INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to present the Swedish Pregnancy Register and to explore regional differences in maternal characteristics, antenatal care, first trimester combined screening and delivery outcomes in Sweden. MATERIAL AND METHODS The Pregnancy Register (www.graviditetsregistret.se) collects data on pregnancy and childbirth, starting at the first visit to antenatal c...

Concept of preconception care, ‘care before pregnancy’, has emerged in recent years, as a potentially vital tool, not only for improving adolescent girls’ and women’s health during pregnancy, birth, but also future health. Objective: Study was done to collect information, about preconception care for better pregnancy outcome, future health of women. Methodology: Information was collected by sim...

Introduction:Antenatal care is the daily health management of healthy pregnant women with few symptoms, orderly diagnosis diseases or difficulties connected to obstetrics, and contributing lifestyle, pregnancy, antenatal care, safe delivery child.
 Objective:To assess knowledgeof Care among Pregnant Rural Population
 Material Methods:The study was conducted at rural areas Gujrat city ...

Create a compelling image that represents a promising concept, and people are more likely to discover it, understand it, identify with it and support it [1–3]. Add context with an obvious and compelling strategy, some significant resources and a pressing need— reducing unintended pregnancy rates in the US as soon as possible, for example — and you have great potential for rapid and sustainable ...

BACKGROUND Women with type 1 diabetes are at high risk of complications during both pregnancy and childbirth. Stringent monitoring of blood sugar is required in order to improve the chance of giving birth to a healthy child; however, this increases the incidence of severe hypoglycaemia. The aim of this study was to explore the need for and experience of professional support during pregnancy and...

Pt~tposc: Adolescent childbearing is twice as common among Native Americans as among all US races combined. Despite this, little is written about lhe psychosocial context or prenatal care of pregnant Native American adolescents. The objective of this study was to explore the reactions and prenatal care of Navajo and Apache adolescents delivering infants at Shiprock I’ndian Hospital, New Mexico,...

BACKGROUND We aimed to assess the potential usefulness of primary care data in the UK for estimating smoking prevalence in pregnancy by comparing the primary care data estimates with those obtained from other data sources. METHODS In The Health Improvement Network (THIN) primary care database, we identified pregnant smokers using smoking information recorded during pregnancy. Where this infor...

In previous analyses of the 1988 National Maternal and Infant Health Survey (NMIHS) and the 1988 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), we found that after differences in demographic and socioeconomic characteristics were taken into account, mothers who had intended to conceive were more likely than those who had not to recognize their pregnancy within the first six weeks and to initiate pren...