OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy, safety, and maternal satisfaction of a newly established integrative postpartum community-based clinic providing comprehensive support for mothers during the first month after discharge from the hospital. Our primary interests were breastfeeding rates, readmission and patient satisfaction. METHODS A randomized controlled trial was conducted in Ottawa, Canad...

Abstract Given recent sociocultural and economic changes that have created significant pressures on South Korean mothers, we were interested in understanding the factors might contribute to their sense of competence taking challenges childrearing. We examined several family conditions theoretically supportive mothers’ parenting self-efficacy (PSE), specifically whether PSE was associated with m...

The Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Stress Management Training on Marital Commitment and Communication Beliefs in Mothers with Low Satisfaction

COMPARISON OF THE SUPPORTIVE EFFECT A DOULA WITH SELECTED TRAINED COMPANION DURING CHILDBIRTH ON FEAR AND SATISFACTION IN TEENAGE MOTHERS

Background: One of the most important indicators of quality of services and monitoring health services is evaluation and assessment of patient satisfaction of services that comes from sociology research. Aim: To identify the effect of providing post partum care at home on maternal received care and satisfaction. Method: This clinical trial was carried out on 200 mothers who referred to Akbar Ab...

OBJECTIVE To compare a combination of epidural fentanyl and bupivacaine with bupivacaine alone for epidural analgesia in labour and to evaluate factors in addition to analgesia that may influence maternal satisfaction. DESIGN A prospective randomised pilot study. SETTING Birmingham Maternity Hospital. SUBJECTS 85 primiparous women who requested epidural analgesia in labour and their babie...

The Universal Child Care Benefit, introduced in 2006, was an income transfer for Canadian families with young children. I exploit this exogenous increase in income to answer the following questions: (1) Is there a relationship between income and mental health among Canadian mothers? (2) Is it corroborated by other measures of well-being (i.e. stress, life satisfaction)? (3) Is the effect differ...

Background: Leukemia is the most common type of cancer in childhood. Mothers are closer to these children than anyone else and play a very important role in caring for them; therefore studying their life quality is needed. This study aims to determine the life quality of mothers of children with leukemia and its related factors.   Method: This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out ...