Exposure to various medications and medical conditions during pregnancy is often inevitable. Most of these exposures do not carry an elevated risk of congenital malformations. Nevertheless, misperceptions of the risks associated with different exposures in pregnancy are common and may potentially lead to wrong decisions. Unrealistically high maternal teratogenic risk perception may lead to abru...

Prenatal decision-making for myelomeningocele changed in 2011, when MOMS (Management of Myelomeningocele Study) demonstrated the effectiveness of intrauterine fetal surgery, thereby securing this intervention as an alternative to either pregnancy termination or postnatal repair. Although it is hoped that an evidence-based approach to medical decisions using the MOMS results would improve the qu...

backgroundthe current study was conducted to investigate the relationship between unwanted pregnancy based on couples’ opinions and infant nutrition type in women referred to the health centers in mashhad city and their husbands.materials and methodsin this analytical-descriptive study, unwanted or wanted progenies were studied from the viewpoints of 366 women referred to the health centers in ...

INTRODUCTION Pregnancy and the postpartum period present important intervention opportunities. Counseling can leverage the motivation women have during this time to change behaviors that may negatively affect their health and the heath of their infants. METHODS Pregnant women attending an antenatal clinic in South Africa were randomly allocated to treatment (n=733) and control arms (n=747). T...

BACKGROUND Many women, throughout their life cycle, experience unintended pregnancy and its subsequent induced abortion. Nonetheless, women's perceptions of this phenomenon - particularly in countries prohibiting elective abortion - are poorly known. The aim of this study was to explore Iranian Azeri women's perceptions of unintended pregnancy. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a conventional co...

background; reproduction is an important population concept throughout the world, and demographists consider it among four main life events. given iran's population growth policy, this study was conducted to assess the tendency to pregnancy in women in zanjan. method; from among health centers in five geographical districts in zanjan (north, south, east, west, and center), one was randomly...

BACKGROUND The cost of behavior change communication (BCC) interventions has not been rigorously studied in Bangladesh. This study was conducted to assess the implementation costs of a BCC intervention in a maternal, neonatal and child health program (Manoshi) run by BRAC, which has been operating in the urban slums of Dhaka since 2007. The study estimates the costs of BCC tools per exposure am...

The problem of stunting is one the nutritional problems faced in world, especially poor and developing countries. Stunting a form growth failure (growth faltering) due to accumulation inadequacy that lasts for long time starting from pregnancy until age 24 months. population this study were teenagers/students Man Indrapuri. sampling technique used total sampling. In study, independent variable ...