OBJECTIVE To assess our prospective mother-child cohort and the national registry data to analyze the risk of asthma by delivery mode and whether cesarean delivery before or after membrane rupture affects this risk differently. STUDY DESIGN The Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood2000 is a high-risk birth cohort of 411 Danish children. Asthma was diagnosed prospectively by ph...

BACKGROUND The proportion of women who attempt vaginal delivery after prior cesarean delivery has decreased largely because of concern about safety. The absolute and relative risks associated with a trial of labor in women with a history of cesarean delivery, as compared with elective repeated cesarean delivery without labor, are uncertain. METHODS We conducted a prospective four-year observa...

BACKGROUND Mode of delivery at first childbirth largely determines mode of delivery at subsequent births, so it is particularly important to understand risk factors for cesarean delivery at first childbirth. In this study, we investigated risk factors for cesarean delivery among nulliparous women, with focus on the association between labor induction and cesarean delivery. METHODS A prospecti...

background : there has always been an asking question with physicians and health staff whether delivery mode can effect on child intelligence. this study was conducted to compare the intelligence quotient (iq) of school aged children delivered by cesarean section and vaginal delivery in mashhad, iran. methods : this study conducted in two stages; a cross-sectional section in which 5000 randomly...

ba ck g r oun d  & aim: childbirth related fear (crf) causes pregnant women  to select cesarean section (cs) without a medical reason. the purpose of this study was to determine reasons for delivery related fear and associated factors in pregnant women. methods & materials: a descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted on 315 pregnant wom- en who were in the last trimester. participants we...

background: to assess the effect of method of delivery on women's mental health to improve of health status. methods: eleven hundred healthy women who had recently either normal vaginal delivery (nvd) or cesarean section (cs) were studied 6 week after delivery in 2005. the data were collected with using the 36-items short-form (sf-36) questionnaire by interviewing method. spss software version ...

background: according to the world health organization, the acceptable range for cesarean delivery is only 10-15% of the total delivery. increased  rate of cesarean can increase maternal mortality rate. statistics from provinces in iran shows that the rate of unnecessary caesareans is growing in the country. methods: this qualitative research evaluated the comments of 20 mothers who had caesare...

abstract background: noorabad-e-mamasani has the highest rate of delivery by cesarean section in fars province. cesarean section, as a large surgical operation, is accompanied with some side effects that sometimes get very dangerous and rarely lethal. the present investigation aims to determine the effects of a health belief model-based educational intervention on decreasing cesarean sections a...

objective: to evaluate the increased rate of cesarean section in recent decades and natural desire of women probably due to social, economic& cultural issues in our country. while that in many cases, vaginal delivery can be replaced by unnecessary cesarean. in the absence of need the trend of cesarean section has implications for both future healthy populations and the equitable distribution of...

in this descriptive study, we investigated how mother and infant rooming method after delivery are implementing in academic hospitals of tehran university of medical sciences in 1993. in this research, fifteen wards include post delivery ward, surgical ward that mothers after cesarean section hospitalized in them and jointed ward that mothers who underwent cesarean section and normal vaginal de...