STUDY OBJECTIVE To test the stress hypothesis by characterising women during their first pregnancy who continue to smoke in early pregnancy in comparison with women who quit smoking, with special reference to psychosocial factors like social network, social support, demands, and control in work and daily life. DESIGN The study is based on a cohort of primigravidas followed during pregnancy. D...

BACKGROUND The present study was designed to compare the serum leptin levels in normal pregnancies with those pregnancies which are complicated by pre-eclampsia and to investigate the possibility of leptin being a marker of severity of pre-eclampsia. METHODS This was a comparative cross-sectional study, conducted at the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetric, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Cent...

Objective: To compare extra-abdominal vs intra-abdominal repair of the uterine incision at cesarean delivery in Pakistan. Methods: This was a randomized controlled trial conducted at the Gynae Unit III, Lady Willingdon hospital Lahore. Inclusion criteria were indication for cesarean delivery and gestational age of 36 weeks or more in primigravidas. Patients with previous cesarean deliveries, ch...

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...

: A randomised Controlled trial to assess the role of an individualised introduction labour given after 37 weeks gestation in allaying anxiety prior delivery and birth satisfaction, primi-gravidas After obtaining approval from ethics committee, antenatal mothers, booked for this hospital, who gave written informed consent, were randomized Group (Interventional group) B (comparator group). The A...

Navorsingsontwerp Tweehonderd-en-sestig primigravidas wat in gestabiliseerde baring was met geen verloskundige komplikasies, en wat geen ondersteuner by haar gehad het nie, het toestemming verleen om aan die studie deel te neem. Hulle was ewekansig toegewys om addisionele ondersteuning deur 'n “doula” gedurende baring te ontvang, of die gewone standaard prosedure van verpleegsorg te ontvang. Di...