This study investigates whether the expansion of day-care places for under-three-year-old children in East and West Germany from 2007 to 2011 has improved the subjective wellbeing for mothers and fathers with a youngest child in this age group. We extend existing cross-sectional country comparisons and single country policy evaluations by comparing regional variations over time in two different...

Objective: This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of different birth balls used at first stage labor on fetal head descent, pain intensity, and maternal satisfaction.
 Methods: a single-blind, randomized controlled experimental design. It was conducted with 180 primipara women in maternity hospital Erzurum, Turkey between October 2018 December 2019. Women were into 3 groups: A=Con...

Objective: To assess maternal satisfaction following two anaesthetic techniques (general and epidural anaesthesia) for repeat Caesarean section. Design: Prospective study. Setting: University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. Subjects: One hundred and twenty parturients scheduled for elective Caesarean

The authors examined the relationship between maternal depression, paternal psychopathology, and adolescent diagnostic outcomes in a community sample of 522 Australian families. They also examined whether chronic family stress, father's expressed emotion, and parents' marital satisfaction mediated the relationship between parental psychopathology and adolescent outcomes. Mother's education, chi...

INTRODUCTION Hospital anxiety and surgery has an unpleasant and disturbing feeling for a child and his/her family. This study aimed to determine the effect of toys and visit in reducing children's anxiety before the surgery and their mothers and satisfaction with the treatment process. METHODS This was a quasi-experimental study in posttest design with a control group. 60 children aged 3 to 8...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have found associations between maternal and family factors and child eating disorder symptoms. However, it is not clear whether family factors predict eating disorder symptoms specifically, or relate to more general child psychopathology, of which eating disorder symptoms may be one component. This study aimed to identify maternal and family factors that may predict...