background: pre-pregnancy care is considered as the services assessing and reducing the pregnancy risks through providing medical care and mental support. therefore, a pre-pregnancy counseling protocol was prepared based on a series of guidelines. this study aimed to determine the effect of the protocol on pregnancy and labor indices. methods: this was a four-phase field study conducted in four...

Background Psychological interventions such as counseling for infertile patients seem to increase pregnancy rate. Objective The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to examine if counseling improves pregnancy rate among infertile patients. Thus, randomized controlled trials investigating the effect of counseling on pregnancy rate in infertile patients undergoing ART were pooled...

This study examines contraceptive counseling received by adult women in their managed care plans and the relationship between counseling and women's contraceptive attitudes and practices. Telephone interviews were conducted with a random sample of 898 women ages 18 to 44 enrolled in a commercial health maintenance organization (HMO) or point-of-service (POS) health plan. Counseling received in ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Residency Review Committee requires that family medicine residents learn options counseling for women with unintended pregnancies. This qualitative study identifies important domains for future formal evaluations of pregnancy options counseling by exploring the relevant benefits reported by residents who underwent routine abortion training. To our knowledge, this i...

Each year, more than 500 000 girls and young women younger than 20 years become pregnant. It is important for pediatricians to have the ability and the resources in their offices to make a timely pregnancy diagnosis in their adolescent patients and provide them with nonjudgmental pregnancy options counseling. Counseling includes an unbiased discussion of the adolescent's legal options to either...

OBJECTIVE Unplanned pregnancy in women with SLE can have grave complications both for the child and the woman. We studied the prevalence of contraceptive counseling among women of reproductive age with SLE at a university hospital in Northeast Thailand. METHODS Recruited: 125 women with SLE, between 15 and 50 years, followed up at the Rheumatology Clinic. A questionnaire was administered and ...

introduction: each year nearly 529,000 women worldwide die due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth.premarital education can play an effective role in improving the health of the pregnancy.selection of appropriate educational practices leads to more useful education.this study examined the effect of a focus group about prenatal health on knowledge and attitudes of marriage candidategirl...

BACKGROUND Counseling has a significant role in improving knowledge, attitude and practice outcomes of pregnant women towards medication use. Proper counseling thus could be beneficial to prevent any medication related misadventure during pregnancy. The present study was aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of pregnant women towards their medications, to provide counseling...

Objective: We sought to determine if women who had an atrial switch procedure for d-transposition of the great arteries (d-TGA) are being counseled regarding pregnancy, and if the counseling is modified based on baseline cardiac function in accordance with American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology guidelines. Methods: Medical records of reproductive age women with an atrial swit...