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How women are treated during facility-based childbirth in four countries: a cross-sectional study with labour observations and community-based surveys

open access: yesThe Lancet, 2019
Summary Background Women across the world are mistreated during childbirth. We aimed to develop and implement evidence-informed, validated tools to measure mistreatment during childbirth, and report results from a cross-sectional study in four low-income
Meghan A. Bohren   +20 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Mistreatment of Women during Childbirth in Health Facilities Globally: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review

open access: yesPLoS Medicine, 2015
Background Despite growing recognition of neglectful, abusive, and disrespectful treatment of women during childbirth in health facilities, there is no consensus at a global level on how these occurrences are defined and measured.
Meghan A. Bohren   +14 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Factors of the childbirth fear among nulliparous women in Iran

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2022
Background Fear of childbirth is an anxiety associated with childbirth, which manifests itself in physical and concentration problems. It is often associated with requesting a cesarean section, and it is prevalent in nulliparous women.
Safieh Kananikandeh   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Thermal imaging applications in neonatal care: a scoping review

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2019
Background In neonatal care, assessment of the temperature of the neonate is essential to confirm on-going health, and as an early signal of potential pathology.
Anastasia Topalidou   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Coping styles associated with post-traumatic stress and depression symptoms following childbirth in croatian women [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Childbirth is a normative event in a woman's life and is considered as a positive event. However, one in three women perceive childbirth as a physical threat to themselves or their new-born and 3% of women develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD ...
Ayers, S.   +3 more
core   +5 more sources

Humaniser l’accouchement au Bénin ? Retour sur l’échec d’un projet de la coopération japonaise

open access: yesAnthropologie & Santé, 2022
Since the 1970s, international activist movements have denounced a medical and techno-centric approach to birth. In response to this “techno-bio-medicalization” of birth, the concept of humanized childbirth emerged in the 1990s in Latin America and then ...
Clémence Schantz   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Childbirth Readiness Scale (CRS): instrument development and psychometric properties

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2022
Background Childbirth preparation plays an important role in reducing maternal mortality and improving women’s childbirth experience. Evaluating childbirth readiness levels before and after interventions provides a basis for formulating more targeted and
Mengmei Yuan   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Local cooling for relieving pain from perineal trauma sustained during childbirth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Background: Perineal trauma is common during childbirth and may be painful. Contemporary maternity practice includes offering women numerous forms of pain relief, including the local application of cooling treatments.
Begg, L   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Diegetic Pregnancy in Jesse Greengrass’s Sight (2018), or the Ethics of Building Bodies in(to) Literature

open access: yesSillages Critiques, 2023
Although they have often been used as metaphors for the act of writing, pregnancy and childbirth have a long history of being left out of literature itself, especially as diegetic events in the novel.
Maxence Gouleau
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison of fear, anxiety and self-efficacy of childbirth among primiparous and multiparous women

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2021
Background The aim of this study was to compare fear of childbirth, state and trait anxiety, and childbirth self-efficacy among primiparous and multiparous women in Ahvaz, southwest of Iran.
Aazam Shakarami   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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