Secondary fear of childbirth prolongs the time to subsequent delivery
AbstractObjective. Most pregnant women are anxious about the delivery and up to 30% develop varying degrees of fear of childbirth (FOC). Secondary FOC occurs in parous women who have experienced a traumatic delivery. The aim of this study was to investigate the time to subsequent delivery and delivery outcome in women with secondary FOC, compared with ...
Sydsjö, Gunilla +5 more
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A Case Report of Vaginal Delivery at Home Due to Fear of Covid-19
Introduction: Childbirth can be a normal and nonintervention process, but sometimes the process gets out of normal and requires immediate medical intervention. Thus, home delivery cannot be considered safe without coordination with the treatment staff.
Mahnaz Nosratabadi +2 more
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Access to HIV prevention and care for HIV-exposed and HIV-infected children : a qualitative study in rural and urban Mozambique [PDF]
Background: Follow-up of HIV-exposed children for the delivery of prevention of mother-to-child transmission services and for early diagnosis and treatment of HIV infection is critical to their survival.
Bobrow, Emily A +7 more
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Why do women deliver where they had not planned to go? A qualitative study from peri-urban Nairobi Kenya. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: In urban Kenya, couples face a wide variety of choices for delivery options; however, many women end up delivering in different facilities from those they had intended while pregnant.
Ahearn, C. +4 more
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Women’s preferences and mode of delivery in public and private hospitals: a prospective cohort study [PDF]
Background Rates of caesarean section have steadily increased in most middle- and high-income countries over the last few decades without medical justification.
Althabe, Fernando +11 more
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What are Polish women afraid of in vaginal birth? – A Cross-Sectional Study
Introduction. Fear of childbirth is a specific feeling related to approaching birth that ranges from negligible to very intense. Women’s choices and doubts regarding the way of birth may be related to a lack of knowledge about the benefits and advantages
Izabela Walasik +5 more
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Why do pregnant women with fear of birth prefer vaginal birth? A qualitative study in China
BackgroundFear of birth (FOB) is becoming increasingly recognized as a mental health issue that may endanger maternal and infant health and affects women’s subsequent fertility desires. It has also been shown to be related to the choice of delivery mode.
Tieying Zeng +5 more
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SWIFT: Super-fast and Robust Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning [PDF]
Performing machine learning (ML) computation on private data while maintaining data privacy, aka Privacy-preserving Machine Learning~(PPML), is an emergent field of research.
Koti, Nishat +3 more
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Multifactorial study of the relationship between fear of childbirth and mode of delivery
Objective. This study investigated the relationship between fear of childbirth (FOC) and mode of delivery and proposed a cut-off value of FOC for an unselected Turkish pregnant population. Materials and Methods. This cross-sectional study was conducted between March 2019 and February 2020 at Kirsehir Ahi Evran University Obstetrics and Gynecology ...
Naime Konar, Selda Dagli
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Experimental paradigms measuring key psychological constructs can enhance our understanding of mechanisms underlying human psychological well-being and mental health. Delivering such paradigms remotely affords opportunities to reach larger, more representative samples than is typically possible with in-person research. The efficiency gained from remote
T. McGregor +7 more
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