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Knowledge and Attitude towards Pregnancy Care and Delivery among Male Commercial Motorcyclists in Ibadan, Nigeria

open access: yesIbom Medical Journal, 2022
Background: Men’s influences are gradually being recognised in pregnancy and delivery care. The study aims to determine the knowledge and attitude of male commercial motorcyclists on pregnancy care and delivery of women.
Ibirongbe DO   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Influence of Motivation on the Efficacy of Natural Family Planning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Purpose: Mutual motivation is recognized as essential for effective behavioral methods of family planning. Few studies have studied this factor in family planning efficacy.
Barron, Mary Lee   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

He or She, What Will It Be: Old Wivesʹ Tales and Foetal Sex Prediction

open access: yesSoutheastern European Medical Journal, 2020
Aim: A myriad of myths surround pregnancy, especially regarding the prediction of the sex of the infant. Some of these myths and old wives' tales are, to this day, widespread among expectant parents.
Darjan Kardum   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tanzanian men’s engagement in household chores is associated with improved antenatal care seeking and maternal health

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2021
Background Male support for partners’ antenatal care (ANC) has the potential to improve women’s care-seeking and maternal health outcomes. This study describes factors that are associated with men’s involvement in household tasks and explores the ...
Emily Chahalis   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Methylation Status of Imprinted Genes and Repetitive Elements in Sperm DNA from Infertile Males [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Stochastic, environmentally and/or genetically induced disturbances in the genome-wide epigenetic reprogramming processes during male germ-cell development may contribute to male infertility.
El Hajj, N.   +7 more
core   +1 more source

A community perspective on the role of fathers during pregnancy: a qualitative study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
BACKGROUND: Defining male involvement during pregnancy is essential for the development of future research and appropriate interventions to optimize services aiming to improve birth outcomes.
Amina P Alio   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Maternal exposure to UV filters: associations with maternal thyroid hormones, IGF-I/IGFBP3 and birth outcomes

open access: yesEndocrine Connections, 2018
Background: Several chemical UV filters/absorbers ('UV filters' hereafter) have endocrine-disrupting properties in vitro and in vivo. Exposure to these chemicals, especially during prenatal development, is of concern.
M Krause   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prolactin receptors and placental lactogen drive male mouse pancreatic islets to pregnancy-related mRNA changes. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
Pregnancy requires a higher functional beta cell mass and this is associated with profound changes in the gene expression profile of pancreatic islets.
Lotte Goyvaerts   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Male Pesticide Exposure and Pregnancy Outcome [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Epidemiology, 1997
Potential health effects of agricultural pesticide use include reproductive outcomes. For the Ontario Farm Family Health Study, the authors sampled Ontario farms from the 1986 Canadian Census of Agriculture, identified farm couples, and obtained questionnaire data concerning farm activities, reproductive health experience, and chemical applications ...
D A, Savitz   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Reduced sexual size dimorphism in a pipefish population where males do not prefer larger females

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2019
Within a species' distribution, populations are often exposed to diverse environments and may thus experience different sources of both natural and sexual selection.
Mário Cunha   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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