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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Nulliparous"”.
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Evaluating Provider Knowledge Towards Pain Management During Intrauterine Device Insertion in Nulliparous Women
Background: In 2011, 45% of the 6.1 million pregnancies in the United States were unintended. Of the unintended pregnancies, 50% were attributed to contraceptive failure or method non-adherence. Long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) are birth control methods consisting of intrauterine …
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Hydrotherapy: The Effects on Length of Labor and Analgesia Use in Labor for the Nulliparous Woman
… first stage of labor and analgesia use for the nulliparous woman in labor. A quasi-experimental design was used for this quantitative study. The researcher and labor and delivery nurses collected data throughout or after the labor experience of the convenience sample who met the following …
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Differences in Balance and Limb Loading Symmetry in Postpartum and Nulliparous Women During Childcare Related Activities
… aimed to explore how different groups – PP and nulliparous (NP) women – and different ways of holding a car seat while standing – no holding, symmetrical holding with two hands in front, and asymmetrical holding with one arm by the side – affect balance and limb loading symmetry. Results showed …
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Couple dynamics and maternal smoking cessation during pregnancy: A qualitative examination of nulliparous women and their partners
Background: Maternal smoking during pregnancy is associated with an array of adverse health outcomes, for women and their children (Gluckman, Hanson, Cooper, and Thornburg, 2008; Green et al, 2005; Hammoud et al, 2005; Kramer, 1987; Salihu and Wilson, 2007; US Department of Health and Human …
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The long-term effects of reproductive experience on the neurobiology of anxiety and its treatment: a cross species approach in female rats and women
… and fear extinction (learned fear inhibition) in nulliparous (virgin) rats, but not primiparous (reproductively experienced) rats. Primiparous rats also had altered anxiety-related gene expression (GABAA receptor subunits and corticotrophin-releasing hormone) in the basolateral amygdala and …
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A Grounded Theory Study of Birthing People’s Decision-Making on Labor Pain Management
… about labor pain management among nulliparous birthing people? and 2) How does the pain management decision develop or change from antepartum to delivery among nulliparous birthing people? Data to address the research questions was collected through semi-structured interviews. …
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Relations Among Adolescent Motherhood, Caregiving Experience, and Perceptual and Caregiving Responses to Infant Cries
… Twenty-five primiparous adolescents and 39 nulliparous adolescents listened to segments of three different infant cry types that varied in the amount of high-pitched, hyperphonation contained in the acoustic structure. Participants rated their responses to the low- and high-risk cries on …
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A Physiological Age-Grading System for Female Hydrellia pakistanae Deonier (Diptera: Ephydridae)
… with eight physiological age classes, three nulliparous and five parous. Changes that occur in the fat body were used to assist in classification of nulliparous females or those with low egg counts.
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Can an educational web intervention, co-created by service users, affect nulliparous women's experiences of early labour? (A randomised control trial). The Let’s Talk Early Labour (L-TEL) Trial.
… 2018 and June 2020. A total of 140 low-risk, nulliparous, pregnant women were randomised to the intervention group (n=69) or the control group (n=71). The intervention group received the web-based intervention antenatally to use at their own convenience and the control group received usual …
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The prevalence of pain catastrophising in pregnancy and its influence on latent phase hospital admission The RETHINK Study
… of labour. Women expecting their first child (nulliparous) are more likely to be admitted during the latent phase than women who have had one (primiparous) or more babies (multiparous). Pain and fear are cited as significant factors in early hospital admissions. Some women may have exaggerated, …
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An Integrated Machine Learning Approach to Optimize the Estimation of Preterm Birth
… curves (AUC) of 0.7721, 0.7970 for Parous and Nulliparous cases respectively. Best PRAMS results used selection method 1, had sensitivities of 68.15%, 40.35%, specificities of 64.71%, 94.57%, and area under curves (AUC) of 0.8452, 0.7064 for Parous and Nulliparous cases respectively.
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Detection of the bloodmeal origin of mosquitoes collected at alligator farms, and West Nile Virus activity in mosquitoes collected from alligator farms, sentinel chicken surveillance sites, and larval habitats
… was detected in 2 pools of Cx. quinquefasciatus nulliparous females, 1 pool of Ae. albopictus nulliparous females and 2 pools of Culex species males. This is the second report of WNV vertical transmission in nature for Cx. quinquefasciatus and the first study that detected WNV from field …
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Seasonal abundance and host preference of Culicoides in Virginia: with emphasis on the ecology of Culicoides variipennis (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
… remainder of the night. Earlier in the evening, nulliparous females were collected in higher percentages than parous females. Time of flight for C. stellifer was delayed when the temperature was above 25°C. Culicoides biguttatus and C. variipennis peaked at SS+30 in the bait traps but continued …
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The impact of first pregnancy and delivery on pelvic floor dysfunction
… describe pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD) in young nulliparous women, and its correlation with postnatal pathology. Methods: A prospective study was performed at Cork University Maternity Hospital, Ireland. Initially 1484 nulliparous women completed the validated Australian Pelvic Floor …
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Pup provisioning and artificial pack formation in African wild dog Lycaon pictus in South Africa
… pictus are obligate cooperative breeders with nulliparous helpers contributing to the rearing of a dominant pair's young through pup-provisioning and defence agianst predators. Despite the importance of allo-parental care to the survival of pups and the persistance of packs, few studies have …
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Abdominal palpation to determine fetal position at the onset of labour: an accuracy study
… (LOA) fetal position at the onset of labour, in nulliparous women over 37 weeks’ gestation, with ultrasound as the reference standard. Trained observers blind to the index test results performed the ultrasound independently. Midwives palpation data on the position of 629 women were obtained and …
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Effect of Heavy Lifting with a Head Strap on the Pelvic Floor across the Menstrual Cycle
… occurs in 10% of women in Nepal, even 6% of nulliparous women have symptomatic POP.1 This may be linked to the heavy lifting tasks performed by women using a head strap.2 This study explored the impact of hormonal changes on the pelvic floor when performing these tasks during each phase of …
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Determinants of body composition changes over 5.5 years and the associated cardio-metabolic risk factors in free-living black South African women
… a lower baseline body mass index (BMI), being nulliparous at baseline, and not having children over the follow-up period. Sanitation at baseline and change in sanitation over time had opposing effects on body weight, with smaller increases in weight in those women who had access to sanitation …
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Weight Gain Counselling in Prenatal Care: Assessing and Improving Patient-Healthcare Provider Interactions
… Women of higher socioeconomic status, older age, nulliparous, history of dieting, low physical activity and those categorized with overweight/obesity were more likely to receive GWG advice. The 5As of Healthy Pregnancy Weight Gain Tool is effective at initiating Ask and Advise components of …
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