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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Postpartum Care"”.
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Hospital Based Postpartum Care Programs
… nurses are developing ways to provide care to childbearing families. One goal has been to provide support and education after discharge from the hospital. Numerous methods have been found to deliver this. There is little research available regarding the success of such programs in …
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Women’s-Perceived Quality In Postpartum Care
<p>Increased competition among healthcare organizations for the obstetric consumer market has led to increased interest in women’s perceptions of their obstetric experience. This study explored women’s perceptions of quality and women’s perceptions of benefits for women who received family-centered …
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Traditional postpartum care : alloparenting from an evolutionary perspective
… This dissertation focuses on traditional postpartum care and its variation across different human populations using an evolutionary framework. Whereas traditional healthcare may have been geared towards ensuring mother and infant recovery by keeping them from contact with outsiders, …
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Developing a patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) for postpartum care in Ireland
… is no gold standard for assessing maternity care quality through PROM. The aim of this thesis was to examine the construction, feasibility, and validity of a comprehensive postnatal PROM, created as a combination of existing validated PROMs. This was achieved by systematically reviewing …
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Retelling an Old Wife’s Tale: Postpartum Care of Taiwanese and Chinese Immigrant Women
<p>The focus of this dissertation is the Chinese postpartum tradition <em>zuoyuezi</em>, often translated into English as doing-the-month. Having its roots in ancient China, this set of practices has maintained its salience today in Taiwan, China, and among first generation immigrant women in the …
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A plurality of care : The politics of postpartum care practices in contemporary South Korea
… examines South Korean middle-class mothers’ postpartum care practices which have been dramatically reframed through the recent emergence of the postpartum care market. Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic field research in the Seoul metropolitan area between 2012 and 2013, the ethnography …
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Maternal Perception of the Neonate
… of fifteen mothers receiving traditional postpartum care in the hospital setting. The study group was composed of fifteen mothers who, prior to delivery, chose to participate in an early discharge program. In the early discharge program the patient and her newborn returned home twelve to …
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Addressing Health Disparities in Refugees
… in new countries by providing support in health care, finance, education, infrastructure, and resettlement.</p> <p>I worked as a Health Access/Intensive Case management Intern. As a Health Access Program Intern, it was my job to ensure that refugees coming to the United States had a place to seek …
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Constructive integration : changes in uptake and outcomes of reproductive health services during the scaling up of ART and PMTCT in Thyolo District, Malawi
… the potential detrimental effects of HIV-care on the overall capacity of fragile health systems. The objective of this study was to evaluate changes in the uptake of reproductive health services as well as the main pregnancy outcomes during the scaling up of ART and PMTCT in Thyolo …
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Factors associated with pregnant women's participation in a mHealth intervention in Timor-Leste
… including questions on antenatal and postpartum care, birthing practices, and postpartum care, as well as information about mobile phone ownership and usage. Bi-variate and multi-variate logistic regression models were used to examine the association of enrollment of eligible women in …
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Information Interventions to Reduce Maternal Mortality in Indonesia
… program placement. More women got antenatal care due to the program but use of a skilled birth attendant and postpartum care did not change as a result of the intervention. Both genders report discussing a blood donor in preparation for delivery.</p>
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Predictors of Postpartum Depression among Women in Karachi, Pakistan
<p>Pakistan has the highest prevalence of postpartum depression (PPD) among Asian countries. The purpose of this quantitative, cross-sectional study was to determine the predictors of PPD among women in Karachi, Pakistan. The Transactional Model of Stress and Coping was used as a framework. A …
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A Biopsychosocial Approach to Persistent Postpartum Pain and Postpartum Sexual Function
… has been a push for a maternal-focused model of postpartum care; however, this model of care tends to focus on postpartum depression. Two issues that are related to postpartum depression but may go unaddressed by health-care professionals are persistent postpartum pain (PPP) and postpartum sexual …
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Gestational Diabetes: the Role of Prenatal Care On Excessive Fetal Growth Outcomes and Postpartum Screening For Diabetes Among South Carolina Women (2004-2007)
… examined aspects of both prenatal and postnatal care for women with GDM. Study one focused on examining the impact of prenatal care on LGA/Macrosomia outcomes by gestational diabetes status among a retrospective cohort of singleton live births to South Carolina women (2004-2007). Results indicate …
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Exploring the experiences of women participating in a lifestyle intervention programme (Iindiago) who had hyperglycaemia first detected in pregnancy
… provided to women with GDM as part of antenatal care. This study aims to explore the experiences of women who received the IINDIAGO intervention and understand what participation meant to them. IINDIAGO is a health system intervention that seeks to integrate the provision of a lifestyle …
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Factors associated with fresh stillbirths in Livingstone district, Zambia.
… events. Good, timely and appropriate midwifery care provided by skilled attendants in an environment that is favourable prevents or at least decreases the incidence of fresh stillbirths. The aim of this study was to determine factors associated with fresh stillbirths in Livingstone district, …
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Factors associated with fresh stillbirths in Livingstone district, Zambia.
… events. Good, timely and appropriate midwifery care provided by skilled attendants in an environment that is favourable prevents or at least decreases the incidence of fresh stillbirths. The aim of this study was to determine factors associated with fresh stillbirths in Livingstone district, …