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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"maternal care"”.
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Interactions of Early-life Temperature Exposure, Offspring Genotype and Maternal Care on Later-life Maternal Care Provisioning in Female Rats
The early-life maternal environment has a profound effect on offspring behaviour, including the transmission of maternal care across generations. Variations in rat maternal care provisioning are associated with alterations in the oxytocinergic and dopaminergic systems in the maternal brain and, in …
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South African policy analysis on respectful maternal care
Every woman has the right to receive respectful maternal care (RMC), which includes high quality of care that is dignified, respectful and free of violence and discrimination. Addressing disrespectful maternal care requires interventions at multiple levels including policy. The purpose of this …
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Risk-Appropriate Maternal Care: Identifying Risk Factors that Effect Maternal Outcome
Although maternal deaths are the most tragic of obstetric events it continues to be a rare event. Maternal morbidity, on the other hand, is increasing and poses a greater impact on the economic, psychological, and physical health of the woman and her family, yet it has not been the focus of …
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Fragmented maternal care programs altered pain vulnerability and aberrant responses to opioids
… exhibit altered pain sensitivity. Fragmented maternal care (FC) is potentially the most common form of early life adversity, but less is known about its effects on pain. Individuals are more likely to experience FC in regions of greater deprivation where poverty, divorce rates and drug abuse …
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Understanding Women’s Attitudes Toward Midwifery Practices for Maternal Care in Middle Georgia
… related to pregnancy and childbirth. In Georgia, maternal mortality is particularly acute. Midwifery models of maternal care have been shown to produce positive pregnancy and childbirth outcomes for patients, but these services are underutilized in Georgia. This study sought to identify women’s …
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Defining the relationship between maternal care behavior and hearing development in Wistar rats
… the profound effects that variations in maternal care play during the postnatal development of the brain. However, much less is known about how maternal care affects hearing development. Recently, manipulations of maternal care have been investigated to accelerate hearing onset. We …
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Maternal care in a highly precocial mammal, the guinea pig (Cavia aperea f. porcellus)
… intensity. Young should be selected to influence maternal effort to maximize their own fitness, leading to parent-offspring conflict. Experimental studies on parent-offspring interactions in mammals have mainly been carried out in altricial species and models on the effects of offspring demand on …
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An outcome evaluation of the maternal care manual of the Perinatal Education Programme (PEP)
This study presents an outcome evaluation of the maternal care manual of the Perinatal Education Programme (PEP) studies by 32 midwives at Mowbray Maternity Hospital, a training facility in Cape Town, South Africa. Pre-and-post course knowledge assessments and a survey of participants were used to …
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Variation in postpartum maternal care programs the development of neuroendocrine and mesolimbic dopamine pathways in female offspring
Variation in adult rat maternal behavior is predicted by the experience of maternal licking and grooming (LG) in infancy, such that females that experience high levels of LG (High LG) during postnatal development typically themselves become High LG dams, and females that experience low levels of LG …
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Maternal and child health outcomes in relation to accessibility, spatial distribution, inequality and free maternal care in Kenya
Maternal and child health outcomes are an important indicator of a country’s well-being. Kenya has less maternal and child mortality levels compared to Sub-Saharan Africa averages, but it still performs worse compared to the rest of the world. Some of the reasons behind this are the prohibitive …
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Perceptions of Money: Relationships between Remembered Parental Rejection, Extrinsic Life Aspirations and Maladaptive Attitudes toward Money
… </strong>This study examined the extent to which maternal rejection, paternal rejection, maternal care, and maternal overprotection predict extrinsic life aspirations as well as maladaptive money attitudes in young adults. Additionally, this study sought to determine if the Adult Parental …
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The Relationship Between Self-Reports of Delinquent Behaviors and Adolescents' Perceptions of Parental Care and Protectiveness
… showed correlations between perceived Parental Care and self-reported levels of delinquent behaviors in both males and females. This study has shown that more males than females report participation in delinquent behaviors. As hypothesized, low levels of perceived Parental Care correlated to …
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Perinatal high-fat diet and Bisphenol A: effects on behavior, gene expression and neuroanatomy in the medial prefrontal cortex
… period. After birth, the dams were observed for maternal care interactions with the litter. At postnatal day 10, tissue was collected from pups for gene expression and cytokine analysis. Littermates were observed for changes in periadolescent play behavior from postnatal day 26- 40, elevated plus …
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Perceptions of Parental Care and Overprotection in Childhood: Influences on the Neurobiological Adaptation to Motherhood
<p>Recalled memories of caregiving in childhood are especially salient during the postpartum period and inform mothers’ conceptualization of her new parenting role. Positive perceptions of care received from one’s parents are related to improved maternal-infant bonding and positive parenting …
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Effetto della separazione materna sulla plasticità dei neuroni nell’ippocampo delle mamme e della prole
… resilience to stress. Post-natal stress, such as maternal separation, have a deep impact not only for the offspring, but also for mothers, and lead to neuroendocrine, behavioral and structural changes in the brain. Neuroplasticity was evaluated both in mothers and offspring. Mothers were killed 21 …
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Maternal Effort, Food Quality, and Cortisol Variation During Lactation in Propithecus coquereli in Northwestern Madagascar
The duration and quality of the infant care mothers provide is paramount to investigating life history theory. Maternal care is the principal determinant of infant survival and future reproductive success. Lactation is the most energetically expensive activity for mammals, in turn causing lactating …
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An integrative analysis of the multi- and transgenerational effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals on behavior and neurobiology
… EDC exposure, in combination with EDC-altered F2 maternal care, altered the anxiety phenotype of the F3 offspring. F2 individuals’ maternal care toward their F3 offspring, and the F3 neonatal USVs were altered depending on the EDC and the lineage of descended. Adult anxiety behaviors were mostly …
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Exploring Structural Factors that Influence Black Maternal Morbidity: A Case Study of Illinois Hospitals
… States is the only industrialized country whose maternal mortality rates are increasing at an alarming pace (Ollove, 2018). These deaths are often precipitated by co-morbidities, pregnancy complications, or missed opportunities as it relates to accessing care, quality, and level of care, a missed …
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Primiparae's Identification of Critical Incidents During First Postpartum Month and their Evaluations of Subsequent Nursing Intervention
… study was to investigate (1) what physical care critical incidents primiparae experience while providing mother-infant care during the first postpartum month and (2) what evaluations mothers give to nursing intervention applied to such critical incidents.</p> <p>Six mothers who met the …
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