Aim: Early Antenatal Care initiation among first-time mothers is crucial for the health of both the baby and mother. Unfavorable birth outcomes are mostly associated with late initiation of antenatal care that is designed to prevent complications associated with childbirth. This...
Objectives: To solve the sexual health problems among young women aged 20-39 years by using a PLISSIT model in rural Sindh Karachi Pakistan. Material and Methods: This Quasi-experiment will carry in the primary health care center of Sindh Karachi, Pakistan. One primary healthcar...
Ada Nkemagu Okocha, Mkpe Abbey, Alali Dan-Jumbo, Paul O. Dienye, Simeon Chijioke Amadi, Chukwuma U. Okeafor, Paul Kilalolo Biralo & Faithwin Horsfall·Asian Journal of Pregnancy and Childbirth·2023
Background: Major antepartum depression is associated with multisystemic symptoms, functional impairment, obstetric complications and even maternal mortality secondary to suicide if not promptly treated. Aims: To determine the prevalence of antepartum depression among pregnant wo...
Aim: Sickle cell disease is a public health problem with a global spread. As a hereditary disease, sickle cell disease comes with many complications, including anemia. With the increasing incidence of Sickle cell disease in Ghana, the study assessed students' knowledge, attitude,...
Ethno-medically, pineapple is used as abortifacient. Moreover, pineapple juice was found to have utero tonic effect in vitro just like Oxytocin, but in vivo research, bred at 10 days (second trimester in albino rats) showed no abortifacient effect. Therefore, this research was se...
Gilbert Ti-enkawol Nachinab, John Ndebugri Alem, Vida Nyare Yakong, Archibella Neene Awhaitey, Florence Hagan Brown & Patricia Djimate·Asian Journal of Pregnancy and Childbirth·2023
Background: Pregnancy is an important process in the life cycle that gives rise to offspring to ensure continuity of life. However, due to unwanted pregnancies, some women resort to an abortion, which may or may not be safe. Given the health risk associated with unsafe abortion,...
Tochi L. Nweke, Chinomnso C. Nnebue, Ifeoma B. Udigwe, Darlington C. Obi, Chijioke A. Ezenyeaku, Chika F. Ubajaka & Prosper O. U. Adogu·Asian Journal of Pregnancy and Childbirth·2023
Background: The extent to which available antenatal care (ANC) services and its delivery is perceived to be of goodquality among ANC attendees, remains key in achieving effective utilization, compliance and desirable outcomes with interventions. Objective: To assess and compare a...
Aims: Perinatal women might have a negative experience with childbirth owing to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and their parenting attitudes or mental state could be affected. We used an Internet survey to clarify the experiences of women who gave birth during...
The aim of this study is the comparative analysis of breast milk and commercial infant milk sold in Aguata LGA. Breast milk and four infant milk (SME GOLD, Peak milk, MY BOY and Lactogen) were purchased from different sellers within Aguata metropolies. The proximate analysis were...
Aims: One of the most significant causes of infertility in men and women are chromosomal abnormalities. There is a growing trend of postponing family planning so that couples want to have children in the later years of reproductive age, more precisely in the middle or late thirti...
Aims: Hyperthyroidism occurs due to overproduction of thyroid hormone. We aim to investigate the relationship of VASA and IFITM3 with hyperthyroidism by demonstrating immunolocalization at the stage of diestrus in hyperthyroid rat ovaries. Materials and Methods: To induce hyperth...
Background: Teenage pregnancy is a global societal issue with significant public health implications. Both developed and developing nations are affected, although developing nations like Ghana are more likely to have it. The explored the factors associated with teenage pregnancy...
Respiratory distress, intraventricular haemorrhage, necrotizing enterocolitis, hypothermia are few of the neonatal threats associated with preterm delivery. Antenatal steroids are given to pregnancy women who are at risk of delivery before 37weeks to prevent these complications i...
Background: The advancement in science has brought about better medicines and preventive measures hence improved quality of life leading to higher life expectancy. This has also lead to advancement in assisted reproductive technology (ART) such as In vitro fertilization (IVF) whi...
One of the major accomplishments of modern obstetrics over the past fifty years in high-income countries has been the decrease in stillbirths, which went from rates as high as 50 per 1000 births to approximately 5 per 1000 births these days. The infant mortality rate has decrease...