Showing papers in "Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health in 2004"

TL;DR: A literature search of scientific articles cataloged in CINAHL, PUBMED, the Cochrane Library, and AMED databases relating to the effectiveness of 13 non-pharmacologic methods used to relieve pain and reduce suffering in labor found that suffering is unlikely if indicators of satisfaction were positive after childbirth.

TL;DR: Researchers and health care professionals are encouraged to examine and understand women's beliefs about exercising during their pregnancy and postpartum and design their interventions accordingly, in an attempt to increase women's exercise behavior during their childbearing years.

TL;DR: Evaluation data suggest that the CenteringPregnancy model of group prenatal care has encouraged excellent health care compliance, satisfaction with prenatal care, and low rates of preterm birth and low birth weight infants.

TL;DR: Ten essential elements have been defined, which contribute to the success of this model of prenatal care delivery, and implications for clinical practice and further research to link it with perinatal health outcomes are suggested.

TL;DR: Midwives can provide valuable assistance to women in their explorations of the variety of treatment options available for the relief of dysmenorrhea, including lifestyle changes, complementary and alternative approaches, analgesics, and hormones.

TL;DR: New strategies to prevent and manage postpartum hemorrhage in developing countries, such as community-based use of misoprostol, oxytocin in the Uniject delivery system, the non-inflatable antishock garment to stabilize and resuscitate hypovolemic shock, and the balloon condom catheter to treat intractable uterine bleeding are reviewed.

TL;DR: Recommendations for midwives and women's health care providers engaging in care for women and children in complex humanitarian emergencies are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, a purposive sample of 14 midwives and four recipients of midwifery care was recruited as a subsample from a prior Delphi study on midwife practice and three broad themes were identified: the midwife in relationship with the woman, orchestration of an environment of care, and the outcomes of care.

TL;DR: Focus groups with 14 Somali women who had each given birth to one child in Minnesota found that women thought that their childbirth experience was positive, but wanted more information about events in the delivery room, pain medications, prenatal visits, interpreters, and roles of hospital staff.

TL;DR: A legitimacy of alternative worldviews is argued and the contribution TBAs make to childbearing women across the world is acknowledged.

TL;DR: ICM and FIGO and ICM promote evidence-based, effective interventions that, when used properly with informed consent, can reduce the incidence of maternal mortality and morbidity in the world.

TL;DR: Support by untrained lay women starting in early labor and continuing into the postpartum period demonstrates the most consistent beneficial effect on childbirth outcomes, however, more randomized controlled trials are warranted before firm conclusions may be drawn.

TL;DR: A systematic review of the literature suggests an association between assisted vaginal delivery and some degree of sexual dysfunction, and continued research is necessary to identify modifiable risk factors for sexual problems related to method of delivery.

TL;DR: The results suggest that training may increase ANC attendance rates by about 38%.

TL;DR: Continuous support by a lay woman during labor and delivery facilitates birth, enhances the mother's memory of the experience, strengthens mother-infant bonding, increases breastfeeding success, and significantly reduces many forms of medical intervention.

TL;DR: The issues associated with elective cesarean birth and the factors that have led to recent consideration of this option are examined.

TL;DR: The neuromatrix theory of pain provides a framework that may explain why selected nonpharmacologic methods of pain relief can be quite effective for the relief of pain for the laboring woman.

TL;DR: CenteringPregnancy, an innovative model of prenatal care that integrates extensive health education and group support with the standard prenatal exam, incorporates many of these elements and impediments to wider implementation are explored.

TL;DR: This edition discusses the pathophysiology of various conditions in the context of normal changes in the reproductive cycle and includes numerous new anatomical and clinical illustrations.

TL;DR: How women perceive ultrasound when they receive unexpected abnormal ultrasound findings is examined to discuss women's reactions to receiving unexpected findings, and their perspectives on disclosure of results and on seeing the impaired fetus.

TL;DR: This article discusses issues, suggesting also that there are ethical dilemmas inherent in the provision of some aspects of patient education and that many providers might not have specific training in the Provision of patient Education or in the development of appropriate health educational materials for the population they serve.

TL;DR: Newborns receiving bulb suctioning showed a statistically significant, lower heart rate during the first 20 minutes and a significantly higher SpO2 level by 15 minutes of age, but these findings were not considered clinically significant because values remained within normal parameters.

TL;DR: The natural history of cervical cancer and important aspects to consider related to cervical cancer screening in low resource settings are reviewed and the VIA technique is described in detail.

TL;DR: Alternative or complementary therapies that may serve as adjuncts in the treatment of postpartum depression are discussed to help practitioners better understand the treatments that are available that their clients may be using.

TL;DR: Efforts to reduce the incidence of postpartum hemorrhage as a major cause of maternal death must progress on two fronts to ensure the provision of skilled care and on the demand side to ensure that women and their families accept the view that bleeding after birth is dangerous and that skilled care is preferable to traditional care.

TL;DR: Strategies available to optimize understanding of risk include communication of risk figures as frequencies rather than as probabilities or percentages and explicit discussion of a woman's preconceptions about her risk and about the condition being tested for.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide factual information about abortion and adoption, values clarification exercises, and concrete approaches to help women examine their beliefs and examine their own values and biases in the decision-making process.