Tag: Maternal Health

A survey of 336 women in rural Ibadan found that perceived benefits, not knowledge or demographics, overwhelmingly drive willingness to ...

A Malaysian cross-sectional study of 217 women found that 77 percent had good contraceptive knowledge, yet 26.3 percent still had ...

A mixed-method study of 570 postpartum women in Dire Dawa, eastern Ethiopia, found that only 28.4 percent used the internet ...

A dose-response meta-analysis of 34 studies finds that higher physical activity during pregnancy is linked to a 30 percent lower ...

Researchers in China have developed and internally validated a four-variable nomogram that predicts postpartum fatigue with good accuracy during routine ...

A qualitative study in Nepal's Kavre district finds that the early rollout of the WHO's eight-visit antenatal care model has ...

A three-country cohort study finds pregnant adolescents in Ethiopia, Kenya, and South Africa receive fewer antenatal visits, more mistreatment during ...

A new study linking household and facility surveys finds that Bangladesh's surge in facility-based childbirth, from 37 percent in 2014 ...

A hospital-based case-control study of 96 hypospadias cases and 480 controls in Hainan, China, links the congenital anomaly to maternal ...

A qualitative study in Uganda shows how intersecting HIV stigma and COVID-19 fear create layered barriers that keep pregnant and ...

A new PLOS Medicine Policy Forum argues that modern obstetrics should invert the traditional model of antenatal care, concentrating risk ...

A retrospective cohort study of over 30,000 live births in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region found that 4.6 percent of children ...

An interpretable AI platform that reads the retinal vasculature predicted preeclampsia and other hypertensive disorders of pregnancy months before clinical ...

A controlled quasi-experimental study in rural Ethiopia found that an electronic community health information system, paired with tailored implementation strategies, ...

A landmark Nordic register study of 339 pregnancies has identified four distinct medication use trajectories in women with myasthenia gravis, ...

A large Korean study combining a nationwide survey with National Health Insurance Service records shows that mothers caring for children ...

A qualitative study of 136 Ugandans reveals how COVID-19 misinformation and limited digital literacy disrupted maternal and HIV care, and ...

A JAMA cross-sectional study quantifies how frequently commercially insured women in the United States begin GLP-1 receptor agonist prescriptions after ...

A mixed-methods study of 221 Ghanaian mothers finds that one in three experienced dysfunctional obsessive thinking about COVID-19 during pregnancy, ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Pediatric Research, scientists have unveiled intricate links between prenatal and birth factors and the ...