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Margaret McConnell, Alya Alsager, Plyce Fuchu, Shrivaths Sriprasad et al. • BMC Pediatrics
(2025)
Abstract Background Preterm birth is a leading cause of childhood mortality and developmental disabilities, with persistent socioeconomic disparities in incidence and outcomes. Maternal presence during prolonged neonatal intensive care unit...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12887-025-05621-9
Jamileh Malekuti, Khadijeh Samadi, Mojgan Mirghafurvand, Fatemeh Abbasalizadeh et al. • Majallah-i Zanān, Māmā̓ī va Nāzā̓ī-i Īrān
(2019)
Introduction: The hemorrhoid is referred to dilated parts of the anal canal veins, which help to control fecal excretion and is one of the most common digestive diseases. Since postpartum problems such as hemorrhoid have significant effect ...
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DOI: 10.22038/ijogi.2019.12851
Heather O’Mahen, Louise Howard, Helen Sharp, Antoinette Davey et al. • Health and Social Care Delivery Research
(2025)
Background Perinatal mental health disorders affect one in five mothers during pregnancy or within 2 years post childbirth. These disorders can lead to poor pregnancy and childbirth outcomes and maternal deaths. Additionally, they negativel...
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DOI: 10.3310/RRAP0011
Anna Gergely, Édua Koós-Hutás, Lőrinc András Filep, Anna Kis et al. • Scientific Reports
(2023)
Abstract Parents tend to use a specific communication style, including specific facial expressions, when speaking to their preverbal infants which has important implications for children’s healthy development. In the present study, we inves...
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-26981-7
Adama Ouedraogo, Patrice Ngangue, David Jean Simon, Vénunyé Claude Kondo Tokpovi et al. • BMJ Global Health
(2025)
Objective This study estimated the proportion of children aged 12–23 months who were fully vaccinated in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), explored geographical disparities across subregions and countries, and identified country-level factors assoc...
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DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2024-018333
Seyyedeh Zahra Seyyed Noori, abbasali hossein khanzadeh, Abbas Abolghasemi, Iraj Shakerinia • Ravānshināsī-i Afrād-i Istis̠nāyī
(2025)
The present study aimed to effectiveness of simultaneous training of various executive functions (hot and cool; focused on simultaneous parent-child training) on improving the empathy of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorde...
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DOI: 10.22054/jpe.2022.64115.2382
Fatemeh Nikkhoo, Somaiyeh Fathipoor • مطالعات روانشناسی تربیتی
(2023)
The mental pressure caused by having a deaf child has tremendous effects on mothers. This pressure leads to psychological distress and parenting stress for mothers. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of th...
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DOI: 10.22111/jeps.2023.46177.5454
Clara-Louise Mourier • Sillages Critiques
(2026)
Jean Hegland’s Into the Forest (1996) concludes with two sisters and their infant Burl abandoning their family home to embrace life in a neighbouring forest. Western domesticity, symbolised by private bedrooms, is replaced by the plural, bi...
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DOI: 10.4000/15rp7
Beatrice Wamuyu Muchiri, Monika M. L. dos Santos • Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
(2018)
Abstract Background An increasingly recognised prevention approach for substance use entails a reduction in risk factors, and the enhancement of promotive, or protective factors in individuals and the environment surrounding them during the...
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DOI: 10.1186/s13011-018-0163-4
Manal Adil Murad, Souzan Hussain Eassa • Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology
(2023)
Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite that is widely distributed in the human population and is responsible for corresponding global morbidity. Specifically, T. gondii causes toxoplasmosis, leading to miscarriage, stillbirth, and neural...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22207/JPAM.17.2.05
Grazyna Kmita, Grazyna Kmita, Eliza Kiepura, Alicja Niedźwiecka • Frontiers in Psychology
(2022)
Postpartum depression is more prevalent in mothers and fathers of preterm infants compared to parents of full-term infants and may have long-term detrimental consequences for parental mental health and child development. The temperamental p...
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.812893
Marjanne Senekal, Gabrielle L. Lasker, Lindsay van Velden, Ria Laubscher et al. • BMC Public Health
(2016)
Abstract Background Female university students are at risk for weight gain and use of inappropriate weight-loss strategies. By gaining a greater understanding of the weight-loss strategies used by and weight management related characteristi...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-3576-x
Phyllis Waruguru, Dasel Mulwa, Michael Okoth, Wesley Bor • Journal of Food Innovation, Nutrition, and Environmental Sciences
(2025)
Background: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) effectively suppresses HIV viral load. However, people living with HIV (PLWH) fail to achieve optimal viral suppression and especially in resource limited settings. Nutritional supplements such as Mo...
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DOI: 10.70851/ynxgrq90
Hadeer Rasheed, Zaid W. Ajil • Kufa Journal for Nursing Sciences
(2023)
Objective(s): To (1) find out the association between palliative care for children with malignancies and mothers’ level of education, and (2) investigate the differences in the quality of palliative care among mothers’ level of education gr...
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DOI: 10.36321/kjns.vi20232.12493
Lantin Sulistyorini • Journal of Agromedicine and Medical Sciences (AMS)
(2018)
The period of pregnancy greatly determines the quality of human resources of the future, because the condition of the fetus in the womb determines the growth of children. Factors that affect maternal health is the mother's nutritional condi...
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DOI: 10.19184/ams.v4i2.7874
Karin Jonsson, My Green, Malin Barman, Agneta Sjöberg et al. • Food & Nutrition Research
(2016)
Background: A farming environment confers strong protection against allergy development. We have previously shown that farming mothers consume more full-fat dairy than control mothers, who instead consume more low-fat dairy, margarine, and ...
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DOI: 10.3402/fnr.v60.32721
Katie O’Leary, Jordan Eschler, Logan Kendall, Lisa M. Vizer et al. • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
(2015)
We introduce a mixed-methods approach for determining how people weigh tradeoffs in values related to health and technologies for health self-management. Our approach combines interviews with Q-methodology, a method from psychology uniquely...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702576
PMC: 5554065
Suzannah Stuijfzand, Susan Garthus-Niegel, Susan Garthus-Niegel, Susan Garthus-Niegel et al. • Frontiers in Psychiatry
(2020)
The parent-infant bond following childbirth is an important facilitator of optimal infant development. So far, research has mainly focused on mother-infant bonding. Data on fathers are still sparse. Parental mental health, such as posttraum...
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.570727
Mengbi SHEN, Zixia WANG, Jiaqi ZHENG, Yan ZHANG et al. • 环境与职业医学
(2022)
BackgroundExercise during pregnancy is closely related to maternal and infant health. Previous studies in developed countries have linked maternal exercise during pregnancy with newborn body weight as well as subcutaneous fat thickness. How...
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DOI: 10.11836/JEOM22103
Seyedeh Saeedeh Mousavi, Shima Haghani, Fatemeh Harati Kabir, Maryam Keshavarz • Majallah-i Zanān, Māmā̓ī va Nāzā̓ī-i Īrān
(2025)
Introduction: Skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby is very important in the first minutes after birth. Despite the great emphasis on its implementation, due to the lack of manpower and the numerous responsibilities of midwives, it i...
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DOI: 10.22038/ijogi.2025.83361.6263