Adverse Pregnancy and Neonatal Outcomes Among Marshallese Women Living in the United StatesMaternal and Child Health Journal - Tập 23 - Trang 1525-1535 - 2019
Wendy N. Nembhard, Britni L. Ayers, R. Thomas Collins, Xiaoyi Shan, Nader Z. Rabie, Di Chang, James M. Robbins, Pearl A. McElfish
Objective Despite heterogeneity among Pacific Islanders, most studies aggregate them regardless of origin. Thus, limited information is available about perinatal outcomes among various subgroups of Pacific Islanders in the United States, including immigrants from the Republic of the Marshall Islands. We sought to evaluate perinatal outcomes among Marshallese women. Methods We conducted a cross-sec...... hiện toàn bộ
Low Prenatal Weight Gain Among Adult WIC Participants Delivering Term Singleton Infants: Variation by Maternal and Program Participation CharacteristicsMaternal and Child Health Journal - Tập 3 - Trang 129-140 - 1999
Carol A. Hickey, Martha Kreauter, Janet Bronstein, Victoria Johnson, Sandre F. McNeal, Dorothy S. Harshbarger, L. Albert Woolbright
Objective: To determine the association of maternal and prenatal WIC program participation characteristics with low prenatal weight gain among adult women delivering liveborn, singleton infants at term. Methods: WIC program data for 19,017 Black and White Alabama women delivering in 1994 were linked with birth certificate files to examine the association of anthropometric, demographic, reproducti...... hiện toàn bộ
Unhealthy Weight Control Behaviors and Related Risk Factors in Massachusetts Middle and High School StudentsMaternal and Child Health Journal - Tập 18 - Trang 1803-1813 - 2013
Diane Gonsalves, Helen Hawk, Carol Goodenow
Unhealthy weight control behaviors may be precursors to clinical eating disorders; therefore, it is important to identify these actions, and what may trigger them, as early as possible. We used 2009 and 2011 Massachusetts Youth Health Survey data for middle and high school students. We studied age, sex, and race disparities related to unhealthy weight control behaviors in conjunction with other r...... hiện toàn bộ
Predictors of Compliance with the Postpartum Visit among Women Living in Healthy Start Project AreasMaternal and Child Health Journal - Tập 10 - Trang 511-516 - 2006
Allison S. Bryant, Jennifer S. Haas, Thomas F. McElrath, Marie C. McCormick
Objectives: Few studies have examined factors associated with compliance with a postpartum visit (PPV). The identification of such factors is of particular importance in populations with high rates of unintended pregnancies and medical complications of pregnancy. This study seeks to determine factors associated with compliance with a PPV among low-income women in the popul...... hiện toàn bộ
Assessing the Continuum of Care Pathway for Maternal Health in South Asia and Sub-Saharan AfricaMaternal and Child Health Journal - - 2015
Kavita Singh, William T. Story, Allisyn C. Moran
We assess how countries in regions of the world where maternal mortality is highest—South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa—are performing with regards to providing women with vital elements of the continuum of care. Using recent Demographic and Health Survey data from nine countries including 18,036 women, descriptive and multilevel regression analyses were conducted on four key elements of the continu...... hiện toàn bộ
Response to an Online Version of a PRAMS-like Survey in South DakotaMaternal and Child Health Journal - Tập 21 - Trang 335-342 - 2016
Teresa Binkley, Tianna Beare, Maggie Minett, Kriston Koepp, Howard Wey, Bonny Specker
Objectives Increasing response rates for research surveys is challenging, especially in minority populations. A unique minority group in South Dakota is the American Indian (AI) representing about 9 % of the state’s population and 15 % of the births. The purpose of this study was to determine race differences among White, AI, and Other Races (OR) in contact, participation,...... hiện toàn bộ
Comparing Different Partograph Designs for Use in Standard Labor Care: A Pilot Randomized TrialMaternal and Child Health Journal - Tập 22 - Trang 355-363 - 2017
Nigel J. Lee, Jeremy Neal, Nancy K. Lowe, Sue V. Kildea
Backgound Partographs are used in many labour settings to provide a pictorial overview of a woman’s cervical dilation pattern in the first stage of labor and to alert clinicians to slow progress possibly requiring intervention. Recent reviews called for large trials to establish the efficacy of partographs to improve birth outcomes whilst highlighting issues of clinician complianc...... hiện toàn bộ