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  1. According to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, 80 % of the population living in rural areas in developing countries depends on traditional medicine for their health needs, including use during pregnan...

    Authors: Richard Nyeko, Nazarius Mbona Tumwesigye and Abdullah Ali Halage
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:296
  2. Each year, about 5.3 million babies die in the perinatal period. Understanding of causes of death is critical for prevention, yet there is no globally acceptable classification system. Instead, many disparate ...

    Authors: Susannah Hopkins Leisher, Zheyi Teoh, Hanna Reinebrant, Emma Allanson, Hannah Blencowe, Jan Jaap Erwich, J. Frederik Frøen, Jason Gardosi, Sanne Gordijn, A. Metin Gülmezoglu, Alexander E. P. Heazell, Fleurisca Korteweg, Joy Lawn, Elizabeth M. McClure, Robert Pattinson, Gordon C. S. Smith…
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:295
  3. While spirituality is well described in end-of-life care literature, research on its place in the delivery room remains largely limited to mother-oriented qualitative studies focusing on life-threatening situa...

    Authors: Marie-Noëlle Bélanger-Lévesque, Marc Dumas, Simon Blouin and Jean-Charles Pasquier
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:294
  4. Electronic health registries – eRegistries - can systematically collect relevant information at the point of care for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH). However, a suite of process and outc...

    Authors: Vicki Flenady, Aleena M. Wojcieszek, Ingvild Fjeldheim, Ingrid K. Friberg, Victoria Nankabirwa, Jagrati V. Jani, Sonja Myhre, Philippa Middleton, Caroline Crowther, David Ellwood, David Tudehope, Robert Pattinson, Jacqueline Ho, Jiji Matthews, Aurora Bermudez Ortega, Mahima Venkateswaran…
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:293
  5. Facility-based births have been promoted as the main strategy to reduce maternal and neonatal death risks at global scale. To improve birth outcomes, it is critical that health facilities provide quality care....

    Authors: Andrea Melberg, Abdoulaye Hama Diallo, Thorkild Tylleskär and Karen Marie Moland
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:292
  6. Assessing the feasibility of conducting a prospective Reproductive Age Mortality Survey (RAMOS) study in the low-income setting of Mangochi District, Malawi to obtain cotemporaneous estimates of the number, ca...

    Authors: Florence Mgawadere, Regine Unkels, Adetoro Adegoke and Nynke van den Broek
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:291
  7. During pregnancy, a sedentary lifestyle may have negative consequences on maternal and foetal health status. The main objective of this project is to assess the effects of an exercise intervention in overweigh...

    Authors: Virginia A. Aparicio, Olga Ocón, Carmen Padilla-Vinuesa, Alberto Soriano-Maldonado, Lidia Romero-Gallardo, Milkana Borges-Cósic, Irene Coll-Risco, Pilar Ruiz-Cabello, Pedro Acosta-Manzano, Fernando Estévez-López, Inmaculada C. Álvarez-Gallardo, Manuel Delgado-Fernández, Jonatan R. Ruiz, Mireille N. Van Poppel and Julio J. Ochoa-Herrera
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:290
  8. Support from a doula is known to have physical and emotional benefits for mothers, but there is little evidence about the experiences of volunteer doulas. This research aimed to understand the motivation and e...

    Authors: Helen Spiby, Jenny Mcleish, Josephine Green and Zoe Darwin
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:289
  9. We aimed to determine whether the association between obesity and a range of adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes differed in South Asian and Australian and New Zealand born women.

    Authors: Miranda Davies-Tuck, Joanne C. Mockler, Lynne Stewart, Michelle Knight and Euan M. Wallace
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:288
  10. This study aimed to investigate the percentage of the needs and expectations of pregnant women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) about the best sources of information on GDM, their satisfaction with the...

    Authors: Padaphet Sayakhot and Mary Carolan-Olah
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:287
  11. Anxiety is associated with preterm deliveries in general (before week 37 of pregnancy), but is that also true for late preterm (weeks 34/0–36/6) and early term deliveries (weeks 37/0–38/6)? We aim to examine t...

    Authors: Margarete Erika Vollrath, Verena Sengpiel, Markus A. Landolt, Bo Jacobsson and Beatrice Latal
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:286
  12. Women are an increasing minority of prisoners worldwide, and most are of childbearing age. Prisons offer unique opportunities for improving the pregnancy outcomes of these high-risk women, and no systematic re...

    Authors: Eleanor Bard, Marian Knight and Emma Plugge
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:285
  13. Births before arrival (BBA) to health care facilities are associated with higher rates of perinatal morbidity and mortality compared to facility deliveries or planned home births. Research on such births has b...

    Authors: Shannon A. McMahon, Rachel P. Chase, Peter J. Winch, Joy J. Chebet, Giulia V. R. Besana, Idda Mosha, Zaina Sheweji and Caitlin E. Kennedy
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:284
  14. The maternal, newborn and child health care continuum require that mother/child pair should receive the full package of antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care in order to derive maximum benefits. Continuity...

    Authors: Joshua O. Akinyemi, Rotimi F. Afolabi and Olutosin A. Awolude
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:282
  15. Although respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) is considered a disease of prematurity, there is evidence to suggest heterogeneity between early and late gestation RDS. We examined the epidemiologic features of R...

    Authors: Azar Mehrabadi, Sarka Lisonkova and K.S. Joseph
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:281
  16. Worldwide maternal perception of fetal movements has been used for many years to evaluate fetal wellbeing. It is intuitively regarded as an expression of fetal well-being as pregnancies in which women consiste...

    Authors: R. M. D. Smyth, W. Taylor, A. E. Heazell, C. Furber, M. Whitworth and T. Lavender
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:280
  17. The limited availability of maternal and child health data has limited progress in reducing mortality and morbidity among pregnant women and children. Global health agencies, leaders, and funders are prioritiz...

    Authors: Sonja L. Myhre, Jane Kaye, Lee A. Bygrave, Margunn Aanestad, Buthaina Ghanem, Patricia Mechael and J. Frederik Frøen
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:279
  18. Bacterial vaginosis (BV) during pregnancy is a well-established risk factor for preterm birth and other preterm pregnancy complications. Little is known about adverse neonatal outcomes associated with BV expos...

    Authors: Adam S. Dingens, Tessa S. Fairfortune, Susan Reed and Caroline Mitchell
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:278
  19. Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) contributes to the epidemic of diabetes and obesity in mothers and their offspring. The primary objective of this pilot study was to: 1) refine the GDM Management System (Go...

    Authors: Wanda K. Nicholson, A. Jenna Beckham, Karen Hatley, Molly Diamond, La-Shell Johnson, Sherri L. Green and Deborah Tate
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:277
  20. Stretch marks (Striae gravidarum) are a cutaneous change occurring commonly during pregnancy. A variety of products are available and promoted as ways to prevent or reduce their development, but it is not clea...

    Authors: Miriam Brennan, Mike Clarke and Declan Devane
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:276
  21. To identify the emotional, social and psychological consequences and recovery process of anal incontinence (AI) following obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS) and explore if this can be identified as a re...

    Authors: M. R. B. Keighley, Yvette Perston, Elissa Bradshaw, Joanne Hayes, D. Margaret Keighley and Sara Webb
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:275
  22. Stillbirth is a major contributor to perinatal mortality and it is particularly common in low- and middle-income countries, where annually about three million stillbirths occur in the third trimester. This stu...

    Authors: Gbenga A. Kayode, Diederick E. Grobbee, Mary Amoakoh-Coleman, Ibrahim Taiwo Adeleke, Evelyn Ansah, Joris A. H. de Groot and Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:274
  23. Maternity care in South Asia is available in both public and private sectors. Using data from demographic surveillance sites in Bangladesh, Nepal and rural and urban India, we aimed to compare institutional de...

    Authors: Sushmita Das, Glyn Alcock, Kishwar Azad, Abdul Kuddus, Dharma S. Manandhar, Bhim Prasad Shrestha, Nirmala Nair, Shibanand Rath, Neena Shah More, Naomi Saville, Tanja A. J. Houweling and David Osrin
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:273
  24. Drugs used during pregnancy can adversely affect the health and life of the mother and unborn child. However, the fact that drugs are needed to mitigate complications during pregnancy cannot be avoided. The pr...

    Authors: Ramesh Devkota, G. M. Khan, Kadir Alam, Amisha Regmi and Binaya Sapkota
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:272
  25. Previous research has demonstrated emotional, psychological and educational harm to young mothers following unintended conceptions. The UK has one of the highest rates of pregnancies in adolescence in Western ...

    Authors: Joanna M. Charles, Jo Rycroft-Malone, Rabeea’h Aslam, Maggie Hendry, Diana Pasterfield and Rhiannon Whitaker
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:271
  26. To reduce the burden of 5.3 million stillbirths and neonatal deaths annually, an understanding of causes of deaths is critical. A systematic review identified 81 systems for classification of causes of stillbi...

    Authors: Susannah Hopkins Leisher, Zheyi Teoh, Hanna Reinebrant, Emma Allanson, Hannah Blencowe, Jan Jaap Erwich, J. Frederik Frøen, Jason Gardosi, Sanne Gordijn, A. Metin Gülmezoglu, Alexander E. P. Heazell, Fleurisca Korteweg, Joy Lawn, Elizabeth M. McClure, Robert Pattinson, Gordon C. S. Smith…
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:269
  27. Babies born to adolescent mothers have been shown to have poorer outcomes compared to those born to adults. Nutritional status may have an important role to play in improving the health of pregnant adolescents...

    Authors: Katie Marvin-Dowle, Victoria Jane Burley and Hora Soltani
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:268
  28. Enabling women to make informed decisions is a key objective in the guidelines governing prenatal screening and diagnostics. Despite efforts to provide information, research shows that women’s choice of prenat...

    Authors: Annika Åhman, Anna Sarkadi, Peter Lindgren and Christine Rubertsson
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:267
  29. Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) occurs in 2–6 % of all pregnancies. We investigated whether area level deprivation is associated with a higher risk for GDM and whether GDM detection rates in deprived regio...

    Authors: Andreas Beyerlein, Daniela Koller, Anette-Gabriele Ziegler, Nicholas Lack and Werner Maier
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:266
  30. Each year, more than 200 million children under the age of 5 years, almost all in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), fail to achieve their developmental potential. Risk factors for compromised developme...

    Authors: Lisa G. Pell, Diego G. Bassani, Lucy Nyaga, Isaac Njagi, Catherine Wanjiku, Thulasi Thiruchselvam, William Macharia, Ripudaman S. Minhas, Patricia Kitsao-Wekulo, Amyn Lakhani, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Robert Armstrong and Shaun K. Morris
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:265
  31. Sensitive and responsive maternal caregiving behavior strengthens infant self-regulatory capacities (HL), but this regulatory role may be diminished in some mothers with second-trimester prenatal exposure to d...

    Authors: Fay F. Warnock, Kenneth D. Craig, Roger Bakeman, Thaila Castral and Jila Mirlashari
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:264
  32. Smoking cessation has been reported to be associated with high total gestational weight gain (GWG), which itself is a risk factor for adverse maternal-infant outcomes. Recent studies have criticized convention...

    Authors: Adam Hulman, Olha Lutsiv, Christina K. Park, Lynette Krebs, Joseph Beyene and Sarah D. McDonald
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:263
  33. Health professionals are expected to engage pregnant women in shared decision making to help them make informed values-based decisions about prenatal screening. Patient decision aids (PtDAs) foster shared deci...

    Authors: Johanie Lépine, Maria Esther Leiva Portocarrero, Agathe Delanoë, Hubert Robitaille, Isabelle Lévesque, François Rousseau, Brenda J. Wilson, Anik M. C. Giguère and France Légaré
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:262
  34. Postpartum Haemorrhage (PPH) is a leading cause of maternal mortality with approximately 225 women dying as a result of it each day especially in low income countries. However, much less is known about morbidi...

    Authors: Margaret Carroll, Deirdre Daly and Cecily M. Begley
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:261
  35. Nonclinical studies indicate that the hormone relaxin is a good candidate for a safe cervical ripening agent that does not cause uterine contractions.

    Authors: Gerson Weiss, Sam Teichman, Dennis Stewart, David Nader, Susan Wood, Peter Breining and Elaine Unemori
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:260
  36. Active participation of consumers in health care decision making, policy and clinical research is increasingly encouraged by governments, influential bodies and funders. Identifying the best way to achieve thi...

    Authors: E. L. McGoldrick, T. Crawford, J. A. Brown, K. M. Groom and C. A. Crowther
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:259
  37. Prolonged second stage of labour is a major cause of perinatal and maternal morbidity and mortality in low-income countries. Vacuum extraction is a proven effective intervention, hardly used in Africa. Many au...

    Authors: Barbara Nolens, John Lule, Flavia Namiiro, Jos van Roosmalen and Josaphat Byamugisha
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:258
  38. Rwanda has made remarkable progress in decreasing the number of maternal deaths, yet women still face morbidities and mortalities during pregnancy. We explored care-seeking and experiences of maternity care am...

    Authors: Jessica Påfs, Aimable Musafili, Pauline Binder-Finnema, Marie Klingberg-Allvin, Stephen Rulisa and Birgitta Essén
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:257
  39. Rates of maternal mortality and morbidity vary markedly, both between and within countries. Documenting these variations, in a very unequal society like South Africa, provides useful information to direct init...

    Authors: Njeri Wabiri, Matthew Chersich, Olive Shisana, Duane Blaauw, Helen Rees and Ntabozuko Dwane
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:256
  40. The majority of births in Mexico take place in a health facility and are attended by a skilled birth attendant, yet maternal mortality has not declined to anticipated levels. Coverage estimates of skilled atte...

    Authors: Ann K. Blanc, Claudia Diaz, Katharine J. McCarthy and Karla Berdichevsky
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:255
  41. Eclampsia is the main cause of maternal death in Brazil. Magnesium sulfate is the drug of choice for seizure prevention and control in the management of severe preeclampsia and eclampsia. Despite scientific ev...

    Authors: Fátima Aparecida Lotufo, Mary Angela Parpinelli, Maria José Osis, Fernanda Garanhani Surita, Maria Laura Costa and José Guilherme Cecatti
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:254
  42. Supplementing pregnant and lactating mothers with small quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNS) has resulted in improvements in birth outcomes in some low-income settings. In order to be effective, ...

    Authors: Moses K. Klevor, Seth Adu-Afarwuah, Per Ashorn, Mary Arimond, Kathryn G. Dewey, Anna Lartey, Kenneth Maleta, Nozgechi Phiri, Juha Pyykkö, Mamane Zeilani and Ulla Ashorn
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:253
  43. Encouraging institutional birth is an important component of reducing maternal mortality in low-resource settings. This study aims to identify and understand the determinants of persistently low institutional ...

    Authors: Sheela Maru, Sindhya Rajeev, Richa Pokhrel, Agya Poudyal, Pooja Mehta, Deepak Bista, Lynn Borgatta and Duncan Maru
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:252
  44. While global maternal mortality declined 44 % between 1990 and 2015, the majority of countries fell short of attaining Millennium Development Goal targets. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted in ...

    Authors: Allisyn C. Moran, R. Rima Jolivet, Doris Chou, Sarah L. Dalglish, Kathleen Hill, Kate Ramsey, Barbara Rawlins and Lale Say
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:250
  45. Authors: Denice S. Feig, Elizabeth Asztalos, Rosa Corcoy, Alberto De Leiva, Lois Donovan, Moshe Hod, Lois Jovanovic, Erin Keely, Craig Kollman, Ruth McManus, Kellie Murphy, Katrina Ruedy, J. Johanna Sanchez, George Tomlinson and Helen R. Murphy
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:249

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  46. Existing studies regarding women’s experiences surrounding an External Cephalic Version (ECV) report on women who have a persistent breech post ECV and give birth by caesarean section, or on women who had succ...

    Authors: N. P. Watts, K. Petrovska, A. Bisits, C. Catling and C. S. E. Homer
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:248
  47. Small-for-gestational-age in infancy is a known risk factor not only for short-term prognosis but also for several long-term outcomes, such as neurological and metabolic disorders in adulthood. Previous resear...

    Authors: Seiichi Morokuma, Mototsugu Shimokawa, Kiyoko Kato, Masafumi Sanefuji, Eiji Shibata, Mayumi Tsuji, Ayako Senju, Toshihiro Kawamoto and Koichi Kusuhara
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:247

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