Search for dissertations about: "childbearing"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 100 swedish dissertations containing the word childbearing.

2. 21. Pregnant Adolescents in Vietnam : Social context and health care needs

   Author : Marie Klingberg-Allvin; Karolinska institutet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Adolescent sexual and reproductive health; adolescent childbearing; adolescent abortion; gender; midwifery education; midwifery ethics; Vietnam.;

   Abstract : Background: The number of childbearing adolescents in Vietnam is relatively low but they are more prone to experience adverse outcome than adult women. Reports of increasing rates of abortion and prevalence of STIs including HIV among youth indicate a need to improve services and counselling for these groups. READ MORE

4. 22. To desire and to choose : aspects of women's and men's urge to have children

   Author : Marianne Wikman; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Urge for children; ambivalence; reproductive choice; attitudes towards reproduction; conflicting views; childbearing motivation; gastrin; biopsychosodal;

   Abstract : The aim of this study was to increase available knowledge about women's and men’s desire for pregnancy and for a child/children to serve as a basis for further studies of problems and inconsistencies in the reproductive sphere. The motivation to become a parent was hypothesized as being not only of an existential, social, interpersonal and intrapsychic character but also a biologically anchored personality trait. READ MORE

5. 23. Teenage childbearing : pregnancy outcomes and long-term consequences for the mothers

   Author : Petra Otterblad Olausson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : maternal age; pregnancy in adolescence; pregnancy outcome; infant mortality; infant; premature; risk factors; socioeconomic factors; educational status; single parent; twins; cause of death;

   Abstract : The purposes of the thesis were to study effects of low maternal age on adverse pregnancy outcomes, predictors of teenage childbearing, and long-term effects of teenage motherhood on the women's social situation later in life and risk of premature death. The effects of low maternal age at first birth on risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes, primarily preterm birth and infant mortality, were studied in three population-based cohort studies. READ MORE

6. 24. Professional and social support for first-time mothers and partners during childbearing

   Author : Caroline Bäckström; Lena Mårtensson; Stina Thorstensson; Marie Golsäter; Ingegerd Hildingsson; Ingela Rådestad; Högskolan i Skövde; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Couple Relationship; Parent; Father; Co-mother; Sense of Coherence; Woman; Child and Family WomFam ; Kvinna; barn och familj WomFam ;

   Abstract : Background: Expecting a child and becoming a parent is one of life’s major events, during which the parents’ perspective on life and their couple relationship changes. For some parents, childbearing entails a decrease in parental couple relationship quality. READ MORE

7. 25. Epidemiological studies of vacuum extraction delivery : incidence, risk factors and subsequent childbearing

   Author : Charlotte Elvander; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to bring focus on factors and outcomes associated with vacuum extraction delivery (VE). Delivery by VE is associated with both maternal risks (such as obstetric anal sphincter ruptures, postpartum hemorrhage and a negative birth experience) and infant risks (such as scalp lacerations, cephalohematoma, intracranial hemorrhage and brachial plexus injury). READ MORE