Maternal health inequalities: focusing on Black pregnant women

Clay ingestion adverse health experiences during pregnancy among African women in London

Exploring safeguarding midwives' experiences of caring for pregnant women with substance dependency

This study used interpretative phenomenological analysis, a methodology with roots are in psychology and theoretical pillars in phenomenology, hermeneutics and idiography (Smith and Nizza, 2021)....

Anaemia and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in pregnant women in Ghana

This facility-based cross-sectional study extracted data from antenatal care registries at the Cape Coast Metropolitan Hospital in the Central Region of Ghana, analysing records for women from 1...

Gestational diabetes mellitus: ensuring healthy futures

Gestational diabetes mellitus is the most common medical condition to affect pregnant women, reported to affect 10–20% of pregnancies in England (NHS England, 2024a). Its prevalence is increasing...

The role of egg consumption in the first 1001 days of life: a narrative review

For this narrative review, PubMed was searched to identify key articles published between 2019 and 2024 investigating egg consumption during pregnancy, breastfeeding and/or infancy. The following...

Autistic women's experiences of the antenatal, intrapartum and early postnatal periods

The PICO mnemonic (Stern et al, 2014) was used to identify key words and develop the research question: what can midwives in England learn from studies exploring the experiences of autistic women in...

Fear of childbirth in nulliparous and multiparous women in Australia

A total of 141 nulliparous women and 212 multiparous women completed the W-DEQ and FoBS questionnaires (the primary outcome). The DASS questionnaire was completed by 138 nulliparous women and 204...

Antenatal care in Indonesia: a nationwide study

This study used a cross-sectional design to explore data from the 2017 Indonesian demographic and health survey (National Population and Family Planning Board et al, 2018). The survey was funded by...

Psychometric proprieties of the Arabic Cambridge worry scale among pregnant women

To facilitate tool translation and validation, a cross-sectional design was used for this psychometric study. Recruitment took place in five maternal and child health centres in Irbid city in north...

Health-seeking behaviours of pregnant adolescents: a scoping review

This study was developed based on Arskey and O'Malley's (2005) scoping review methodology. According to this framework, there are six stages: (1) identifying the research question, (2) identifying...

Short interpregnancy interval and adverse pregnancy outcomes among women in a Middle Eastern country

This study used a quantitative research approach with a retrospective, matched case-control design. It was conducted in the obstetric units of Sultan Qaboos University Hospital and Al-Rustaq Hospital....

Adolescent women's perspective of pregnancy in Iran: a qualitative study

This descriptive qualitative study used a thematic analysis approach (Braun and Clarke, 2006), and was conducted by combining data from urban and rural primary healthcare centres. All centres and all...

Does model of care affect women's health and wellbeing in the perinatal period in Sweden?

This study used a descriptive, retrospective design to review comprehensive register data for low-risk pregnancies between 2010 and 2015. Ethical approval and permission to use data from the register...

Pregnant women's knowledge of venous thromboembolism in Malaysia

A total of 143 pregnant women completed the questionnaire. The findings of this study are presented under three headings: participants' demographic characteristics, participants' knowledge of venous...