Sentences with phrase «antenatal care visit»

* The Tilly's Tracks project included pregnant Indigenous women who: were smokers; agreed to participate; attended for their first antenatal care visit before 20 weeks» gestation; were Townsville residents; did not have mental illness; and were not being treated for the use of any substance other than tobacco.

Of the 302 pregnant Indigenous women, 71.9 % identified as Aboriginal, 17.2 % as Torres Strait Islanders and 10.9 % as both, and 201 (66.6 %) self - reported current tobacco use at their first antenatal care visit.

Suitable drugs for intermittent preventive treatment during pregnancy (IPTp) must be safe for the mother and the fetus and able to be given during regular antenatal care visits while providing long - lasting protection.

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The packages had a range of components including additional training for lay health workers and other outreach workers, building community support, community mobilisation, antenatal and intrapartum home visits, and home - based care and treatment.

Other community - based intervention packages that may reduce neonatal mortality include home - based neonatal care and treatment and education of mothers and antenatal and postnatal visits (low - certainty evidence).

Experimental: women randomised to midwife - led care (MLU) received antenatal care from midwives and, if desired, from their GPs for some visits.

One compared volunteer counsellor support in antenatal and postnatal period to usual care (Graffy 2004), one compared proactive with reactive telephone support for mothers living in disadvantaged circumstances (Hoddinott 2012), one compared breastfeeding support and encouragement for mothers of preterm infants to usual care (Junior 2007), one compared home nurse visits to usual care for «well» breastfeeding newborns and mothers (Paul 2012), one compared prenatal paediatric home visits to usual care (Serwint 1996), and one compared support from a close female confidante to usual care (Winterburn 2003).

Control: «Routine antenatal care which also included a home visit to discuss breastfeeding, although this was without a female confidante», n = 42.

24 randomised and 2 non-randomised trials of intervention packages, including mainly: building community - support or women's groups (9 studies), community mobilisation and antenatal and postnatal home visitation (7 studies), community mobilisation and home - based neonatal treatment (1 study), training traditional birth attendants who made antenatal and intrapartum home visits (2 studies), home - based neonatal care and treatment (2 studies), and education of mothers and antenatal and postnatal visitation (2 studies)

Such visits were dependent on women's risk status during pregnancy (Biro 2000); routine for all women (one to three visits)(Flint 1989; Harvey 1996; Kenny 1994; MacVicar 1993; McLachlan 2012; Rowley 1995; Waldenstrom 2001), or based on the development of complications (Hicks 2003; Tracy 2013; Turnbull 1996) or antenatal care from midwives and, if desired by the woman, from the woman's general practitioner (Begley 2011).

Intervention 2: postnatal lactation support: in addition to routine care, women received 2 postnatal sessions with a LC, 1 in hospital within the first 3 postnatal days (when they received the same printed guides on breastfeeding as the antenatal education group) and 1 during the first routine postnatal visit 1 to 2 weeks after the birth.

An assessment of midwife salaries from the first antenatal visit up to and including labour and delivery care resulted in a cost of $ 653 for each team care woman and $ 688 for each routine care woman.

A difference of least 25 % in access to antenatal care (of at least four visits) between the most and least educated and between the richest and poorest.

The importance of the content and quality of routine antenatal care should not be lost to policymakers when decisions about numbers of visits with the available resources are being made.»

In all 16 studies, IPV was negatively associated with initiation of antenatal care, number of visits or use of a skilled provider.

Second, fewer women visited the clinic for antenatal care during the recruitment period than expected, resulting in fewer than expected participants, hence the power of the study to detect differences in characteristics between smokers and non-smokers was reduced — the study only had adequate power to detect differences of about 23 % between groups.

Since 2000 the Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Health Service's Mums and Babies Project increased the numbers of women presenting for antenatal care (from 40 to over 500 visits per month in 1 year).