云南白药治疗药物流产后出血的临床观察

目的　观察云南白药治疗药物流产 (药流 )后出血的疗效。方法　药流服用米索前列醇后 4 8h开始服用云南白药 ,2片 /次 ,3次 /d ,共 5d。与对照组进行比较 ,观察流血量、阴道流血持续时间等情况。结果　治疗组 6 6例 ,随访 6 4例 ,与对照组比较 ,阴道流血量与流血持续时间差异均显著。结论　药流多发生不全流产 ,流血多持续时间长 ,云南白药对治疗药流后流血止血效果显著。     

Can we modify the enrollment in a postpartum smoking cessation intervention in Spain?

Objective

it is known that very few women who continue to smoke at the time of delivery stop smoking during the postpartum period. Discovering strategies that can be incorporated during pregnancy to help improve women's participation in postpartum interventions could increase the number of women non-smokers. The aim of this study is to identify the predictors of participation by pregnant women smokers in a postpartum smoking cessation intervention.

Design

a cross-sectional study was carried out amongst women smokers who had attended to give birth.

Setting

women attended the University Clinical Hospital ‘Lozano Blesa’ of Zaragoza (Spain) who were smokers before pregnancy and reported at delivery to have continued smoking during pregnancy were eligible and were invited to participate in the study.

Findings

2044 women completed the questionnaire 24 hours after giving birth. The smoking prevalence during pregnancy was 18.2% (n=372) and 62.9% of them (n=234) participated. The logistic regression model provided five significant predictors for women who participated: intention to breast feed, having less of an urge to smoke the first cigarette of the day before pregnancy, having reduced consumption during pregnancy by 50% or more, having received advice and being willing to get help.

Conclusions and implications for the practice

the factors associated with participation show aspects that can be modified by maternal and child health professionals. Advice to stop smoking, received during pregnancy, encourages participation in a postpartum intervention. From the point of view of public health, the huge increase in the prevalence of smoking women poses the need to take advantage of the pregnancy as an opportunity for giving up smoking definitely. It would be necessary to identify what programmes of smoking cessation have better results in pregnant women and to know how to motivate health professionals to implement them.     

Relationship between the mode of conception and depressive symptoms during the first 6 months post‐partum in Japan

Purpose

To determine whether conventional treatment and assisted reproductive technology for infertility are associated with depressive symptoms and to identify the predictors of depressive symptoms during the first 6 months' post‐partum.

Methods

A prospective cohort design was used, with the participants being recruited from 13 Japanese hospitals. Using self‐report questionnaires, a total of 2709 women (response rate: 71.9%) provided longitudinal data at five time points: during their hospital stay and at 1, 2, 4, and 6 months' post‐partum. The depressive symptoms were measured by using the Japanese version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS). A logistic regression analysis was used to examine the association between the mode of conception and depressive symptoms and to identify the predictors of the depressive symptoms.

Results

There was no significant association between the mode of conception and the depressive symptoms at any time point. Six factors that were associated with the EPDS score were first‐time childbirth, emergency cesarean delivery, infant feeding, financial burden, having a male infant, and dissatisfaction with social support.

Conclusion

There was no significant relationship between the mode of conception and depressive symptoms. Nursing care should be based on individual assessments that focus on parity, the delivery method, infant feeding method, financial burden, the infant's sex, and social support, rather than on the mode of conception.     

Life course theory as a framework to examine becoming a mother of a medically fragile preterm infant

Life course theory, a sociological framework, was used to analyze the phenomenon of becoming a mother, with longitudinal narrative data from 34 women who gave birth prematurely after a high-risk pregnancy, and whose infant became medically fragile. Women faced challenges of mistimed birth and mothering a technologically dependent infant. Before social ties were established, legal and biological ties required mothers to make critical decisions about their infants. Liminality characterized mothers' early involvement with their infants. The mothers worked to know, love, and establish deeper attachments to this baby. The infant's homecoming was a key turning point; it decreased liminality of early mothering, increased mothers' control of infants' care, and gave them time and place to know their infants more intimately.     

Common symptoms during pregnancy to predict depression and health status 14 years post partum

Objective

To examine the prospective association between symptoms commonly experienced during pregnancy and the mental and general health status of women 14 years post partum.

Methods

Data used were from the Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy, a community-based prospective birth cohort study begun in Brisbane, Australia, in 1981. Logistic regression analyses were conducted.

Results

Data were available for 5118 women. Women who experienced a higher burden of symptoms during pregnancy were at greater risk of becoming depressed and reporting poorer health status 14 years post partum. Women who experienced major problems during pregnancy were 4 times more likely to be depressed and nearly 8 times more likely to report poorer health status 14 years after the index pregnancy compared with women who experienced few problems.

Conclusions

Findings suggest that pregnant women who experience common symptoms during pregnancy are likely to experience poorer mental and self-reported general health 14 years after the pregnancy.