Shayesteh Shirzadi, Mohammad Asghari-Jafarabadi, Mahnaz M Harrison, Hamid Allahverdipour
{"title":"Development and validation of the psychometric properties of the perceived barriers of mammography scale.","authors":"Shayesteh Shirzadi, Mohammad Asghari-Jafarabadi, Mahnaz M Harrison, Hamid Allahverdipour","doi":"10.1080/07399332.2021.1971671","DOIUrl":"10.1080/07399332.2021.1971671","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We aimed to develop and test the psychometric properties of the Perceived Barriers of Mammography Scale (PBMS-23). Based on a mixed method design researchers generated item pool through qualitative data and literature review and next, 500 women ages 40 to 69 years completed the questionnaire. Based on exploratory and confirmatory Factor Analysis, 23 items, researchers revealed eight domains of fate and destiny, breast conflict, defense avoidance, inconveniences/difficulties of mammography screening, contrasting/competing priorities, fear, distrust of mammography, and lack of knowledge with appropriate fitness for the data. PBMS-23 is valid and reliable instrument for assessing perceived barriers of mammography.</p>","PeriodicalId":47836,"journal":{"name":"Health Care for Women International","volume":" ","pages":"621-641"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139747507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practitioner perspectives in volume 45:10.","authors":"Eleanor Krassen Covan","doi":"10.1080/07399332.2024.2412954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2024.2412954","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47836,"journal":{"name":"Health Care for Women International","volume":"45 10","pages":"i-ii"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of long-term, regular yoga on the pain and quality of life in women with premenstrual syndrome: A randomized controlled, single-blinded trial.","authors":"Duygu Korkem Yorulmaz, Gizem Leyla Ertarakcı, Tezel Yıldırım Sahan, Duygu Turker","doi":"10.1080/07399332.2023.2283425","DOIUrl":"10.1080/07399332.2023.2283425","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) has been known to have emotional, physical, and behavioral effects in reproductive age. To evaluate the effects of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) on pain and quality of life in women, who perform regular yoga exercises in the long term. 30 women with PMS and 30 control (31.17 ± 5.28 years old) participated in this randomized controlled, single blinded study. The demographics of the PMS and control groups were similar (<i>p</i> < 0.05). A significant difference was found in a depressive mood, anxiety, fatigue, pain, depressive thoughts, sleeping habits subscales, and total scores of the PMSS, WHOQOL-BREF scale, and VAS scores between yoga and control groups (<i>p</i> < 0.05). It is determined that long-term and regular yoga practice for women with PMS will improve their, PMS symptoms, quality of life, and pain level.</p>","PeriodicalId":47836,"journal":{"name":"Health Care for Women International","volume":" ","pages":"1048-1060"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139724536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Obstetric violence in southwestern Turkey: Risk factors and its relationship to postpartum depression.","authors":"Serpil Abalı Çetin, Gül Ergün, Işıl Işık","doi":"10.1080/07399332.2023.2172411","DOIUrl":"10.1080/07399332.2023.2172411","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study was conducted to determine the relationship between violence, risk factors, and depression at the end of pregnancy. The sample of this descriptive and cross-sectional study consisted of 426 women for normal postpartum monitoring during the six-month period and living in southwestern Turkey of the study. About 5.6% of the women who participated in the study were exposed to obstetric violence. 5.2% of them were intimate partner violence before pregnancy. 79.1% (<i>n</i> = 24), 29.1%, and 25% of them were subjected to physical, sexual, and economic violence, respectively. In addition, 7.5% of women were exposed to verbal obstetric violence. It was found that the postpartum depression scores of the women who had been subjected to violence from their husbands before pregnancy were high.</p>","PeriodicalId":47836,"journal":{"name":"Health Care for Women International","volume":" ","pages":"217-235"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10818879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ma Ann Veronica G Gamboa, Emy Regina M Galang, Anne Christle T Garcia, Chastine Chloie G Gantuangco, R-Chian Jose D Germano, Maria Kayla Therese B Garcia, Ma Assunta D Gaspar
{"title":"From fearful to hopeful: A thematic content analysis of COVID-19 survivors' YouTube videos.","authors":"Ma Ann Veronica G Gamboa, Emy Regina M Galang, Anne Christle T Garcia, Chastine Chloie G Gantuangco, R-Chian Jose D Germano, Maria Kayla Therese B Garcia, Ma Assunta D Gaspar","doi":"10.1080/07399332.2023.2200067","DOIUrl":"10.1080/07399332.2023.2200067","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>COVID-19 survivors experienced a spectrum of emotions as a result of surviving the said disease. Employing thematic content analysis, the researchers characterized the various emotional manifestations among recovered COVID-19 patients, which are crucial indicators of their mental well-being postinfection. From March 2020 to June 2021, data was collated from 31 Filipino COVID-19 Survivors' YouTube videos. 51.61% of the videos were posted in 2020 and 48.39% were posted in 2021 where 70.97% of the survivors were female while 29.03% were male. 579 primary codes emerged and were narrowed down into sixteen themes where Hope (18.83%) arose as the most predominant emotion followed by Gratitude (14.68%), Joy and Relief (14.16%), Faith (11.57%), Plight Response (10.88%), Sadness (10.88%), Fear (6.39%), and nine others (12.61%).</p>","PeriodicalId":47836,"journal":{"name":"Health Care for Women International","volume":" ","pages":"475-492"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9365246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laura E Britton, Katherine Tumlinson, Caitlin R Williams, Debborah Wambua, Dickens Onyango, Elise Mantell, Maureen George
{"title":"Findings from a mixed-methods journey map study of barriers to family planning in western Kenya.","authors":"Laura E Britton, Katherine Tumlinson, Caitlin R Williams, Debborah Wambua, Dickens Onyango, Elise Mantell, Maureen George","doi":"10.1080/07399332.2022.2135097","DOIUrl":"10.1080/07399332.2022.2135097","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Our objective was to map and prioritize barriers to high-quality family planning care in western Kenya. We conducted key informant interviews (<i>n</i> = 19); focus group discussions with clients (<i>n</i> = 55); mystery client visits (<i>n</i> = 180); unannounced visitors (<i>n</i> = 120); and direct observation of client-provider interactions (<i>n</i> = 256) at public facilities offering family planning. We synthesized the data into a client and a provider journey map, which we used to facilitate client (<i>n</i> = 9) and provider (<i>n</i> = 12) discussions. For both groups, stockouts were frequent, impactful, and important barriers. Clients also reported male partner resistance, insufficient counseling, and informal fees were priority barriers.</p>","PeriodicalId":47836,"journal":{"name":"Health Care for Women International","volume":" ","pages":"144-160"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10188649/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9486593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M Elise Radina, Deonni P Stolldorf, Vaughn G Sinclair, Mary S Dietrich, Melissa A Adair, Terrah Akard, Sheila Ridner
{"title":"Development and preliminary validation of a health-related family quality of life instrument.","authors":"M Elise Radina, Deonni P Stolldorf, Vaughn G Sinclair, Mary S Dietrich, Melissa A Adair, Terrah Akard, Sheila Ridner","doi":"10.1080/07399332.2023.2190984","DOIUrl":"10.1080/07399332.2023.2190984","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The researchers' aims for this preliminary study was to develop an instrument, guided by the Theory of Health-related Family Quality of Life, to measure health-related family quality of life (HR-FQoL) as perceived by women with cancer. The researchers used a two phase design for instrument development: (1) establishing face validity of a 38-item instrument with an expert panel and patient review, and (2) focusing on the internal structure and construct validity of the instrument with responses from female patients (<i>N</i> = 236) with a cancer diagnosis (breast, gynecologic). The researchers identified a final 25-item HR-FQoL instrument with four sub-scales that each captured multiple concepts within the Theory of HR-FQoL. The resulting instrument maybe used by researchers and clinicians to assess various aspects of health-related family quality of life among female breast and gynecological cancer survivors.</p>","PeriodicalId":47836,"journal":{"name":"Health Care for Women International","volume":" ","pages":"657-677"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9789051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
María García-Jiménez, Dolores Torres-Enamorado, Elena Sánchez-Sánchez, Carmen García-Gil, Rosa Casado-Mejía
{"title":"Caring for others without neglecting oneself? Grandparent caregivers, gender, and perceived health-related quality of life.","authors":"María García-Jiménez, Dolores Torres-Enamorado, Elena Sánchez-Sánchez, Carmen García-Gil, Rosa Casado-Mejía","doi":"10.1080/07399332.2024.2316142","DOIUrl":"10.1080/07399332.2024.2316142","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this study, we explored the impact of caregiving on quality of life and health perceptions and outlined the profile of grandparent caregivers in Andalusia (Spain) in terms of a range of sociodemographic variables related to the care of their grandchildren. A sample of 171 participants (21.6% men) completed the Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) questionnaire and another ad hoc one providing sociodemographic and caregiving data. We studied the relationships between these variables and HRQoL using ANOVA, chi-square and Multiple Linear Regression. We found a mainly female profile for the care of grandchildren and interesting relationships for the physical and mental components of HRQoL. Some relationships were marked by gender: caregiving for pleasure was more often the motive for men while by imposition was more common among women. We discuss the impact of caregiving on health according to the Self-Determination Theory and suggest practical implications derived from the main findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":47836,"journal":{"name":"Health Care for Women International","volume":" ","pages":"1286-1305"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139974033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interventions in maternal syphilis care globally: A scoping review.","authors":"Georgia Dewart, Jessica Muller, J Craig Phillips, Danielle Banaszak, Vera Caine","doi":"10.1080/07399332.2023.2294815","DOIUrl":"10.1080/07399332.2023.2294815","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Infectious and Congenital Syphilis rates continue to rise globally. Current recommendations for syphilis screening and treatment may be insufficient, and there is a pressing need for improved programs and services to address the increase in cases. A scoping review was conducted to examine approaches to maternal syphilis screening and treatment. Theoretical underpinnings and the key characteristics of these interventions were studied to identify gaps in the existing literature to guide future research. Developing a modified version of the socio-ecological model to guide data analysis, we included 33 academic studies spanning 31 years, covering a range of interventions, programs, and policies globally. We highlight key facets of interventions aligning with the five levels of the modified model that include: individual, interpersonal, institutional, community and policy. In this review, we provide valuable insights into the characteristics and principles of maternal syphilis screening and treatment interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47836,"journal":{"name":"Health Care for Women International","volume":" ","pages":"1061-1080"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139098943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mercy Ifeyinwa Obichili, Comfort Ajuma Ogwo, Kenneth Udeh, Chika Kate Obiechina, Venatus Vaatyough Kakwagh, Charles Chukwudi Eze, Verlumun Celestine Gever
{"title":"Effect of social media-based psychodrama therapy on reduction in symptoms of postpartum depression in women with first birth experience: The contributing role of spousal support.","authors":"Mercy Ifeyinwa Obichili, Comfort Ajuma Ogwo, Kenneth Udeh, Chika Kate Obiechina, Venatus Vaatyough Kakwagh, Charles Chukwudi Eze, Verlumun Celestine Gever","doi":"10.1080/07399332.2023.2243240","DOIUrl":"10.1080/07399332.2023.2243240","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We aimed to examine the impact of social media-based psychodrama therapy in reducing postpartum depression symptoms in first-time mothers. We conducted this study using a quasi-experiment with the use of pretest, posttest and follow-up evaluation after six months. We found a significant main effect of social media-based psychodrama therapy in reducing symptoms of postpartum depression in women <i>F</i>(1,503)= 713.413, <i>p</i> = 0.001, eta squared .441. We also found that this relationship is moderated by spousal support like physical, emotional and social support. Additionally, our results showed that first-time mothers experience PPD symptoms after childbirth more than experienced mothers. We equally found that psychodrama contributed in reducing symptoms of PPD in experienced mothers more than in first-time mothers. The implication of our result is that first-time mothers require more attention to assist them to recover from PPD symptoms than their experienced counterparts.</p>","PeriodicalId":47836,"journal":{"name":"Health Care for Women International","volume":" ","pages":"892-909"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9964775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}