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Determinants of severity levels of anemia among pregnant women in Sub-Saharan Africa: multilevel analysis 撒哈拉以南非洲孕妇贫血严重程度的决定因素：多层次分析

Frontiers in Global Women's Health Pub Date : 2024-04-09 DOI: 10.3389/fgwh.2024.1367426

Lire Lemma Tirore, Abriham Shiferaw Areba, H. Tamrat, Aklilu Habte, D. E. Abame

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Acknowledging unintended consequences of researching informal sperm donation networks: an opinion 承认非正式捐精网络研究的意外后果：一种观点

Frontiers in Global Women's Health Pub Date : 2024-04-08 DOI: 10.3389/fgwh.2024.1350640

Lisa Jean Moore

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Breaking the maternity mold: navigating the return to work and challenging rigid maternal beliefs through an online psychological intervention 打破孕产模式：通过在线心理干预引导重返工作岗位并挑战僵化的孕产观念

Frontiers in Global Women's Health Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI: 10.3389/fgwh.2024.1266162

S. Rapisarda, A. De Carlo, Elena Pasqualetto, Brenda L. Volling, Laura Dal Corso

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Beyond constructs and principles: addressing gender-related barriers to high, equitable immunization coverage 超越概念和原则：消除与性别有关的障碍，实现公平的高免疫覆盖率

Frontiers in Global Women's Health Pub Date : 2024-04-03 DOI: 10.3389/fgwh.2024.1367590

Willow Gerber, Rebecca Fields, Neide Guesela, Khadijah A. Ibrahim Nuhu, Eugene Manika

{"title":"Beyond constructs and principles: addressing gender-related barriers to high, equitable immunization coverage","authors":"Willow Gerber, Rebecca Fields, Neide Guesela, Khadijah A. Ibrahim Nuhu, Eugene Manika","doi":"10.3389/fgwh.2024.1367590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2024.1367590","url":null,"abstract":"The global immunization community has only recently recognized that addressing gender-related barriers to vaccination is critical to improving equity and increasing protection against vaccine-preventable diseases. USAID's MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity project aims to strengthen routine immunization programs to overcome entrenched obstacles to reaching zero-dose and under-immunized children while supporting the introduction of other new vaccines given over the life course. From the outset, the project recognized the need to mainstream gender into its global and country level work, incorporating gender considerations into all phases of the program cycle, from assessment to activity design, strategic communications, monitoring, evaluation, and continuous learning. Its gender mainstreaming efforts focus on five areas of improvement for immunization: service access and convenience; service quality and experience; communication and demand generation for immunization among caregivers (both women and men) and families; making services more responsive to agency and autonomy constraints of female caregivers; and the conditions and circumstances of health workers, who are mostly women. The authors describe approaches the project has applied to build capacity of its own global and country level staff to both recognize the gender dimensions inherent in common obstacles to immunization and ways to address them. Authors describe project activities carried out at global and country levels and share experience and challenges encountered in increasing recognition of gender barriers, moving from theory to practical action in addressing them, building capacity, and gauging the success of the work to date. The lessons learned are useful to colleagues working within the circumstances of time-limited and geography-specific projects whose main focus is to improve equity in immunization.","PeriodicalId":504610,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Global Women's Health","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140746854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The impact of informant-related characteristics including sex/gender on assessment of Alzheimer's disease symptoms and severity 信息提供者的相关特征（包括性别）对阿尔茨海默病症状和严重程度评估的影响

Frontiers in Global Women's Health Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.3389/fgwh.2024.1326881

E. Abken, M. T. Ferretti, Laura Castro-Aldrete, A. Santuccione Chadha, M. C. Tartaglia

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Experiences of young mothers with the uptake of Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine for intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy: a cross-sectional study in the Lake endemic region, Kenya 肯尼亚湖区疟疾流行地区横断面研究：年轻母亲使用磺胺乙胺嘧啶间歇预防性治疗妊娠期疟疾的经验

Frontiers in Global Women's Health Pub Date : 2024-03-26 DOI: 10.3389/fgwh.2024.1294893

D. Matanda, Tchaiwe Zulu, George Odwe, Oscar Okoth, Zoe Nakuya

{"title":"Experiences of young mothers with the uptake of Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine for intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy: a cross-sectional study in the Lake endemic region, Kenya","authors":"D. Matanda, Tchaiwe Zulu, George Odwe, Oscar Okoth, Zoe Nakuya","doi":"10.3389/fgwh.2024.1294893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2024.1294893","url":null,"abstract":"A substantial proportion of the world population is affected by malaria with 241 million malaria cases reported globally. Intermittent Preventive Treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) with Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine (SP) is an effective chemotherapy but its utilisation has not been optimised. Few studies focus on young mothers and their experiences regarding the optimal uptake of IPTp-SP.The study design was cross-sectional with data derived from six focus group discussions with mothers aged 15–24 years who had a pregnancy and gave birth to a live baby within the last two years in Kisumu and Migori counties, Kenya. Inductive analysis was used to identify themes and patterns.Young mothers were motivated to take IPTp-SP during pregnancy if they had prior knowledge about SP and its associated benefits and if they were knowledgeable about the consequences of malaria infection during pregnancy. Perceived side effects of SP, lack of awareness of SP as a malaria prevention therapy, lack of knowledge on the benefits of SP, dosage and frequency of uptake, poor communication by health providers towards young mothers, and inconsistent supply of SP at health facilities inhibited young mothers from attaining the recommended 3+ doses of IPTp-SP.There is a need for health literacy programmes that focus on increasing knowledge of IPTp-SP dosage, timing and benefits for both the young pregnant mother and her foetus. Community engagement through dialogue with mentor mothers and male partners will be an important complementary approach in establishing a support system for young women for positive health outcomes including attaining the recommended 3+ doses of IPTp-SP.","PeriodicalId":504610,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Global Women's Health","volume":"106 45","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140379759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Acceptance and hesitancy of COVID-19 vaccination among Saudi pregnant women 沙特孕妇对接种 COVID-19 疫苗的接受程度和犹豫程度

Frontiers in Global Women's Health Pub Date : 2024-01-26 DOI: 10.3389/fgwh.2024.1336766

Sereen Hawsawi, Abeer Orabi, H. Alnajjar

{"title":"Acceptance and hesitancy of COVID-19 vaccination among Saudi pregnant women","authors":"Sereen Hawsawi, Abeer Orabi, H. Alnajjar","doi":"10.3389/fgwh.2024.1336766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2024.1336766","url":null,"abstract":"Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, it has significantly impacted health systems and societies worldwide. Pregnancy increases the risk of severe illness when associated with COVID-19. Pregnant women are likely to experience COVID-19-related pregnancy complications however many of them were hesitant to receive the vaccine. This study aimed to assess the acceptance and hesitancy of COVID-19 vaccination among pregnant women in Jeddah.The present study utilized a descriptive cross-sectional research design to include pregnant women through convenience sampling at the obstetrics and gynecology outpatient department and antenatal ward at King Abdul-Aziz Medical City, Jeddah. Data was collected from August to October 2022 using a structured questionnaire.Approximately one-third of the 264 participants (36.4%) strongly disagreed that they had developed immunity against COVID-19. More than half of them (61% and 66.3% respectively) had heard that the vaccine was unsafe for them and their babies during pregnancy, and it would contain the COVID-19 virus. However, half of them 50% agreed that vaccination would ease precautionary measures. A high acceptance score toward COVID-19 vaccination was observed among pregnant women working in the health sector. The most frequently reported reason for vaccination refusal was the belief that it was unsafe for the mother and her baby during pregnancy.Most of the participants perceived their susceptibility to COVID-19 infection as low and were hesitant to take the vaccine because of their worry about its effectiveness. However, they indicated a willingness to take the vaccine if it was mandatory and if they received adequate information about it. These findings correspond with previous studies conducted in Saudi Arabia that explore the reluctance of pregnant and breastfeeding women to receive COVID-19 vaccination.","PeriodicalId":504610,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Global Women's Health","volume":"34 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139594266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Modern contraceptive prevalence and its predictors among non-refugee and refugee Somali women in Nairobi city, Kenya; a comparative view 肯尼亚内罗毕市非难民妇女和索马里难民妇女的现代避孕普及率及其预测因素；比较观点

Frontiers in Global Women's Health Pub Date : 2024-01-19 DOI: 10.3389/fgwh.2024.1328612

E. Gitonga, Anastasia J. Gage

{"title":"Modern contraceptive prevalence and its predictors among non-refugee and refugee Somali women in Nairobi city, Kenya; a comparative view","authors":"E. Gitonga, Anastasia J. Gage","doi":"10.3389/fgwh.2024.1328612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2024.1328612","url":null,"abstract":"This study sought to determine the prevalence and predictors of modern contraceptive use among non-refugee and refugee Somali women in Nairobi City, Kenya. The analysis was based on 976 currently married Somali women aged 15–39 years (non-refugees; 523, refugees; 415) who were interviewed in a 2021 household survey conducted in Kamukunji, Embakasi, and Ruaraka sub-counties of Nairobi City. The analysis was stratified by refugee status and multivariable logistic regression were run to determine predictors of modern contraceptive use in each group.The prevalence of modern contraceptives was 34% for the total sample and 43% and 24% for non-refugees and refugees, respectively. The main methods of contraception among non-refugees were injectables, implants, and daily pills, while refugees mainly used male condoms, implants, and injectables. Stratified multivariable analysis showed that residence in formal vs. informal settlements was associated with significantly higher odds of modern contraceptive use among non-refugees but significantly lower odds among refugees, after controlling for other factors. Interaction terms confirmed that the strength of the associations of these variables with the odds of modern contraceptive use varied significantly by refugee status.Use of modern methods of contraception was lower among non-refugee and refugee Somali women compared to the national average and refugee status moderated the association of some predictor variables with the odds of modern contraceptive use. To increase use of modern contraceptives in urban areas, it is recommended that the Ministry of Health, refugee agencies, and county governments engage with the Somali community and implement appropriate interventions to empower refugee women economically and promote their access to and use of voluntary contraception services as soon as they settle in urban areas.","PeriodicalId":504610,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Global Women's Health","volume":"94 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139612416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Strengthening woman-centred care for pregnant women with female genital mutilation in Australia: a qualitative muti-method study 在澳大利亚加强对切割女性生殖器的孕妇提供以妇女为中心的护理：定性多方法研究

Frontiers in Global Women's Health Pub Date : 2024-01-16 DOI: 10.3389/fgwh.2024.1248562

S. Turkmani, Angela Dawson

{"title":"Strengthening woman-centred care for pregnant women with female genital mutilation in Australia: a qualitative muti-method study","authors":"S. Turkmani, Angela Dawson","doi":"10.3389/fgwh.2024.1248562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2024.1248562","url":null,"abstract":"Woman-centred care is a collaborative approach to care management, where the woman and her health provider recognise one another's expertise and interact based on mutual respect to provide adequate information and individualised care. However, woman-centred care has not been fully achieved, particularly for women who have experienced female genital mutilation in high-income countries. A lack of clear guidelines defining how to implement woman-centred care may negatively impact care provision. This study sought to explore the quality of point-of-care experiences and needs of pregnant women with female genital mutilation in Australia to identify elements of woman-centred care important to women and how woman-centred care can be strengthened during consultations with health professionals. This multi-method qualitative study comprised two phases. In phase one, we conducted interviews with women with female genital mutilation to explore their positive experiences during their last pregnancy, and in phase two, a workshop was held where the findings were presented and discussed to develop recommendations for guidelines to support woman-centred care. The findings of the first phase were presented under three distinct categories of principles, enablers, and activities following a framework from the literature. In phase two, narrative storytelling allowed women to share their stories of care, their preferences, and how they believe health providers could better support them. Their stories were recorded visually. This study highlights the importance of a comprehensive approach to woman-centred care involving experts, clinicians, community members, and women in designing education, tools, and guidelines.","PeriodicalId":504610,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Global Women's Health","volume":"35 48","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139528614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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