A multi-centre cohort study shows no association between experienced violence and labour dystocia in nulliparous women at term.

Background: Although both labour dystocia and domestic violence during pregnancy are associated with adverse maternal and fetal outcome, evidence in support of a possible association between experiences of domestic violence and labour dystocia is sparse. The aim of this study was to investigate whether self-reported history of violence or experienced violence during pregnancy is associated with increased risk of labour dystocia in nulliparous women at term.

Methods: A population-based multi-centre cohort study.

Infantile colic, maternal smoking and infant feeding at 5 weeks of age.

Background: Many parents seek help from health professionals because of their infants' persistent crying in the early months. The aetiology of this condition, often labelled ;;infantile colic'', is still unclear.

Aims: To assess whether smoking during pregnancy, and/or smoking at infant age 5 weeks, is associated with infantile colic, and to describe how feeding at infant age 5 weeks and smoking are related to colic.

Utilisation of antenatal care by country of birth in a multi-ethnic population: a four-year community-based study in Malmö, Sweden.

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate differences in use of antenatal care in a multi-ethnic population in Malmö, Sweden, over a 4-year period. Age, parity, cohabiting status, use of an interpreter, and tobacco-use were examined to assess the potential effects of confounding factors.

Methods: A 4-year (2000-2003) retrospective community-based register study was performed.

The experience of Middle Eastern men living in Sweden of maternal and child health care and fatherhood: focus-group discussions and content analysis.

Objective: To describe how men from the Middle East experience Swedish maternity and child health care. An integral part of the aim of this study has also been to describe the experiences of men from the Middle East when becoming and being a father in Sweden.

Design, Setting And Participants: an exploratory, qualitative study using focus-group discussions and individual interviews, with a semi-structured interview guide and content analysis.

Compliance with child accident precautions by child health nurses.

The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which parents follow advice from child health nurses about child accident prevention. The study was performed in one of the 10 districts in the city of Malmö, Sweden. Parents to 90, 10-month old children in southern Sweden participated.

Health education to prevent anemia among women of reproductive age in southern India.

In this study, we used a narrow, but easily measured, indicator of how communication proceeded among health workers and women in Southern India. Anemia prevention during pregnancy was studied using a semistructured questionnaire. Participants included 5 nurses, 10 health aides, and 10 (traditional birth attendants) TBAs working with maternal health care and education, as well as 32 women seeking maternal health care.

Burn injuries in small children, a population-based study in Sweden.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe characteristics in burn injuries in children (zero to six years old), consulting primary care and hospital-based care in Malmö, Sweden. Burn-injured children consulting the University Hospital or the 21 Health Centres, during year 1998 and year 2002, were included.

Background: Epidemiological studies of burns in children have mostly been hospital-based and the cases that never reached the hospital have been excluded.

Low psychosocial resources during early pregnancy are not associated with prolonged labour.

Objectives: To examine if a low level of psychosocial resources in early pregnancy is associated with the occurrence of prolonged labour.

Study Design: A cross sectional study of 644 women expecting their first child. Participants were asked to complete a questionnaire at their first antenatal visit, measuring psychosocial resources defined as social network and support, work-related psychosocial factors, control of daily life and health characteristics.

Country of origin, social support and the risk of small for gestational age birth.

Aims: This study investigates the risk of small for gestational age (SGA) in relation to country of origin of the mother. The role of psychosocial resources, socioeconomic and lifestyle factors was examined in different causal models.

Methods: Among all pregnant nulliparous women in the city of Malmö, Sweden, who gave birth in 1991--92, 872 (87.

Physicians as clinical directors: working conditions, psychosocial resources and self-rated health.

Background: Physicians in clinical directors' positions fulfil their commitments in demanding work environments characterized by organizational changes and economic cutbacks. Little is known about the self-rated health of this group.

Aim: To investigate whether self-rated health was associated with psychosocial working conditions, professional networks, job support, social networks and social support, sick leave and salary in Swedish physicians working as clinical directors.

Psychosocial factors, lifestyle, and fetal growth: the added value of both pre- and post-natal assessments.

Background: Psychosocial resources as well as lifestyle habits during pregnancy have been shown to effect the risk of having a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) child. Most previous studies are based on a single assessment of these exposures, which does not take into account the possibility of different effects during early and late stages of pregnancy.

Methods: The impact of psychosocial and lifestyle factors on the risk of giving birth to an SGA child (as measured by ultrasound) was examined among 747 nulliparous Swedish women who completed both a prenatal baseline, and a post-partum assessment.