Reproductive sex ending in failure affects sexual health - A qualitative study of men and women attending a fertility clinic.

Objective: To explore men's and women's experiences regarding their history of sexual health when attending a fertility clinic.

Methods: A qualitative study with semi-structured individual interviews was conducted among heterosexual males and females seeking infertility care at a public fertility clinic in Sweden in 2022-2023. The interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim and analyzed using qualitative content analysis.

Characteristics of good contraceptive counselling - An interview study.

Objective: One key component in preventing unplanned pregnancies is to provide effective contraceptive counselling. This study aimed to investigate what characterises good contraceptive counselling from the woman's perspective.

Methods: A qualitative study with a phenomenological approach.

Freebirth, the only option for women who do not fit into common practice- A Swedish national interview study.

Objective: To explore women's experience of freebirth, as giving birth without the presence of a skilled healthcare professional such as a midwife.

Methods: Online semi-structured interviews with nine multiparous women in Sweden. A qualitative experiential approach, as described by Burnard, was followed for data analysis.

Exploring Swedish single women's decision to choose motherhood through medically assisted reproduction - a qualitative study.

New legislation was introduced in Sweden in 2016, giving single women access to medically assisted reproduction (MAR). While Swedish single women's characteristics and motivations for choosing motherhood through MAR were assessed in our previous pilot survey, their experience of considering and making the decision to undergo MAR has not been assessed through a qualitative approach. Thus, the aim of this study was to explore Swedish single women´s experience of making the decision to choose motherhood through MAR.

Proportion, Characteristics and Maternal Outcome of women referred for childbirth to a tertiary hospital in northern Tanzania - A descriptive retrospective study based on a hospital birth registry.

Objective: Timely identification of danger signs and prompt referral to higher level may prevent complication associated with childbirth. With a high MMR in Tanzania, there is need to highlight the information on the proportion of women referred to tertiary healthcare, their basic characteristics and outcomes. This study aimed to determine the proportion, basic characteristics and outcomes among women referred while in labour, from lower health facilities to a tertiary hospital in northern Tanzania.