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.

Investigating the association between neuroticism and adverse obstetric and neonatal outcomes.

Neuroticism is not only associated with affective disorders but also with certain somatic health problems. However, studies assessing whether neuroticism is associated with adverse obstetric or neonatal outcomes are scarce. This observational study comprises first-time mothers (n = 1969) with singleton pregnancies from several cohorts based in Uppsala, Sweden.

Health care providers' perceptions of family planning and contraception education for adolescents in Kampala, Uganda - A qualitative study.

Objectives: Unsafe abortions are a reproductive health problem in low-income countries, but can be prevented by decreasing unintended pregnancies. The objective was to describe health care providers' (HCPs) perceptions of family planning and contraception education for adolescents in Kampala, Uganda.

Study Design: A qualitative study with a semi-structured interview guide was used for individual face-to-face interviews.

Motherhood through medically assisted reproduction - characteristics and motivations of Swedish single mothers by choice.

Characteristics and motivations of single mothers by choice were assessed in this pilot study, after new legislation in 2016 allowing access to medically assisted reproduction (MAR). Single women at a university clinic in Sweden were sent a postal questionnaire to their home address ( = 86) and 54 (62.8%) women filled it out and returned it.

Neuroticism is associated with higher antenatal care utilization in obstetric low-risk women.

Introduction: Elevated neuroticism is associated with higher health care utilization in the general population. This study aimed to investigate the association between neuroticism and the use of publicly financed antenatal care in obstetric low-risk women, taking predisposing and need factors for health care utilization into consideration.

Material And Methods: Participants comprised 1052 obstetric low-risk women (no chronic diseases or adverse pregnancy conditions) included in several obstetrics/gynecology studies in Uppsala, Sweden.

Women's experiences of miscarriage related to diagnosis, duration, and type of treatment.

Introduction: Women with miscarriage experience several negative emotional feelings such as grief, isolation, coping, and despair. However, less is known about how the type of treatment and diagnosis of miscarriage influence the emotional experience.

Material And Methods: The present study was a randomized prospective longitudinal cohort study, in which women with spontaneous miscarriage (n = 35), and women with missed miscarriage (n = 67), were included to answer three validated questionnaires: Revised Impact of Miscarriage Scale, Perinatal Grief Scale, and Montgomery and Åsberg Depression Rating Scale, concerning experience of miscarriage, psychological well-being, and mental health 1 week and 4 months after finalized treatment.

Longitudinal study of emotional experiences, grief and depressive symptoms in women and men after miscarriage.

Objective: Although miscarriage is common and affects up to 20% of pregnant women, little is known about these couples' short term and long term experiences after miscarriage. The aim of the present study was to study emotional experience, grief and depressive symptoms in women and men, one week and four months after miscarriage.

Research Design /setting: Women, (n = 103), and their male partner (n = 78), were recruited at the gynecological clinic after miscarriage.

Psychiatric disorders in women and men up to five years after undergoing assisted reproductive technology treatment - a prospective cohort study.

This is a prospective cohort study with the objective to describe psychiatric disorders, such as any mood and anxiety disorders, in both women and men five years after assisted reproductive technology (ART). The Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders (PRIME-MD) questionnaire, based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), was used as the diagnostic tool to evaluate psychiatric disorders. Logistic regression analysis was used to calculate odds ratios (ORs) and confidence interval (CI) for factors associated with psychiatric disorders at the follow-up.

Validation of the Revised Impact of Miscarriage Scale for Swedish conditions and comparison between Swedish and American couples' experiences after miscarriage.

Introduction: There is a lack of knowledge in women's and men's experience of miscarriage. The Revised Impact of Miscarriage Scale (RIMS) has been used in United States to measure the experiences after miscarriage. The first objective was to test the consistency of RIMS for Swedish conditions.

Early skin-to-skin contact between healthy late preterm infants and their parents: an observational cohort study.

Background: Skin-to-skin contact (SSC) is an important factor to consider in the care of late preterm infants (born between 34 0/7 and 36 6/7 completed weeks of gestation). The literature suggests that SSC between preterm infants and their mothers facilitates breastfeeding. However, more studies are needed to explore potential dose-response effects between SSC and breastfeeding as well as studies that explicitly investigate SSC by fathers among late preterm infants.

Live birth outcome, spontaneous pregnancy and adoption up to five years after undergoing assisted reproductive technology treatment.

Introduction: This study is part of a longitudinal cohort undertaken in both women and men to describe live birth outcome after undergoing assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment in a clinical setting. Another objective was to follow women and men living with children from other alternatives after ART, such as adoption.

Material And Methods: A total of 439 (80.

Healthy late preterm infants and supplementary artificial milk feeds: effects on breast feeding and associated clinical parameters.

Objectives: to compare the influence of supplementary artificial milk feeds on breast feeding and certain clinical parameters among healthy late preterm infants given regular supplementary artificial milk feeds versus being exclusively breast fed from birth.

Design: a comparative study using quantitative methods. Data were collected via a parental diary and medical records.

The Swedish Version of the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale-Short Form: Reliability and Validity Assessment.

Background: Among Swedish mothers, breastfeeding duration has been declining in recent years. An instrument for early identification of women at risk for shorter breastfeeding duration may be useful in reversing this trend.

Objectives: The aims of this study were to translate and psychometrically test the Swedish version of the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale-Short Form (BSES-SF), examine the relationship between breastfeeding self-efficacy and demographic variables, and evaluate associations with breastfeeding continuation plans in Swedish mothers.

Outcome of deliveries in healthy but obese women: obesity and delivery outcome.

Background: Obesity among fertile women is a global problem. 25% of pregnant Swedish women are overweight at admission to the antenatal clinic and 12% of them are considered as obese. Previous studies have shown an increased risk of delivery complications with an elevated maternal BMI.

Unresolved grief in women and men in Sweden three years after undergoing unsuccessful in vitro fertilization treatment.

Objective: To explore the experience of undergoing unsuccessful in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment and of remaining childless 3 years after IVF in both women and men.

Design: Qualitative-approach study.

Sample: Ten women and nine men who had attended a public fertility clinic in Sweden.

Personality traits associated with depressive and anxiety disorders in infertile women and men undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment.

Objective: To assess which personality traits are associated with depressive and/or anxiety disorders in infertile women and men undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF).

Design: Prospective study.

Setting: A university hospital in Sweden.

Risk factors for psychiatric disorders in infertile women and men undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment.

Objective: To identify risk factors associated with depression and anxiety in infertile women and men undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF).

Design: Prospective study.

Setting: A university hospital in Sweden during a 2-year period.