The effects of an educational intervention on women's contraceptive preferences in the immediate postpartum period: A cross-sectional study.

Objectives: To assess postpartum women's contraceptive preferences and the impact of an educational intervention on these preferences, identifying factors motivating method choices.

Method: This cross-sectional quantitative study included women within 48 h after delivery in a public Brazilian hospital. Participants were asked about their contraceptive preferences before and after an educational intervention, which aimed to inform women about the importance of early postpartum contraception, available methods, mechanisms of action, effectiveness, proper use, and side effects.

Choice and factors associated to the use of contraceptive methods among postpartum women: A prospective cohort study.

Objectives: To assess women's contraceptive preferences in the immediate postpartum period and identify factors associated with use of their desired contraceptive method six months later.

Material And Methods: This prospective cohort study included women ≤48 h after delivery at a single public Brazilian hospital. The women's interview took place in two different momentsbefore hospital discharge (in-person interview) and six months after delivery (by telephone contact).

Neovaginoplasty With Nile Tilapia Skin: Cytological and Microbiota Evaluation.

Objectives: To study the clinical, cytological, and vaginal microbiota findings in patients with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome who underwent neovaginoplasty using Nile tilapia fish skin.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with 7 cisgender women with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome who had previously undergone neovagina reconstruction using Nile tilapia fish skin at a university hospital. Local institutional review board approval and written permission from the patient were obtained.

Relationship between Resilience and the Impostor Phenomenon among Undergraduate Medical Students.

Introduction: Impostor Phenomenon (IP) is the inability to internalize success and a tendency to attribute success to external causes. Social and institutional support are strategies to avoid the problem, but only partially successful. Resilience has been considered protective against mental health disorders in medical students.

Anal High-risk HPV and Liquid-based Cytology of Immunocompetent Brazilian Women with Genital High-risk HPV.

Objective:  The purpose of this study was to compare the frequency of the occurrence of high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) and abnormal anal cytology in immunocompetent women with and without HPV-induced genital lesions.

Methods:  This analytical cross-sectional, observational study was conducted between July 2017 and December 2018 in a specialized outpatient clinic of a tertiary hospital in Fortaleza, CE. Fifty-seven immunocompetent women with and without genital intraepithelial lesions were assessed; they were divided into two groups: group 1 was comprised of women with HPV-associated genital lesions ( = 26), and group 2 was comprised of those without HPV-associated genital lesions ( = 31).

Continuation and satisfaction with intrauterine copper device inserted during caesarean delivery.

Purpose: The objective was to assess the continuation and satisfaction of women who had copper IUDs inserted during caesarean delivery, in addition to possible factors associated with device positioning.

Materials And Methods: A prospective, observational study was carried out involving 158 women who underwent copper IUD insertion during caesarean delivery in Fortaleza, Brazil. The women were followed up 6 weeks and 6 months after insertion of the IUD, at which time they completed a satisfaction questionnaire.