Publications by authors named "Stacey Pawlak"

Background: Breastfeeding shares a complex, occasionally contradictory relationship with maternal mental health. Both positive and negative mood impacts have been noted in relation to breastfeeding initiation as well as cessation. Though popular magazines and online forums discuss the onset of psychiatric symptoms following weaning, there is limited medical literature detailing this relationship.

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Objective: Determine if group psychoeducational support can improve in vitro fertilization (IVF) patients' quality of life (QoL).

Design: Randomized controlled trial (NCT04048772).

Setting: University-affiliated IVF clinic.

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Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) is a relatively common health problem, impacting around 25 million women globally. This study details the development of a multidisciplinary women's CPP clinic at a major U.S.

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Third-party reproduction is a growing field, and an increasing body of literature considers the ethics of embryo donation. Due to the psychosocial complexities that generally accompany the donation and/or use of donor embryos, psychologists can play a pivotal role in these specialised fertility cases. While laws in the USA are in place to regulate the medical procedures involved in embryo donation, only unenforceable guidelines exist for psychologists specialising in fertility cases.

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