Ausgabe 1/2014
Inhalt (157 Artikel)
Ways of coping with premenstrual change: development and validation of a premenstrual coping measure
Jennifer R Read, Janette Perz, Jane M Ussher
A case of a large solitary fibrous tumour of the uterine cervix
Andrzej Nowakowski, Wojciech Kozłowski, Dariusz Włodarczyk, Marta Szajnik-Szczepański, Włodzimierz Baranowski
Acute vulvar pain in a lady with post circumcision inclusion cyst of the vulva containing stones: a case report
Wondimu Gudu
Contraception, punishment and women who use drugs
Anna Olsen, Cathy Banwell, Annie Madden
Patterns, aetiology and risk factors of intimate partner violence-related injuries to head, neck and face in Chinese women
Janet Yuen-Ha Wong, Anna Wai-Man Choi, Daniel Yee-Tak Fong, John Kit-Shing Wong, Chu-Leung Lau, Chak-Wah Kam
Relationship between menopause and health-related quality of life in middle-aged Chinese women: a cross-sectional study
Kuo Liu, Liu He, Xun Tang, Jinwei Wang, Na Li, Yiqun Wu, Roger Marshall, Jingrong Li, Zongxin Zhang, Jianjiang Liu, Haitao Xu, Liping Yu, Yonghua Hu
Social, behavioral, and sleep characteristics associated with depression symptoms among undergraduate students at a women’s college: a cross-sectional depression survey, 2012
Katherine T Wilson, Ashley E Bohnert, Alex Ambrose, Destiny Y Davis, Dina M Jones, Matthew J Magee
Pilot test and validation of the Peak Day method of prospective determination of ovulation against a handheld urine hormone monitor
Christina A Porucznik, Kyley J Cox, Karen C Schliep, Joseph B Stanford
Educational level, prevalence of hysterectomy, and age at amenorrhoea: a cross-sectional analysis of 9536 women from six population-based cohort studies in Germany
Andreas Stang, Alexander Kluttig, Susanne Moebus, Henry Völzke, Klaus Berger, Karin Halina Greiser, Doris Stöckl, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Christa Meisinger
Women’s perspectives of female genital cutting: Q-methodology
Nazar P Shabila, Abubakir M Saleh, Rojan K Jawad
Urinary tract infection among obstetric fistula patients at Gondar University Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia
Yitayih Wondimeneh, Dagnachew Muluye, Abebe Alemu, Asmamaw Atinafu, Gashaw Yitayew, Teklay Gebrecherkos, Agersew Alemu, Demekech Damtie, Getachew Ferede
Female genital mutilation and intimate partner violence in the Ivory Coast
Karl Peltzer, Supa Pengpid
Gastrointestinal symptoms before and during menses in healthy women
Matthew T Bernstein, Lesley A Graff, Lisa Avery, Carrie Palatnick, Katie Parnerowski, Laura E Targownik
Reproductive factors, intima media thickness and carotid plaques in a cross-sectional study of postmenopausal women enrolled in the population-based KORA F4 study
Doris Stöckl, Annette Peters, Barbara Thorand, Margit Heier, Wolfgang Koenig, Jochen Seissler, Joachim Thiery, Wolfgang Rathmann, Christa Meisinger
Smoking- and alcohol habits in relation to the clinical picture of women with microscopic colitis compared to controls
Bodil Roth, Rita J Gustafsson, Bengt Jeppsson, Jonas Manjer, Bodil Ohlsson
Characteristics of sexual violence against adolescent girls and adult women
Márcia de Toledo Blake, Jefferson Drezett, Maria Auxiliadora Vertamatti, Fernando Adami, Vitor E Valenti, Adriana Costa Paiva, Joseval Martins Viana, Daniela Pedroso, Luiz Carlos de Abreu
Factors associated with the utilisation of postnatal care services among the mothers of Nepal: analysis of Nepal Demographic and Health Survey 2011
Vishnu Khanal, Mandira Adhikari, Rajendra Karkee, Tania Gavidia
Is the health status of female victims poorer than males in the post-disaster reconstruction in China: a comparative study of data on male victims in the first survey and double tracking survey data
Ying Liang, Runxia Cao
Women’s experiences and health care-seeking practices in relation to uterine prolapse in a hill district of Nepal
Binjwala Shrestha, Sharad Onta, Bishnu Choulagai, Amod Poudyal, Durga Prasad Pahari, Aruna Uprety, Max Petzold, Alexandra Krettek
Vocal local versus pharmacological treatments for pain management in tubal ligation procedures in rural Kenya: a non-inferiority trial
Sarah C Keogh, Kenzo Fry, Edwin Mbugua, Mark Ayallo, Heidi Quinn, George Otieno, Thoai D Ngo
A qualitative study of factors affecting mental health amongst low-income working mothers in Bangalore, India
Sandra Mary Travasso, Divya Rajaraman, Sally Jody Heymann
Participation in breast cancer screening among women of Turkish origin in Germany – a register-based study
Eva-Maria Berens, Lisa Stahl, Yüce Yilmaz-Aslan, Odile Sauzet, Jacob Spallek, Oliver Razum
Violence against women and unintended pregnancies in Nicaragua: a population-based multilevel study
Mariano Salazar, Miguel San Sebastian
Brazilian adolescents’ knowledge and beliefs about abortion methods: a school-based internet inquiry
Ellen MH Mitchell, Silke Heumann, Ana Araujo, Leila Adesse, Carolyn Tucker Halpern
Primary amenorrhea in adolescent girls: normal coitus or not? Always take a look in the physician's office
Flora Bacopoulou, George Creatsas, George P Chrousos, Nikoleta Papanikolaou, Efthimios Deligeoroglou
Assessment of reproductive health and violence against women among displaced Syrians in Lebanon
Amelia Reese Masterson, Jinan Usta, Jhumka Gupta, Adrienne S Ettinger
Women’s values in contraceptive choice: a systematic review of relevant attributes included in decision aids
Kirk D Wyatt, Ryan T Anderson, Douglas Creedon, Victor M Montori, John Bachman, Patricia Erwin, Annie LeBlanc
Estimates of delays in diagnosis of cervical cancer in Nepal
Deepak Gyenwali, Gita Khanal, Rajan Paudel, Archana Amatya, Jitendra Pariyar, Sharad Raj Onta
Women’s experiences following severe perineal trauma: a qualitative study
Holly Priddis, Virginia Schmied, Hannah Dahlen
Knowledge, attitude and practice about cancer of the uterine cervix among women living in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo
Catherine Ali-Risasi, Paul Mulumba, Kristien Verdonck, Davy Vanden Broeck, Marleen Praet
Clinical characteristics and quality of life in women with COPD: an observational study
Chantal Raherison, Isabelle Tillie-Leblond, Anne Prudhomme, Camille Taillé, Elisabeth Biron, Cecilia Nocent-Ejnaini, Benigne Mathieu, Juliette Ostinelli
Psychosocial factors and attendance at a population-based mammography screening program in a cohort of Swedish women
Magdalena Lagerlund, Jessica M Sontrop, Sophia Zackrisson
Inter-correlation of knowledge, attitude, and osteoporosis preventive behaviors in women around the age of peak bone mass
Ploynin Puttapitakpong, Sukanya Chaikittisilpa, Krasean Panyakhamlerd, Chaichana Nimnuan, Unnop Jaisamrarn, Nimit Taechakraichana
Health related quality of life in patients in dialysis after renal graft loss and effect of gender
Nanna von der Lippe, Bård Waldum, Tone-Brit Hortemo Østhus, Anna Varberg Reisæter, Ingrid Os
The effect of physical activity and body mass index on menopausal symptoms in Turkish women: a cross-sectional study in primary care
Makbule Neslisah Tan, Mehtap Kartal, Dilek Guldal
Dual method use for protection of pregnancy and disease prevention among HIV-infected women in South East Nigeria
Lucky O Lawani, Azubuike K Onyebuchi, Chukwuemeka A Iyoke
Differential effect of wealth quintile on modern contraceptive use and fertility: evidence from Malawian women
Stephen A Adebowale, Sunday A Adedini, Latifat D Ibisomi, Martin E Palamuleni
Breast cancer-preventive behaviors: exploring Iranian women’s experiences
Maryam Khazaee-Pool, Ali Montazeri, Fereshteh Majlessi, Abbas Rahimi Foroushani, Saharnaz Nedjat, Davoud Shojaeizadeh
Highly-cited estimates of the cumulative incidence and recurrence of vulvovaginal candidiasis are inadequately documented
Sujit D Rathod, Patricia A Buffler
Cervical cancer knowledge and screening behaviors among female university graduates of year 2012 attending national graduate orientation program, Bhutan
Tshering Dhendup, Pandup Tshering
The impact of a weight reduction program with and without meal-replacement on health related quality of life in middle-aged obese females
Sadaf Koohkan, Denise Schaffner, Brandy J Milliron, Ingrid Frey, Daniel König, Peter Deibert, Mara Vitolins, Aloys Berg
Demand for long acting and permanent contraceptive methods and associated factors among married women of reproductive age group in Debre Markos Town, North West Ethiopia
Gizachew Abdissa Bulto, Tatek Abate Zewdie, Teresa Kisi Beyen
Factors influencing adherence to regular exercise in middle-aged women: a qualitative study to inform clinical practice
Deanne McArthur, Alex Dumas, Kirsten Woodend, Sarah Beach, Dawn Stacey
Gender: shaping personality, lives and health of women in Pakistan
Narjis Rizvi, Kausar S Khan, Babar T Shaikh
A systematic review of effectiveness and safety of different regimens of levonorgestrel oral tablets for emergency contraception
Mohammad Shohel, Mohammad Mahfuzur Rahman, Asif Zaman, Mir Muhammad Nasir Uddin, Md Mamun Al-Amin, Hasan Mahmud Reza
Magnitude and risk factors of abortion among regular female students in Wolaita Sodo University, Ethiopia
Amha Admasie Gelaye, Kalemelekot Nigussie Taye, Tesfa Mekonen
Physical activity and mental health in women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Lauren K Banting, Melanie Gibson-Helm, Remco Polman, Helena J Teede, Nigel K Stepto
Prevalence, impacts and medical managements of premenstrual syndrome among female students: cross-sectional study in college of health sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Northern Ethiopia
Fikru Wakjira Tolossa, Mebratu Legesse Bekele
Vegan diet and blood lipid profiles: a cross-sectional study of pre and postmenopausal women
Yee-Wen Huang, Zhi-Hong Jian, Hui-Chin Chang, Oswald Ndi Nfor, Pei-Chieh Ko, Chia-Chi Lung, Long-Yau Lin, Chien-Chang Ho, Yi-Chen Chiang, Yung-Po Liaw
A case of recurrent, bilateral ovarian mature teratoma in a young woman
Che-Fu Chang, Chen-Kuo Lin
Exploring Australian Aboriginal Women’s experiences of menopause: a descriptive study
Janelle R Jurgenson, Emma K Jones, Emma Haynes, Charmaine Green, Sandra C Thompson
Plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D and risk of premenstrual syndrome in a prospective cohort study
Elizabeth R Bertone-Johnson, Susan E Hankinson, Nancy G Forger, Sally I Powers, Walter C Willett, Susan R Johnson, JoAnn E Manson
Experiences of barriers and facilitators to weight-loss in a diet intervention - a qualitative study of women in Northern Sweden
Anne Hammarström, Anncristine Fjellman Wiklund, Bernt Lindahl, Christel Larsson, Christina Ahlgren
“We no longer live in the old days”: a qualitative study on the role of masculinity and religion for men’s views on violence within marriage in rural Java, Indonesia
Elli N Hayati, Maria Emmelin, Malin Eriksson
Agenda-setting for Canadian caregivers: using media analysis of the maternity leave benefit to inform the compassionate care benefit
Sarah Dykeman, Allison M Williams
Associations of cardiorespiratory fitness with cardiovascular disease risk factors in middle-aged Chinese women: a cross-sectional study
Wenfei Zhu, Steven P Hooker, Yuliang Sun, Minhao Xie, Hao Su, Jianmin Cao
Predictors of HIV prevalence among street-based female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh state of India: a district-level analysis
G Anil Kumar, Rakhi Dandona, Michel Alary, Lalit Dandona
Age at menarche in relation to nutritional status and critical life events among rural and urban secondary school girls in post-conflict Northern Uganda
Beatrice Odongkara Mpora, Thereza Piloya, Sylvia Awor, Thomas Ngwiri, Paul Laigong, Edison A Mworozi, Ze’ev Hochberg
Health-related quality of life and influencing factors among rural left-behind wives in Liuyang, China
Jinyao Yi, Bin Zhong, Shuqiao Yao
Personality in women and associations with mortality: a 40-year follow-up in the Population Study of Women in Gothenburg
Malin André, Eva Billstedt, Calle Bengtsson, Tore Hällström, Lauren Lissner, Ingmar Skoog, Valter Sundh, Margda Waern, Cecilia Björkelund
Prevalence of domestic violence during pregnancy and related risk factors: a cross-sectional study in southern Sweden
Hafrún Finnbogadóttir, Anna-Karin Dykes, Christine Wann-Hansson
Clinical malaria among pregnant women on combined insecticide treated nets (ITNs) and intermittent preventive treatment (IPTp) with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine in Yaounde, Cameroon
Robinson Enow Mbu, William Ako Takang, Hortence Jeanne Fouedjio, Florent Ymele Fouelifack, Florence Ndikum Tumasang, Rebecca Tonye
Intimate partner sexual aggression against Chinese women: a mixed methods study
Agnes Tiwari, Denise Shuk Ting Cheung, Ko Ling Chan, Daniel Yee Tak Fong, Elsie Chau Wai Yan, Gloria Ling Lee Lam, Debbie Hoi Ming Tang
Tubal ectopic pregnancy two years after laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy
Emilia Villegas, Ernesto González-Mesa, María José Benítez, Sergio Luna, Cristina Gómez, Aurelia Marsac, Jesús Jiménez
A simple and feasible questionnaire to estimate menstrual blood loss: relationship with hematological and gynecological parameters in young women
Laura Toxqui, Ana M Pérez-Granados, Ruth Blanco-Rojo, Ione Wright, M Pilar Vaquero
Perceptions of and barriers to vaccinating daughters against Human Papillomavirus (HPV) among mothers in Hong Kong
Judy Yuen-man Siu
Barriers among Danish women and general practitioners to raising the issue of intimate partner violence in general practice: a qualitative study
Trine Mørk, Pernille Tanggaard Andersen, Ann Taket
Breast tuberculosis in Northeast Iran: review of 22 cases
Behnaz Khodabakhshi, Fatemeh Mehravar
The CROWN Initiative: journal editors invite researchers to develop core outcomes in women’s health
Khalid Khan, Peter O’Donovan
Perceived stress and emotional social support among women who are denied or receive abortions in the United States: a prospective cohort study
Laura F Harris, Sarah CM Roberts, M Antonia Biggs, Corinne H Rocca, Diana Greene Foster
Using verbal and social autopsies to explore health-seeking behaviour among HIV-positive women in Kenya: a retrospective study
Rebecca Njuki, James Kimani, Francis Obare, Charlotte Warren
Descriptive cross sectional study on prevalence, perceptions, predisposing factors and health seeking behaviour of women with stress urinary incontinence
Jennifer Perera, Dinoo S Kirthinanda, Sujani Wijeratne, Thanuja K Wickramarachchi
Factors associated with women’s autonomy regarding maternal and child health care utilization in Bale Zone: a community based cross-sectional study
Dabere Nigatu, Abebe Gebremariam, Muluemebet Abera, Tesfaye Setegn, Kebede Deribe
Abortion trends from 1996 to 2011 in Estonia: special emphasis on repeat abortion
Made Laanpere, Inge Ringmets, Kai Part, Kärt Allvee, Piret Veerus, Helle Karro
Awareness and correlates of the role of physical activity in breast cancer prevention among Japanese women: results from an internet-based cross-sectional survey
Rina Miyawaki, Ai Shibata, Kaori Ishii, Koichiro Oka
Xanthogranulomatous inflammation of the perimetrium with infiltration into the uterine myometrium in a postmenopausal woman: a case report
Tomoko Inoue, Katsutoshi Oda, Takahide Arimoto, Taiki Samejima, Yutaka Takazawa, Daichi Maeda, Masashi Fukayama, Kei Kawana, Yutaka Osuga, Tomoyuki Fujii
Effect of miscarriage history on maternal-infant bonding during the first year postpartum in the First Baby Study: a longitudinal cohort study
Cara Bicking Kinsey, Kesha Baptiste-Roberts, Junjia Zhu, Kristen H Kjerulff
Analysis of three strategies to increase screening coverage for cervical cancer in the general population of women aged 60 to 70 years: the CRICERVA study
Amelia Acera, Josep Maria Manresa, Diego Rodriguez, Ana Rodriguez, Josep Maria Bonet, Norman Sanchez, Pablo Hidalgo, Pilar Soteras, Pere Toran, Marta Trapero-Bertran, Iris Lozano, Silvia De Sanjose
Reliability of a wellness inventory for use among adolescent females aged 12–14 years
Jerome N Rachele, Thomas F Cuddihy, Tracy L Washington, Steven M McPhail
Understanding cervical cancer: an exploration of lay perceptions, beliefs and knowledge about cervical cancer among the Acholi in northern Uganda
Amos Deogratius Mwaka, Elialilia Sarikiaeli Okello, Juliet Kiguli, Elizeus Rutebemberwa
Sex trafficking awareness and associated factors among youth females in Bahir Dar town, North-West Ethiopia: a community based study
Muluken Azage, Gedefaw Abeje, Alemtsehay Mekonnen
Influences on visit retention in clinical trials: Insights from qualitative research during the VOICE trial in Johannesburg, South Africa
Busisiwe Magazi, Jonathan Stadler, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, Elizabeth Montgomery, Florence Mathebula, Miriam Hartmann, Ariane van der Straten
Giant uterine artery pseudoaneurysm after a missed miscarriage termination in a cesarean scar pregnancy
Yun Mou, Yuezhen Xu, Ying Hu, Tianan Jiang
Severe morbidities associated with induced abortions among misoprostol users and non-users in a tertiary public hospital in Ghana
Francis JMK Damalie, Edward T Dassah, Emmanuel SK Morhe, Emmanuel K Nakua, Harry K Tagbor, Henry S Opare-Addo
Sexual behaviour, contraceptive knowledge and use among female undergraduates’ students of Muhimbili and Dar es Salaam Universities, Tanzania: a cross-sectional study
Magreat J Somba, Milline Mbonile, Joseph Obure, Michael J Mahande
Postmenopausal women with osteopenia and a healed wrist fracture have reduced physical function and quality of life compared to a matched, healthy control group with no fracture
Kari Anne Hakestad, Lars Nordsletten, Monica Klungland Torstveit, May Arna Risberg
Breast bud detection: a validation study in the Chilean Growth Obesity Cohort Study
Ana Pereira, María Luisa Garmendia, Daniela González, Juliana Kain, Verónica Mericq, Ricardo Uauy, Camila Corvalán
Nontuberculous mycobacterial infection in a clinical presentation of Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome: a case report with multigene diagnostic approach
Hang-Yong Jang, Peter D Burbelo, Yang-Seok Chae, Tak Kim, Yunjung Cho, Hyun-Tae Park
Simplified follow-up after medical abortion using a low-sensitivity urinary pregnancy test and a pictorial instruction sheet in Rajasthan, India – study protocol and intervention adaptation of a randomised control trial
Mandira Paul, Kirti Iyengar, Sharad Iyengar, Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson, Birgitta Essén, Marie Klingberg-Allvin
Lippes Loop intrauterine device left in the uterus for 50 years: case report
Rosita Aniulienė, Povilas Aniulis
Women are considerably more exposed to intimate partner violence than men in Rwanda: results from a population-based, cross-sectional study
Aline Umubyeyi, Ingrid Mogren, Joseph Ntaganira, Gunilla Krantz
Geographic differences in the distribution of molecular subtypes of breast cancer in Brazil
Filomena M Carvalho, Lívia M Bacchi, Kátia M Pincerato, Matt Van de Rijn, Carlos E Bacchi
Huge pyogenic cervical cyst with endometriosis, developing 13 years after myomectomy at the lower uterine segment: a case report
Katsutoshi Oda, Yuji Ikeda, Daichi Maeda, Takahide Arimoto, Kei Kawana, Masashi Fukayama, Yutaka Osuga, Tomoyuki Fujii
Patients’ and physicians’ descriptions of occurrence and diagnosis of endometriosis: a qualitative study from Iran
Hedyeh Riazi, Najmeh Tehranian, Saeideh Ziaei, Easa Mohammadi, Ebrahim Hajizadeh, Ali Montazeri
Harnessing information technology to improve women’s health information: evidence from Pakistan
Rubeena Zakar, Muhammad Z Zakar, Shazia Qureshi, Florian Fischer
Molecular breast cancer subtypes and therapies in a public hospital of Northeastern Brazil
Ana Cláudia de Macêdo Andrade, Carlos Alberis Ferreira Júnior, Beatriz Dantas Guimarães, Ana Waleska Pessoa Barros, Gibran Sarmento de Almeida, Mathias Weller
How risky are second trimester clandestine abortions in Cameroon: a retrospective descriptive study
Elie Nkwabong, Robinson Enow Mbu, Joseph Nelson Fomulu
Mental health of victims of sexual violence in eastern Congo: associations with daily stressors, stigma, and labeling
An Verelst, Maarten De Schryver, Eric Broekaert, Ilse Derluyn
Evaluation of a group based cognitive behavioural therapy programme for menstrual pain management in young women with intellectual disabilities: protocol for a mixed methods controlled clinical trial
Susan Kennedy, Siobhan O’Higgins, Kiran Sarma, Carla Willig, Brian E McGuire
Factors affecting women’s intention to use long acting and permanent contraceptive methods in Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study
Mengistu Meskele, Wubegzier Mekonnen
Development of the Community Midwifery Education initiative and its influence on women’s health and empowerment in Afghanistan: a case study
Elizabeth M Speakman, Ahmad Shafi, Egbert Sondorp, Nooria Atta, Natasha Howard
Hysteropexy in the treatment of uterine prolapse stage 2 or higher: a multicenter randomized controlled non-inferiority trial comparing laparoscopic sacrohysteropexy with vaginal sacrospinous hysteropexy (LAVA-trial, study protocol)
Mèlanie N van IJsselmuiden, Anne-Lotte WM Coolen, Renée J Detollenaere, Jan den Boon, Marlies Bongers, Geerte van de Pol, Astrid Vollebregt, Celine M Radder, Jan Deprest, Hugo WF van Eijndhoven
Awareness, use and associated factors of emergency contraceptive pills among women of reproductive age (15-49 years) in Tamale, Ghana
Anthony Amalba, Victor Mogre, Monica NA Appiah, Winnifred A Mumuni
Effects of interval between age at first pregnancy and age at diagnosis on breast cancer survival according to menopausal status: a register-based study in Korea
JungSun Lee, Minkyung Oh
Sexual assault in Lagos, Nigeria: a five year retrospective review
Fatimat M Akinlusi, Kabiru A Rabiu, Tawa A Olawepo, Adeniyi A Adewunmi, Tawaqualit A Ottun, Oluwarotimi I Akinola
Combined laparoscopy and hysteroscopy vs. uterine curettage in the uterine artery embolization-based management of cesarean scar pregnancy: a retrospective cohort study
Yifeng He, Xin Wu, Qiujing Zhu, Xuezhe Wu, Lingda Feng, Xia Wu, Aimin Zhao, Wen Di
Independent external validation of cardiovascular disease mortality in women utilising Framingham and SCORE risk models: a mortality follow-up study
Louise Gek Huang Goh, Timothy Alexander Welborn, Satvinder Singh Dhaliwal
Integrating HIV testing into cervical cancer screening in Tanzania: an analysis of routine service delivery statistics
Marya Plotkin, Giulia VR Besana, Safina Yuma, Young Mi Kim, Yusuph Kulindwa, Fatma Kabole, Enriquito Lu, Mary Rose Giattas
Reproductive health and burn-out among female physicians: nationwide, representative study from Hungary
Zsuzsa Győrffy, Diána Dweik, Edmond Girasek
Clinical pattern and spectrum of endometrial pathologies in patients with abnormal uterine bleeding in Pakistan: need to adopt a more conservative approach to treatment
Mariam Abid, Atif Ali Hashmi, Babar Malik, Saroona Haroon, Naveen Faridi, Muhammad Muzzammil Edhi, Mehmood Khan
Keeping silent about emergency contraceptives in Addis Ababa: a qualitative study among young people, service providers, and key stakeholders
Rosalijn Both, Fantawork Samuel
Sexual violence in the lives of first-year university women in Canada: no improvements in the 21st century
Charlene Y Senn, Misha Eliasziw, Paula C Barata, Wilfreda E Thurston, Ian R Newby-Clark, H Lorraine Radtke, Karen L Hobden
Musculoskeletal sequelae in patients with obstetric fistula – a case–control study
Merete Kolberg Tennfjord, Mulu Muleta, Torvid Kiserud
HIV risks vary according to type of sex work in a cross-sectional survey from Nagaland, India
Anna BZ O’Halloran, Gregory Armstrong, Gajendra K Medhi, Collins Z Sono, Jagadish Mahanta, Michelle Kermode
Perceptions of postnatal depression and health care needs in a South African sample: the “mental” in maternal health care
Tasneem Kathree, One M Selohilwe, Arvin Bhana, Inge Petersen
Fertility desire among HIV-positive women in Tigray region, Ethiopia: implications for the provision of reproductive health and prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission services
Yohannes Adama Melaku, Ejigu Gebeye Zeleke, John Kinsman, Akberet Kelem Abraha
Men’s knowledge and attitudes about cervical cancer screening in Kenya
Joelle I Rosser, Jennifer M Zakaras, Sabina Hamisi, Megan J Huchko
Determinants of women’s likelihood of vaginal self-sampling for human papillomavirus to screen for cervical cancer in Taiwan: a cross-sectional study
Shu-Ling Chen, Pao-Chun Hsieh, Chia-Hui Chou, Ya-Ling Tzeng
Post-coital posterior fornix perforation with vaginal evisceration
Alex Ernest, Mtui Emmanuel, Knapp Gregory
Normal reference values of strength in pelvic floor muscle of women: a descriptive and inferential study
Francine Chevalier, Carolina Fernandez-Lao, Antonio Ignacio Cuesta-Vargas
Subgrouping of Japanese middle-aged women attending a menopause clinic using physical and psychological symptom profiles: a cross-sectional study
Masakazu Terauchi, Asuka Hirose, Mihoko Akiyoshi, Yoko Owa, Kiyoko Kato, Toshiro Kubota
A qualitative study of the background and in-hospital medicolegal response to female burn injuries in India
Nayreen Daruwalla, Jyoti Belur, Meena Kumar, Vinay Tiwari, Sujata Sarabahi, Nick Tilley, David Osrin
Educating women about congenital cytomegalovirus: assessment of health education materials through a web-based survey
Simani M Price, Erika Bonilla, Paul Zador, Denise M Levis, Christina L Kilgo, Michael J Cannon
Primary health care use from the perspective of gender and morbidity burden
María Teresa Carretero, Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Beatriz Poblador-Plou, Alexandra Prados-Torres
Reproductive health of women with and without disabilities in South India, the SIDE study (South India Disability Evidence) study: a case control study
Gudlavalleti Venkata S Murthy, Neena John, Jayanthi Sagar
Cervical cancer screening program in Thimphu, Bhutan: population coverage and characteristics associated with screening attendance
Iacopo Baussano, Ugyen Tshomo, Gary M Clifford, Vanessa Tenet, Tshokey Tshokey, Silvia Franceschi
Piloting a computer assisted telephone interview: the FUCHSIA Women’s Study
Helen B Chin, Candice Y Johnson, Konny H Kim, Jessica H Knight, Ann C Mertens, Pamela J Mink, Regina M Simeone, Jill J Woodard, Penelope P Howards
5-Year data analysis of patients following abdominal wall endometrioma surgery
Tahere Khamechian, Javad Alizargar, Tahere Mazoochi
Breast cancer risk perceptions of Turkish women attending primary care: a cross-sectional study
Mehtap Kartal, Nilgun Ozcakar, Sehnaz Hatipoglu, Makbule Neslisah Tan, Azize Dilek Guldal
Risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy: a meta-analysis on impact on ovarian cancer risk and all cause mortality in BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 mutation carriers
Claudia Marchetti, Francesca De Felice, Innocenza Palaia, Giorgia Perniola, Angela Musella, Daniela Musio, Ludovico Muzii, Vincenzo Tombolini, Pierluigi Benedetti Panici
Lesbians’ attitudes and practices of cervical cancer screening: a qualitative study
Claire Curmi, Kath Peters, Yenna Salamonson
Relationship satisfaction in lesbian and heterosexual couples before and after assisted reproduction: a longitudinal follow-up study
Catrin Borneskog, Claudia Lampic, Gunilla Sydsjö, Marie Bladh, Agneta Skoog Svanberg
Secular trends in age at menarche among women born between 1955 and 1985 in Southeastern China
Yanyu Lyu, Lucia Mirea, Junmin Yang, Ruth Warre, Jun Zhang, Shoo K Lee, Zhu Li
Does South Korea have hidden female smokers: discrepancies in smoking rates between self-reports and urinary cotinine level
Myung Bae Park, Chun-Bae Kim, Eun Woo Nam, Kyeong Soo Hong
Anal incontinence, urinary incontinence and sexual problems in primiparous women – a comparison between women with episiotomy only and women with episiotomy and obstetric anal sphincter injury
Mona Stedenfeldt, Jouko Pirhonen, Ellen Blix, Tom Wilsgaard, Barthold Vonen, Pål Øian
Role of vascular endothelial growth factor polymorphisms (-2578C > A, -460 T > C, -1154G > A, +405G > C and +936C > T) in endometriosis: a case–control study with Brazilians
Jamila Alessandra Perini, Jessica Vilarinho Cardoso, Plínio Tostes Berardo, Rosane Vianna-Jorge, Luiz Eurico Nasciutti, Marta Bellodi-Privato, Daniel Escorsim Machado, Mauricio Simões Abrão
The increased trend in mothers’ hospital admissions for psychiatric disorders in the first year after birth between 2001 and 2010 in New South Wales, Australia
Fenglian Xu, Elizabeth A Sullivan, Zhuoyang Li, Lucy Burns, Marie-Paule Austin, Tim Slade
Are single mothers’ higher smoking rates mediated by dysfunctional coping styles?
Stefanie Sperlich, Mercy Nyambura Maina
Association between physical activity and menopausal symptoms in perimenopausal women
Min-Ju Kim, Juhee Cho, Younjhin Ahn, Gyeyoon Yim, Hyun-Young Park
Impact of endometriosis on women’s lives: a qualitative study
Maryam Moradi, Melissa Parker, Anne Sneddon, Violeta Lopez, David Ellwood
Contraceptive use and unmet need for family planning among HIV positive women on antiretroviral therapy in Kumasi, Ghana
Dennis Odai Laryea, Yaw Ampem Amoako, Kathryn Spangenberg, Ebenezer Frimpong, Judith Kyei-Ansong
Natural history of ovarian endometrioma in pregnancy
Katie Pateman, Francesca Moro, Dimitrios Mavrelos, Xulin Foo, Wee-Liak Hoo, Davor Jurkovic
Intimate partner violence and physical and mental health among women utilizing community health services in Gujarat, India
Akiko Kamimura, Vikas Ganta, Kyl Myers, Tomi Thomas
Interventions to reduce postpartum stress in first-time mothers: a randomized-controlled trial
Hibah Osman, Matilda Saliba, Monique Chaaya, Georges Naasan
Somali women’s view of physical activity – a focus group study
Gerthi Persson, Amina Jama Mahmud, Eva Ekvall Hansson, Eva Lena Strandberg
A randomised controlled trial of a preconceptional dietary intervention in women undergoing IVF treatment (PREPARE trial)
Alexandra J Kermack, Philip C Calder, Franchesca D Houghton, Keith M Godfrey, Nicholas S Macklon
Prevalence and correlates of intimate partner violence towards female students of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Joseph E Umana, Olufunmilayo I Fawole, Ikeola A Adeoye
Predictors of regular mammography use among American Indian women in Oklahoma: a cross-sectional study
Eleni L Tolma, Julie A Stoner, Ji Li, Yoonsang Kim, Kimberly K Engelman
Should women with chronic pelvic pain have adhesiolysis?
Ying C Cheong, Isobel Reading, Sarah Bailey, Khaled Sadek, William Ledger, Tin C Li
Preventive health care among HIV positive women in a Utah HIV/AIDS clinic: a retrospective cohort study
Sara E Simonsen, Deanna Kepka, Joan Thompson, Echo L Warner, Maggie Snyder, Kristen M Ries
A survey on depression among infertile women in Ghana
Abass Alhassan, Abdul Razak Ziblim, Sirina Muntaka
High coffee consumption and different brewing methods in relation to postmenopausal endometrial cancer risk in the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study: a population-based prospective study
Oxana Gavrilyuk, Tonje Braaten, Guri Skeie, Elisabete Weiderpass, Vanessa Dumeaux, Eiliv Lund
“If you can’t treat HPV, why test for it?” Women’s attitudes to the changing face of cervical cancer prevention: a focus group study
Judith McRae, Cara Martin, John O’Leary, Linda Sharp
HPV vaccination in women aged 27 to 45 years: what do general practitioners think?
Danielle Mazza, Katja Petrovic, Cathy Grech, Naomi Harris
Effect of metformin on serum interleukin-6 levels in polycystic ovary syndrome: a systematic review
Xinghua Xu, Chigang Du, Qingmei Zheng, Lina Peng, Yuanyuan Sun