2025 December - 15 articles
This systematic review aimed to identify psychosocial risk factors associated with the development of complicated perinatal grief in adult women who experienced pregnancy loss. Following PRISMA guidelines, comprehensive searches were conducted in Web...
Women in vulnerable living situations with schizophrenia face intersecting challenges, including migration-related trauma, caregiving burdens, and systemic barriers such as cultural dislocation, limited healthcare access, and stigma. These factors he...
Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is the most common subtype of female urinary incontinence, affecting up to one in four women and markedly reducing quality of life. Its pathophysiology primarily involves impaired suburethral and paraurethral support...
Endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain (CPP) impose substantial economic burden in New Zealand, yet no national cost-of-illness (COI) model currently exists. This study provides the first nationwide estimate using a modified World-Endometriosis-Resear...
Use of assisted reproductive technology (ART) to bear children has in recent years become widespread in Japan. While midwives are required to understand the experiences of individual women and provide ongoing support for them, implementing respectful...
Positive Body Image (PBI) has been conceptualized as a multidimensional construct encompassing acceptance, functionality appreciation, and self-care, yet little is known about the lived processes through which women move from self-criticism to reconc...
Personalized medicine regarding the biopsychosocial model can extend to females considering fertility choices through online one-on-one interactions. This finding is relevant, as recent publications suggest that online one-on-one interventions might...
Early menarche has been recognized as an early-life marker of metabolic vulnerability, yet its link to gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) remains unclear. We investigated this association in a retrospective case–control study of 71 cases and 3...
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are a major occupational health concern, especially for women in physically demanding jobs. Despite efforts to standardize risk assessment in occupational medicine, the lack of homogeneous criteria limits the comparab...
Breast cancer (BC), despite its high survival rate, can cause significant functional sequelae in the scapulohumeral joint after surgery. This study evaluated angular velocity during a lateral reach test, comparing the operated arm with the non-operat...
This paper assesses the correlates of perceived well-being among young women aged 18 to 30 in five Balkan cities: Athens, Greece; Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Bucharest, Romania; Nis, Serbia; and Shtip, North Macedonia, by integrating urban, travel behavioural...
This study seeks to provide insight into the comprehensive efforts aimed at advancing gender justice, eliminating period poverty, and exposing stigmatizing views toward women’s bodies, specifically in relation to menstrual health. Menstruation...
Despite growing interest in humanized childbirth practices, there is still little qualitative research exploring women’s perspectives on vocalization during labor. The present study aims to analyze women’s experiences with the use of voca...
Cardiovascular disease disproportionately affects women in the United States. CVD outcomes are closely tied to a multitude of factors including lifestyle habits and socioeconomic status which create a complex interweb of determinants of health that p...
Postpartum psychosis (PPP) is a rare but high-risk psychiatric emergency, with an estimated incidence of 1–2 in 1000 births. This study focuses on describing the characteristics of episodes occurring within the first postpartum year, specifical...
