Gynecological and Obstetric Health Complications Related to Emotional Stress
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Women's Health Care".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2023) | Viewed by 7797
Special Issue Editors
Interests: midwifery; obstetrics; pregnancy complications; mental health disorders in victims of a terrorism; impact of life-threatening mass disasters on the health of expected mother, her fetus, the course of pregnancy & childbirth; intergenerational, epigenetics outcomes of stress in the pregnant woman - fetus-child system; the COVID-19 pandemic adverse mental health outcomes in pregnant women population; implications for clinical practice
Interests: psychiatry; diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders; schizophrenia; depression; bipolar disorder; anxiety disorders; neuroimaging techniques
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The scope of this Special Issue is to highlight present and future challenges in field of gynecological and obstetrics health complications related to emotional stress.
Experience to emotional stress caused by personal relationship disturbances; physical , mental, substance abuse; armed or no armed conflict interactions ; natural disasters; terror; adverse environmental factors; insufficient health education and poor access to health services ; lack of emotional and economic support , all of them, may lead to psychiatric disorders, and often coexists with gynecological and obstetrics health complications , including but not limited to both psychiatric and other somatic comorbidities. It is important to explore the common bio-psycho-social pathomechanisms, to develop guidelines to identify harmful factors on daily basis , in some of causes related to genetic backgrounds, and in turn to develop implications for clinical practice to protect pregnant woman-fetus-child system against risk factors linked to emotional stress and to provide an innovative & effective diagnostic method & treatment.
The present Special Issue will accept original research, short reports, reviews, and opinion papers devoted to the main topic and the keywords.
We are welcome authors to submit papers addressing, among others, such issues as:
- emotional problems related to oncological treatment in gynecology;
- emotional problems linked to surgery treatment in gynecology;
- stress related issues to pregnancy and obstetric outcomes;
- correlation between stress and childbirth progress;
- emotions in complicated pregnancy;
- correlation between emotional state and stillbirth;
- adverse emotional attitude of a pregnant woman to care for a child in early postpartum;
- providing psychological support and treatment to victims of sexual violence;
- stress and complications of pregnancy and childbirth among women addicted to alcohol and drugs;
- the influence of perinatal stress on postpartum lactation and the need for breastfeeding;
- the influence of stress-generating environmental factors on complications after caesarean section;
- the impact of fear and hospital stay on wound healing rate after gynecological and obstetric surgeries;
- emotional and physical abuse in pregnancy and mother’s attachment to offspring in postpartum period;
- effect of stress on the incidence of gynecological diseases;
- lack of economic and emotional support and the incidence of gynecological complications and unwanted pregnancies;
- emotional disorders of pregnant women addicted to drugs and alcohol and complications of pregnancy, childbirth and health complications of the born child;
- possibility of obtaining proper psycho-psychiatric and medical attention in time of terror, natural disaster;
- cases of violence of pregnant women with emotional disorders against medical staff, nurses, midwives;
- difficulties in the care and treatment of patients with gynecological and obstetric complications related to emotional stress;
- protection pregnant woman-fetus-child system against emotional and physical abuse;
- motherhood among women requiring psychiatric treatment;
ways and methods of reducing stress in patients afraid of gynecological and obstetric surgeries in the prevention of complications.
Dr. Dariusz Wojciech Mazurkiewicz
Prof. Dr. Agata Szulc
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- stress
- depression
- coping with stress
- major depressive disorder
- schizophrenia
- anxiety disorders
- pregnancy complications
- mass disaster
- terror
- conflict
- psychiatric disorders
- gynecological and obstetrics health complications
- abuse
- implications for practice
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