Prenatal Care

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2009 H1N1 and seasonal influenza immunization among pregnant women: a comparison of different sources of immunization information. 
  • A Brief Prenatal Intervention of Behavioral Change to Reduce the Risk of Maternal Cytomegalovirus: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • A counseling intervention to address HIV stigma at entry into antenatal care in Tanzania (Maisha): study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial. 
  • A critical review of smoking, cessation, relapse and emerging research in pregnancy and post-partum. 
  • A randomized comparison of home uterine activity monitoring in the outpatient management of women treated for preterm labor. 
  • A retrospective review of performance and utility of routine clinical pelvimetry. 
  • A risk score to identify HIV-infected women most likely to become lost to follow-up in the postpartum period. 
  • A successful pregnancy outcome following the Ross procedure: a case report. 
  • Acceptance of HIV testing during prenatal care. Perinatal Guidelines Evaluation Project. 
  • Accountable Care Reforms Improve Women's And Children's Health In Nepal. 
  • Administrative characteristics of comprehensive prenatal case management programs. 
  • Alcohol consumption among pregnant women in Northern Tanzania 2000-2010: a registry-based study. 
  • An overview of advances in global maternal health: From broad to specific improvements. 
  • Analyzing strategies for developing a prenatal health care outreach program to reduce social and cultural barriers. 
  • Antenatal magnesium sulphate may prevent cerebral palsy in preterm infants--but are we convinced? Evaluation of an apparently conclusive meta-analysis with trial sequential analysis. 
  • Antenatal receipt of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine does not exacerbate pregnancy-associated malaria despite the expansion of drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum: clinical outcomes from the QuEERPAM study. 
  • Antepartum or postpartum isoniazid treatment of latent tuberculosis infection. 
  • Anticoagulation. 
  • Antidepressants in pregnancy: a review of commonly prescribed medications. 
  • Association of Prenatal Care Expansion With Use of Antidiabetic Agents During Pregnancies Among Latina Emergency Medicaid Recipients With Gestational Diabetes. 
  • Association of antenatal corticosteroids with mortality and neurodevelopmental outcomes among infants born at 22 to 25 weeks' gestation. 
  • Associations Among Food Security, Diet Quality, and Dietary Intake During Pregnancy in a Predominantly African American Group of Women from North Carolina. 
  • Bargaining power within couples and use of prenatal and delivery care in Indonesia. 
  • Behavioral influences on preterm birth: integrated analysis of the pregnancy, infection, and nutrition study. 
  • Beyond the Window: Patient Characteristics and Geographic Locations Associated with Late Prenatal Care in Women Eligible for 17-P Preterm Birth Prevention. 
  • Blood Products in the Management of Abnormal Placentation. 
  • Breastfeeding counseling by health care providers. 
  • Breastfeeding experiences and perspectives on support among Chinese mothers separated from their hospitalized preterm infants: a qualitative study. 
  • Buprenorphine compared with methadone to treat pregnant women with opioid use disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis of safety in the mother, fetus and child. 
  • Canadian stroke best practice consensus statement: Secondary stroke prevention during pregnancy. 
  • Cervical dilation as a predictor of pregnancy outcome following emergency cerclage. 
  • Cesarean section deliveries among adolescent mothers enrolled in a comprehensive prenatal care program. 
  • Challenges and solutions for recruiting pregnant smokers into a nicotine replacement therapy trial. 
  • Changes in mortality and morbidities among infants born at less than 25 weeks during the post-surfactant era. 
  • Combined deficiency of factors II, VII, IX, and X (Borgschulte-Grigsby deficiency) in pregnancy. 
  • Commentary on 'How often are late preterm births the result of non-evidence based practices: analysis from a retrospective cohort study at two tertiary referral centres in a nationalised healthcare system'. 
  • Contingency Management Versus Psychotherapy for Prenatal Smoking Cessation: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. 
  • Correlates of intake of folic acid-containing supplements among pregnant women. 
  • Correlates of physical activity at two time points during pregnancy. 
  • Cost averted by providing comprehensive prenatal care to teenagers. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of Antenatal Corticosteroid Therapy vs No Therapy in Women at Risk of Late Preterm Delivery: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Delaying cholecystectomy for complicated gallstone disease in pregnancy is associated with recurrent postpartum symptoms. 
  • Dental attendance among low-income women and their children following a brief motivational counseling intervention: A community randomized trial. 
  • Depressive symptoms and indicators of maternal health status during pregnancy. 
  • Developmental Outcomes of Extremely Preterm Infants with a Need for Child Protective Services Supervision. 
  • Diagnosis and Management of Congenital Uterine Anomalies in Pregnancy. 
  • Differential risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy among Hispanic women. 
  • Disparities in the use of antenatal corticosteroids among women with hypertension in North Carolina. 
  • Doula Care: A Review of Outcomes and Impact on Birth Experience. 
  • Early-life prevention of non-communicable diseases. 
  • Effectiveness of a city-wide program to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in Lusaka, Zambia. 
  • Effects of pre-pregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain on infant anthropometric outcomes. 
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy in Pregnancy: Safety, Best Practices, and Barriers to Care. 
  • Engaging expectant parents to receive Tdap vaccination. 
  • Evaluation and Management of Maternal Congenital Heart Disease: A Review. 
  • Evaluation of Content on Commonly Used Web sites About Induction of Labor and Pain Management During Labor. 
  • Expanding Prenatal Care to Unauthorized Immigrant Women and the Effects on Infant Health. 
  • Extending Delivery Coverage to Include Prenatal Care for Low-Income, Immigrant Women Is a Cost-Effective Strategy. 
  • Factors Associated with Utilization of 17-Hydroxyprogesterone Caproate for the Prevention of Recurrent Preterm Birth. 
  • Factors Impacting Perceived Access to Early Prenatal Care among Pregnant Veterans Enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs. 
  • Factors associated with lack of viral suppression at delivery among highly active antiretroviral therapy-naive women with HIV: a cohort study. 
  • Factors associated with prenatal folic acid and iron supplementation among 21,889 pregnant women in Northern Tanzania: a cross-sectional hospital-based study. 
  • Factors that prompted families to file medical malpractice claims following perinatal injuries 
  • Female sex workers' experiences with intended pregnancy and antenatal care services in southern Tanzania. 
  • Fetal echocardiography and fetal cardiology: indications, diagnosis and management. 
  • Folic acid supplementation before and during pregnancy in the Newborn Epigenetics STudy (NEST). 
  • From concept to application: the impact of a community-wide intervention to improve the delivery of preventive services to children. 
  • Geographic clustering of elevated blood heavy metal levels in pregnant women. 
  • Global, regional, and national levels of maternal mortality, 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. 
  • Glucocorticoid administration alters nuclear transcription factors in fetal rat brain: implications for the use of antenatal steroids. 
  • HIV Stigmatizing Attitudes Among Men Accompanying Their Partners to Antenatal Care in Tanzania: A Mixed-Method Study. 
  • HIV and pregnancy: considerations for nursing practice. 
  • HIV-1 infected women and prenatal care utilization: barriers and facilitators. 
  • Health resource utilization of labor induction versus expectant management. 
  • Health seeking behavior among pregnant women in rural Haiti. 
  • Heightened immigration enforcement impacts US citizens' birth outcomes: Evidence from early ICE interventions in North Carolina. 
  • Hepatitis C Virus Antibody Screening in a Cohort of Pregnant Women: Identifying Seroprevalence and Risk Factors. 
  • Hepatitis C in pregnancy. 
  • Hepatitis C in pregnancy: screening, treatment, and management. 
  • High-deductible health plans and costs and utilization of maternity care. 
  • How do North Carolina prenatal care providers counsel and test pregnant women for HIV? Survey measures knowledge of HIV testing benefits. 
  • Impact of financial and educational interventions on maternity care: results of cluster randomized trials in rural China, CHIMACA. 
  • Increased Rwandan Access to Obstetrician-Gynecologists Through a U.S.-Rwanda Academic Training Partnership. 
  • Increasing Discussions of Intimate Partner Violence in Prenatal Care Using Video Doctor Plus Provider Cueing: A Randomized, Controlled Trial 
  • Increasing obstetrical care access to the rural poor. 
  • Infant Mortality Lessons Learned from a Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Program. 
  • Infant birth weight among women with or at high risk for HIV infection: the impact of clinical, behavioral, psychosocial, and demographic factors. 
  • Infection-related stillbirth: an update on current knowledge and strategies for prevention. 
  • Infectious diseases in pregnancy. 
  • Intensity of case managers' participation in organizational decision making. 
  • Intimate partner and nonpartner violence against pregnant women in rural Haiti. 
  • Intimate partner physical assault before and during pregnancy: how does it relate to women's psychological vulnerability? 
  • Intrapartum and Postpartum Management of Intra-amniotic Infection. 
  • Late-onset bloodstream infections in hospitalized term infants. 
  • Life satisfaction and preterm birth among urban black women: findings from the Baltimore preterm birth study. 
  • Magnesium sulfate for neuroprotection in the setting of chorioamnionitis. 
  • Male engagement guidelines in antenatal care: unintended consequences for pregnant women in Tanzania. 
  • Managed care does not lower costs but may result in poorer outcomes for patients with gestational diabetes. 
  • Management Considerations for Recalcitrant Hyperemesis. 
  • Management of Pregnancy and Survival of Infants with Trisomy 13 or Trisomy 18. 
  • Management of fetal cardiac arrhythmias. 
  • Mapping a Syndemic of Psychosocial Risks During Pregnancy Using Network Analysis. 
  • Maternal and child nutritional supplementation are inversely associated with fasting plasma glucose concentration in young Guatemalan adults. 
  • Maternal and neonatal outcomes of grand multiparas over two decades in Mali. 
  • Maternal health prior to pregnancy and preterm birth among urban, low income black women in Baltimore: the Baltimore Preterm Birth Study. 
  • Maternal prenatal depressive symptoms, nicotine addiction, and smoking-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. 
  • Maternal super obesity and risk for intensive care unit admission in the MFMU Cesarean Registry. 
  • Medicaid managed care partnerships to improve perinatal outcomes. 
  • Minimizing the Risk of Perinatal Human Immunodeficiency Virus Transmission. 
  • Modelling the incremental benefit of introducing malaria screening strategies to antenatal care in Africa. 
  • My Obstetrician Got Me Fired: How Work Notes Can Harm Pregnant Patients and What to Do About It. 
  • Neighborhood deprivation and adverse birth outcomes among diverse ethnic groups. 
  • Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia: A Concise Review. 
  • Obstetric Care Consensus #11, Pregnancy at age 35 years or older. 
  • Obstetric practice patterns in pregnancies complicated by fetal trisomy 13 or 18. 
  • Obstetric risk assessment. 
  • One state's response to the malpractice insurance crisis: North Carolina's Rural Obstetrical Care Incentive Program. 
  • Oral cleft prevention program (OCPP). 
  • Oregon's Expansion of Prenatal Care Improved Utilization Among Immigrant Women. 
  • Overuse of antenatal care amongst low-risk patients in France: Study underscores the need for an evidence-based standard for adequate antenatal care. 
  • Patient-provider communication about gestational weight gain among nulliparous women: a qualitative study of the views of obstetricians and first-time pregnant women. 
  • Peripartum Maternal Hepatitis B Care in a US Nationwide Data Set. 
  • Peripheral pulmonary artery stenosis in pregnancy. A report of two cases. 
  • Personality Traits and Performance Contracts: Evidence from a Field Experiment among Maternity Care Providers in India 
  • Pharmacologic Treatment of Diabetes in Pregnancy. 
  • Physical activity patterns during pregnancy through postpartum. 
  • Pilot Outcomes of Maisha: An HIV Stigma Reduction Intervention Developed for Antenatal Care in Tanzania. 
  • Poverty as context for the parenting experience of low-income Lumbee Indian mothers with a medically fragile infant. 
  • Pregnancy Management After Bariatric Surgery. 
  • Pregnancy at Age 35 Years or Older: ACOG Obstetric Care Consensus No. 11. 
  • Pregnancy in Women With Lupus: We Have Come So Far and Have So Far to Go. 
  • Prenatal Breastfeeding Education: Impact on Infants With Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. 
  • Prenatal Care For Pregnant Immigrants. 
  • Prenatal Contraceptive Counseling by Video. 
  • Prenatal Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of Fetal Cardiac Disease. 
  • Prenatal and postpartum smoking abstinence a partner-assisted approach. 
  • Prenatal choline supplementation attenuates neuropathological response to status epilepticus in the adult rat hippocampus. 
  • Prenatal dopamine and neonatal behavior and biochemistry. 
  • Prenatal protease inhibitor use and risk of preterm birth among HIV-infected women initiating antiretroviral drugs during pregnancy. 
  • Prenatal serotonin and neonatal outcome: brief report. 
  • Prenatal smoking cessation counseling by Texas obstetricians. 
  • Prevalence and factors associated with antenatal depressive symptoms among women enrolled in Option B+ antenatal HIV care in Malawi: a cross-sectional analysis. 
  • Prevalence and incidence of probable perinatal depression among women enrolled in Option B+ antenatal HIV care in Malawi. 
  • Prevalence and predictors of depression among women attending antenatal care in Moshi, Tanzania: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Prevention and management of venous thromboembolism in pregnancy. 
  • Principles of Anti-infective Dosing in Pregnancy. 
  • Probability samples of area births versus clinic populations for reproductive epidemiology studies. 
  • Proceedings of the 13th International Newborn Brain Conference: Fetal and/or neonatal brain development, both normal and abnormal. 
  • Providers' Familiarity with Guidelines for Weight Gain During Pregnancy Impacts Counseling and Compliance in Obese Women. 
  • Psychosocial and behavioral correlates of depression among HIV-infected pregnant women. 
  • Putting the "M" back in maternal-fetal medicine. 
  • Quantifying the impact of accessibility on preventive healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa using mobile phone data. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Cesarean Birth and Maternal Morbidity in a Low-Risk, Nulliparous Cohort. 
  • Racial/Ethnic Disparities Among Extremely Preterm Infants in the United States From 2002 to 2016. 
  • Randomized controlled trial of a paraprofessional-delivered in-home intervention for young reservation-based American Indian mothers. 
  • Reduction of Peripartum Racial and Ethnic Disparities: A Conceptual Framework and Maternal Safety Consensus Bundle. 
  • Risk assessment. 
  • Second trimester folate status and preterm birth. 
  • Seeking natural capital projects: Forest fires, haze, and early-life exposure in Indonesia. 
  • Self-reported zidovudine adherence among pregnant women with human immunodeficiency virus infection in four US states. 
  • Spatial autocorrelation in uptake of antenatal care and relationship to individual, household and village-level factors: results from a community-based survey of pregnant women in six districts in western Kenya. 
  • Specialized prenatal care delivery for coronavirus disease 2019-exposed or -infected pregnant women. 
  • Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Inheritance, Screening, and Counseling for the Obstetric Provider. 
  • Spiritual needs of couples facing pregnancy termination because of fetal anomalies. 
  • Statewide assessment of a behavioral intervention to reduce cigarette smoking by pregnant women. 
  • Telehealth in Maternity Care. 
  • The Disclosure Dilemma: Willingness to Disclose a Positive HIV Status Among Individuals Preparing for HIV Testing During Antenatal Care in Tanzania. 
  • The Effect of WIC on the Health of Newborns 
  • The Effects of Antenatal Depression and Women's Perception of Having Poor Health on Maternal Health Service Utilization in Northern Ghana. 
  • The cardiovascular complications of pregnancy. 
  • The clinical content of preconception care: women with chronic medical conditions. 
  • The development of Maisha, a video-assisted counseling intervention to address HIV stigma at entry into antenatal care in Tanzania. 
  • The effect of pregnancy on adolescent growth and development. 
  • The financing and organization of health services in poor rural China: a case study in Donglan County. 
  • The impact of prenatal education on behavioral changes toward breast feeding and smoking cessation in a healthy start population. 
  • The impact of the Women, Infants and Children Food Supplement Program on birth outcome. 
  • The peripartum management of a patient with glutaric aciduria type 1. 
  • The role of informational support from women's social networks on antenatal care initiation: qualitative evidence from pregnant women in Uganda. 
  • The tendency to IUGR in preterm infants born to young women enrolled in a comprehensive prenatal program. 
  • The use of pharmacotherapies for smoking cessation during pregnancy. 
  • Third-Trimester Prenatal Syphilis Screening: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. 
  • Threatened miscarriage and depressive and anxiety symptoms among women and partners in early pregnancy. 
  • Thromboembolism in pregnancy: recurrence and its prevention. 
  • Thrombosis, thrombophilia, and thromboprophylaxis in pregnancy. 
  • Time trends in management of HIV-positive pregnant women in Northern Tanzania: A registry-based study. 
  • Traditional Beliefs and Learning about Maternal Risk in Zambia. 
  • Transient hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in the newborn following multiple doses of antenatal corticosteroids. 
  • Unintended pregnancy and prenatal behaviors among urban, black women in Baltimore, Maryland: the Baltimore preterm birth study. 
  • Unintended pregnancy and preterm birth. 
  • Uptake of a Guideline for the Administration of a Rescue Course of Antenatal Corticosteroids. 
  • Utilisation, contents and costs of prenatal care under a rural health insurance (New Co-operative Medical System) in rural China: lessons from implementation. 
  • Vulnerable at Each Step in the PMTCT Care Cascade: High Loss to Follow Up During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period in Tanzania. 
  • Welfare reform and Latinas' use of perinatal health care. 
  • What are the required components of pre- and post-test counseling? 
  • What's New in Prenatal Genetics? A Review of Current Recommendations and Guidelines. 
  • Why WIC (Women, Infants and Children Food Supplement Program)? 
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  Keywords of People

  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Blazar, Melinda Frances, Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Physician Assistant Program
  • Streilein, Annamarie Faust, Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Physician Assistant Program