Recently added articles from Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology:
Mirror gametes donation
Dec 01, 2007; Pennings, Guido ... Abstract Candidate recipients of donor gametes have a moral obligation to make a contribution to the system from which they benefit by reciprocating. They can do this as a couple when the partner of the person who has no usable gametes donates and receives the mirror gametes in return ....
Perinatal death and fathers
Dec 01, 2007; Badenhorst, William; Riches, Samantha; Turton, Penelope; Hughes, Patricia ... Following our review on the effects of perinatal death on fathers [1], a paper not identified by our keyword search strategy was brought to our attention. Peter Barr [2] investigated 158 parents identified from hospital records at one month and 13 months following stillbirth or neonatal death ...
Depression scores and associated factors in pregnant and non-pregnant women: A community-based study in Turkey
Dec 01, 2007; Caliskan, Deniz; Oncu, Bedriye; Kose, Kenan; Ocaktan, Mine Esin; Ozdemir, Oya ... Abstract The aims of this study were to evaluate and compare the depression scores of pregnant and non-pregnant women, and to identify the factors associated with depression scores in the two groups. This community-based study was conducted in a primary health care center catchment area ...
Remembering the pain: Accuracy of pain recall in endometriosis
Dec 01, 2007; Nunnink, Sarah; Meana, Marta ... Abstract Endometriosis diagnosis and treatment planning are guided primarily by retrospective pain recall, despite the facts that (1) there is only a tenuous relationship between pain reports and physical pathology, and (2) the accuracy of pain recall has never been assessed in this ...
Service use data analysis of pre-pregnancy psychiatric and somatic diagnoses in women with hyperemesis gravidarum
Dec 01, 2007; Seng, Julia S; Schrot, Jacquelyn A; Van De Ven, Cosmas; Liberzon, Israel ... Abstract Introduction. The purpose of this study was to redress weaknesses in past studies of a psychogenic etiology for hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) by (1) estimating from a known population what proportion of HG cases also have psychiatric diagnoses, (2) determining if psychiatric ...
The Hyperemesis Beliefs Scale (HBS): a new instrument for assessing beliefs about severe nausea and vomiting in pregnancy
Dec 01, 2007; Munch, Shari; Schmitz, Mark F ... Abstract Objective. The purpose of this research was to validate the Hyperemesis Beliefs Scale (HBS), a new instrument for assessing patient perception factors of hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) that influence reported patient satisfaction with medical care. Methods. Patients' ...
Midwives' experiences of encountering women seeking an abortion
Dec 01, 2007; Lindström, Meta; Jacobsson, Lars; Wulff, Marianne; Lalos, Ann ... Abstract In order to gain knowledge about midwives' clinical and emotional experiences of working with termination of pregnancy (TOP) and their perception of women's motives for having an abortion questionnaires were mailed to a representative sample of Swedish midwives (n = 258), and ...
Fear of childbirth and obstetrical events as predictors of postnatal symptoms of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder
Dec 01, 2007; Fairbrother, Nichole; Woody, Sheila R ... Abstract This prospective study examined psychological and obstetrical predictors of enduring postpartum symptoms of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Contrary to prediction, prenatal fear of childbirth did not significantly predict symptoms of depression or post-traumatic ...
Women's psychological health according to their maternal status: a study in France
Dec 01, 2007; Saurel-Cubizolles, Marie-Josèphe; Romito, Patrizia; Lelong, Nathalie ... Abstract This study explored the extent to which the psychological distress of women is related to their motherhood status. A representative sample of 6970 women, aged 20-59, living in France, was interviewed. This analysis was restricted to the 2799 women aged between 25 and 39, 307 of ...
The Cervix
Dec 01, 2007; Keizer, Marjan ... The Cervix Joseph A. Jordan and Albert Singer (Editors) Howard W. Jones III and Mahmood I. Shafi (Associate editors) Blackwell Science, Oxford, 2nd edition, November 2006 ISBN: 978-1-4051-3137-7, 680 pp. Hardback 30 years after the first edition of The Cervix, a long awaited second ...
Greetings
Dec 01, 2007; Tamada, Taro; Honjo, Hideo ... The Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology (JSPOG) was formally inaugurated in 1996, succeeding a study group for Obstetric and Gynecologic Psychosomatic Medicine in Japan which began it's activity as early as the 1970s and some of whose members used to participate regularly ...
The Female Psychosomatic in East and West
Dec 01, 2007; Honjo, Hideo ... IL Hideo Honjo Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science Fundamental differences between female psychosomatics in the East and the West were introduced. The basic food in the East has been rice. The people has lived together thinking ...
Psychosocial and Psychosomatic Research - Multidisciplinary Approaches
Dec 01, 2007; Alder, Elizabeth M ... SL1 Elizabeth M. Alder School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Care, Napier University The biopsycho social model of health incorporates both psychosocial and psychosomatic approaches. The scope of the International Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology will ...
"Amae" (Dependence upon Another's Benevolence); It's Impact on Women's Wellness in Japan
Dec 01, 2007; Tamada, Taro ... SL2 Taro Tamada Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology In order to introduce to guests from abroad the characteristics - social, cultural, behavioral and spiritual - which are presumed to be unique to the Japanese, I select a word "Amae". Amae means ...
Women Claiming "Petit-Depressive Mood"-Modern Society and Mental Health in Japan
Dec 01, 2007; Kayama, Rika ... SL3 Rika Kayama Tezukayama Gakuin University Recently women's advance in society has progressed greatly in Japan. However, on the other hand, the stress level has increased drastically among working women. Thus increasing in conspicuous numbers of the cases in depressive ...
Mother-Infant Figures in Japan - Illusion and Disillusionment
Dec 01, 2007; Kitayama, Osamu ... SL4 Osamu Kitayama Kyushu University UKIYOE is a woodblock art developed in Japan about 200-100 years ago. I have so far investigated nearly 15,000 copies of Ukiyo-e and found 370 pictures of a couple of a mother and a child. Through classifying these pictures, I realized ...
Climacteric Symptoms: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
Dec 01, 2007; Dennerstein, Lorraine; Lehert, Philippe; Koochaki, Pat; Graziottin, Alessandra; Leiblum, Sandra; Alexander, Jeanne Leventhal ... SL5 Lorraine Dennerstein1, Philippe Lehert2, Pat Koochaki3, Alessandra Graziottin4, Sandra Leiblum5 and Jeanne Leventhal Alexander6 1 The University of Melbourne; 2 Statistics Department, Faculty of Economics, FUCAM, Louvain Academy, Belgium; 3 Procter and Gamble Pharmaceuticals, ...
Japanese Bio-Physio-Social Medicine as a Force for the Integration of Western and Eastern Medicine
Dec 01, 2007; Nakai, Yoshihide ... SL6 Yoshihide Nakai Department of Psychosomatic Internal Medicine-Kansai Medical University Japan has been a country where the western and the oriental cultures meet. The author strongly ...
Present State and Development of the Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology in West
Dec 01, 2007; Pawson, Michael ... SL7 Michael Pawson Chelsea Westminster Hospital, London I look briefly at the pre and post Cartesian models, regretting the increasing concentration of medicine on the body and the dualism of the doctor/patient relationship. I define my concept of psychosomatic medicine ....
Female Depression
Dec 01, 2007; Kamijima, Kunitoshi ... SL8 Kunitoshi Kamijima International University of Health and Welfare The male-female differences in rate of depression are frequently found in epidemiologic studies of depression. Women preponderate in the rates of depression. There are many reasons to explain the ...
