Essays on Partum

Age: 34 Yrs

LMP: October 28, 2015 EDC: August 10, 2016 Gestation: 40 weeks Obstetric History: Elena is a 34-year-old female who presents to the maternity clinic with labor pains. The client is a G3 P3 T3 A0 L2. The previous children were delivered by normal vaginal birth. She had a pre-pregnant weight of 137 lbs and a current weight of 176 lbs.

First Stage of Labour

The patient reports that contractions started seven hours ago at home. The contractions are regular occurring after approximately five minutes with a duration of 45 to 60 seconds. The cervical dilation is at 6cm. After two hours, the contractions ...

(Author Name) (Course Name/Number) The application of best treatment practices is essentially the staple of the social service profession and it is through evidence-based research that social scientists continue to improve the quality of treatment for underserved populations. As individuals and societies present with new and worsening problems, the study of cause-effect and possible solutions becomes an even more interdisciplinary study, involving not only the involvement of research in a theoretical framework, but also dependent largely on the data collected by social work professionals who utilize these theories in application on a daily basis. Because psychology and sociology are ...

Increasing Access and Use of Local Certified Farmers’ Markets:

Abstract The Supplemental Nutrition Program Women, Infants, and Children provides healthy foods, nutritional education and certain referral services to low-income pregnant and post-partum women, infants, and children up to age five. Groundbreaking modifications in 2009 added cash vouchers for fruits and vegetables to WIC’s approved foods list. While these vouchers are redeemable at local Certified Farmers’ Markets, research in California exposed specific barriers to WIC participants utilizing this option. Our proposal addresses the three main deterrents to redeeming vouchers at local farmers’ markets, including: (1) lack of transportation, CFM in close proximity or knowledge of CFM location, (2) ...

Article Critique: Postpartum depression in mothers

FULL REFERENCE: Kozhimannil, K. B., Trinacty, C. M., Busch, A. B., Huskamp, H. A., & Adams, A. S. (2011). Racial and ethnic disparities in postpartum depression care among low-income women. Psychiatric Services.

RESEARCH QUESTION:

Are there are racial or ethnic differences and disparities in the prevalence of postpartum depression among African American, Hispanic, Native American, and White women?

RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS:

In the context that there exist significant knowledge and evidence gaps on other ethnic and racial groups in regard to the prevalence of post-partum depression, there is a high correlation between postpartum depression in low income African American women as compared to their White ...

Giving birth to a baby can be an eventful and an emotional journey in the life of a woman. She will be going through emotions like extreme excitement, joy, fear and anxiety. In some cases, the condition maybe even worse than these and may result in a more complex condition. The pregnant woman can get into a stage of depression following the birth of a child. A good number of women across the world have shown the tendency to develop minor depressive symptoms following the birth of a child. These include symptoms like mood swings, involuntary crying and difficulty ...

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO), 2010 noted that recent research has identified several psychosocial and biologic risk factors for postpartum depression (PPD). Early recognition is one of the major challenges with this overwhelming mood disorder. The main focus of this project is to provide easy access to educational materials to aid in the screening, assessment, and treatment of women who experience depression during pregnancy or the postpartum period. PPD was amended by The American Psychiatric Association, in the 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), to peripartum depression and specifies that the onset of mood disturbance can ...

Depression is a common disease which causes the patient to suffer from behaviors and thoughts which are negative and also by certain changes in bodily activities. These physical changes are called neurovegetative signs like body aches, crying spells, low libido, insomnia and weight fluctuations. There are different kinds of depressive disorders like manic depression, clinical depression, dysthymic disorder, postpartum depression, chronic depression and others. There are no specific causes of depression, it is caused by a combination of factors which are psychological, biochemical, genetic and environmental (Lunbeck Institute 2). It is therefore a complex disorder which has no specific treatment which is ...