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  1. Despite the early diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer, it is still a significant public health problem in Somalia. This study was conducted to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes of healthcare professi...

    Authors: Şeyma Zehra Altunkurek, Samira Hassan Mohamed, Eda Şahin and Sümeyra Yilmaz
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:228
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  2. Interprofessional collaboration has an important role in health care for breast cancer patients who are undergoing treatment at the hospital. Interprofessional collaboration has been reported to provide signif...

    Authors: Dea Anita Ariani Kurniasih, Elsa Pudji Setiawati, Ivan Surya Pradipta and Anas Subarnas
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:227
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  4. This study aimed to compare the efficacy of albumin-bound paclitaxel combined with carboplatin (Nab-TC) with that of traditional solvent-based paclitaxel combined with carboplatin (TC) as neoadjuvant chemother...

    Authors: Huan Wang, Lingyun Fan, Xia Wu and Yimin Han
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:224
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  5. Pelvic organ prolapse remains a neglected public health problem in developing countries. The burden of pelvic organ prolapse varies by region and ranges from 9 to 20%. It poses an impact on women’s quality of ...

    Authors: Dawit Abebe, Mohammed Abdurke Kure, Enku Afework Demssie, Sinetibeb Mesfin, Melake Demena and Merga Dheresa
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:223
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  6. Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) means providing only breast milk for infants for up to six months without the addition of solid or liquid matter. Even though EBF had great benefits for infants and mothers, the r...

    Authors: Amare Zewdie, Temesgen Taye, Abebaw Wasie Kasahun and Abdu Oumer
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:222
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  7. Postpartum depression (PPD) is the most prevalent mental health disorder after childbirth, notably during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, PPD is known to have a long-term influence on the mother and the ne...

    Authors: Rania Nafi’ Suleiman Alsabi, Alif Firdaus Zaimi, Thanusha Sivalingam, Nurul Nazirah Ishak, Aishah Siddiqah Alimuddin, Rima Aggrena Dasrilsyah, Nurul Iftida Basri and Amilia Afzan Mohd Jamil
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:221
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  8. The consequence of the Great Ethiopian Famine (1983–1985) on mortality had been well documented. However, the long term assaults of the famine on adulthood health, particularly on the risk of hypertension, has...

    Authors: Kalkidan Hassen Abate, Getachew Arage, Habtamu Hassen, Jemal Abafita and Tefera Belachew
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:220
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  9. Endometriosis and adenomyosis are common benign conditions compromising both physical and psychological health, with a negative impact on quality of life. This survey aimed to establish what the users’ perspec...

    Authors: Marianne Omtvedt, Elisabeth Bean, Kirsten Hald, Elisabeth Raasholm Larby, Guri B. Majak and Tina Tellum
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:219
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  10. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the health and well-being of people worldwide, yet few studies have qualitatively examined its cumulative effects on ciswomen living with HIV (WLWH). We aimed to explore how ...

    Authors: Samantha A. Devlin, Amy K. Johnson, Moira C. McNulty, Olivier L. Joseph, André Hall and Jessica P. Ridgway
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:218
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  11. Women living with HIV (WLWH) report low engagement in health care, missed office visits, and less engagement in the clinical encounter. Strengthening the clinical encounter for WLWH may improve health outcomes...

    Authors: Schenita D. Randolph, Ragan Johnson, Kara McGee, Adaora A. Adimora, Catalina Ramirez, Donald E. Bailey Jr., Lauren Holt, Amie Koch, Jacquelyn M. McMillian-Bohler, Tiarney Ritchwood and Michael V. Relf
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:217
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  12. Obesity is increasingly a public health concern in low- and middle-income countries, including Malawi where 36% of women have body mass index in overweight/obese categories in urban areas. Eating behaviors, at...

    Authors: Myness Kasanda Ndambo, Alinane Linda Nyondo-Mipando and Chrissie Thakwalakwa
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:216
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  13. Intimate partner violence (IPV) adversely affects women’s reproductive health outcomes but to what extent women’s justification of IPV affects maternal health care service utilization is unexplored.

    Authors: Som Kumar Shrestha, Subash Thapa, Don Vicendese and Bircan Erbas
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:215
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  14. Despite the high prevalence of mental health issues among young mothers, their subsequent needs for mental health care support does not correlate with their access and use of services. The purpose of this stud...

    Authors: Susan M. Jack, Eric Duku, Heather Whitty, Ryan J. Van Lieshout, Alison Niccols, Katholiki Georgiades and Ellen L. Lipman
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:214
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  15. In recent years, nutrition has received an increasingly important role in the etiology of cancer. Thus, public education about dietary factors associated with cancer risk or prevention could be an important in...

    Authors: Bahareh Sasanfar, Fatemeh Toorang, Sahar Rostami, Maryam Zarif Yeganeh, Maryam Lafzi Ghazi, Monireh Sadat Seyyedsalehi and Kazem Zendehdel
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:213
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  16. Despite being a preventable disease, cervical cancer continues to be a public health concern, affecting mainly lower and middle-income countries. Therefore, in Bogotá a home-visit based program was instituted ...

    Authors: David Barrera Ferro, Steffen Bayer, Sally Brailsford and Honora Smith
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:212
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  17. In 2014, the Thai government launched a free-of-charge long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) program for Thai female adolescents. However, its acceptance had not been reported. Therefore, this study aim...

    Authors: Sathaphone Inthavong, Tawiwan Pantasri, Nuntana Morakote, Tanarat Muangmool, Wirawit Piyamongkol, Saipin Pongsatha and Somsak Chaovisitseree
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:211
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  19. When a worker is abused, threatened, or assaulted while at work, it poses an explicit or implicit threat to his/her safety, well-being, or health. However, the magnitude and understanding of the problem and it...

    Authors: Mulugeta Dile Worke, Habtamu Demelash, Lealem Meseret, Minale Bezie and Fantu Abebe
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:209
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  20. Risk prediction is an essential part of preventative medicine and in recent years genomic information has become an interesting factor in risk models. Polygenic risk scores (PRS) combine the effect of many gen...

    Authors: Agnes Svensson, Koldo Garcia-Etxebarria, Anna Åkesson, Christer Borgfeldt, Bodil Roth, Malin Ek, Mauro D’Amato and Bodil Ohlsson
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:208
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  21. Burden of breast cancer it continues to increase largely because of the aging and growth of the world population and assessment of quality of life is an important outcome measure to facilitate and improved car...

    Authors: Hind Abdulaziz Al-Hoqail, Mohammed T. A. Omar, Maha Mohammed Al-Marwani and Einas Soliman Al-Eisa
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:207
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  22. Though the harmful impacts of child marriage have been evaluated across several domains, evidence on the relationship between child marriage and health behaviors over the life course is limited. In this paper,...

    Authors: Biplab K. Datta, Ashwini Tiwari and Ishtiaque Fazlul
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:206
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  23. In developing nations like India, fertility and mortality have decreased, and diseases related to lifestyle have become more common. Females in India are more prone to being overweight and obese than their mal...

    Authors: Pradeep Kumar, Sherry Mangla and Sampurna Kundu
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:205
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  24. In the Muslim world, the use and acceptance of long-term and permanent contraceptives were limited. Our aim was to investigate those limiting factors so we can help making these methods widely available and ac...

    Authors: Naser Al-Husban, Dalia Kaadan, Jude Foudeh, Tara Ghazi, Yumen Sijari and Maher Maaita
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:204
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  25. In recent years, the prevalence of smoking in women has increased significantly. This study aimed to explain the effective factors in the tendency to smoke in female adolescents, employing a qualitative method...

    Authors: Hadi Tehrani, Mehrsadat Mahdizadeh, Nooshin Peyman, Mahdi Gholian-Aval, Elham Charoghchian Khorasani and Alireza Jafari
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:203
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  26. Female genital mutilation (FGM) is defined as the partial or complete removal of the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons. There are some complications related to childbirth that concern both the ...

    Authors: Deniz Kulaksiz, Ifrah Abdi Nor, Recep Erin, Kubra Baki Erin and Tuncay Toprak
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:202
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  28. Experiencing perimenstrual symptoms is a major health concern for young women. Women in the reproductive age experience menstruation about once a month, and many experience perimenstrual symptoms. Drug therapi...

    Authors: Rami Mizuta, Noriaki Maeda, Makoto Komiya, Yuta Suzuki, Tsubasa Tashiro, Kazuki Kaneda, Shogo Tsutsumi, Honoka Ishihara, Sayo Kuroda and Yukio Urabe
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:200
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  29. Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) affects up to one-fifth of women of reproductive age and causes anovulatory subfertility. Some studies have recommended that an anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) level greater tha...

    Authors: Muhammad Salman Butt, Javeria Saleem, Sobia Aiman, Rubeena Zakar, Iftikhar Sadique and Florian Fischer
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:199
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  30. Breast cancer may impair health-related quality of life (HRQoL). We examined the mediating roles of perceived social support (PSS) and coping style (CS) in the relationship between resilience and HRQoL in newl...

    Authors: Kaina Zhou, Fan Ning, Xiao Wang, Wen Wang, Dongfang Han and Xiaomei Li
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:198
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  31. Approximately 80% of deaths due to cervical cancer occur in low- and middle-income countries. In Guatemala, limited access to effective screening and treatment has resulted in alarmingly high cervical cancer i...

    Authors: Kristin G. Bevilacqua, Anna Gottschlich, Audrey R. Murchland, Christian S. Alvarez, Alvaro Rivera-Andrade and Rafael Meza
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:197
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  32. Spanish Organic Law 2/2010 legalizes abortion within 14 weeks of gestation. Medical abortion with mifepristone and misoprostol is around 97% effective and is offered at primary care centers during the first 9 ...

    Authors: Rosa Cabedo-Ferreiro, Maria-Mercedes Vicente-Hernández, Josep-Maria Manresa-Domínguez, Miriam Gómez-Masvidal, Laura Montero-Pons, Azahara Reyes-Lacalle and Gemma Falguera-Puig
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:196
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  33. Delays in screening and timely diagnosis contribute significantly to global disparities in cervical cancer mortality in Botswana and other low- and middle-income countries, particularly those with high rates o...

    Authors: Katharine A. Rendle, Doreen Ramogola-Masire, Barati Monare, Shannon N. Ogden, Hannah K. Toneff, Chelsea A. Saia, Jocelyn V. Wainwright, Tara M. Friebel-Klingner, Lisa Bazzett-Matabele, Rohini Bhatia, Natalie Bonner, Tlotlo B. Ralefala, Peter Vuylsteke, Rebecca Luckett and Surbhi Grover
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:195
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  34. The evaluation of breast density is important, because dense breast has been shown to be associated with increased risk of breast cancer and a greater risk of a false-negative diagnostic performance due to mas...

    Authors: Tomohiro Ochi, Hiroko Tsunoda, Hideko Yamauchi and Osamu Takahashi
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:194
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  35. In the Middle East region, the incidence of breast cancer (BC) has substantially increased in the last years. Despite a considerable body of research about BC in Arab countries, how illness perceptions of heal...

    Authors: Maria J. Figueiras, David Dias Neto and João Marôco
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:193
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  38. We aimed to evaluate the hysteroscopic management of first-trimester pregnancy loss compared to surgical evacuation either blind or under ultrasonographic guidance‎.

    Authors: Hadeer Meshaal, Emad Salah, Eman Fawzy, Mazen Abdel-Rasheed, Ahmed Maged and Hany Saad
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:190
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  39. Pregnancy is a time when women are making many changes, including the patterns of alcohol consumption. Alcohol consumption during pregnancy encourages the risks of mothers and unborn child. Alcohol use during ...

    Authors: Getaneh Bizuayehu Demeke and Eyayu Kasseye Bayu
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:189
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  41. Gender-based violence is an act that has physical, psychological, and sexual consequences for women. It is a widespread issue, particularly in developing countries, and it causes women mental distress. Despite...

    Authors: Jerusalem Sewalem and Alemayehu Molla
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:187
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  42. Sleep quality is an important physical requirement for a healthy life, and good sleep quality has been recognized as a significant component in physical and mental health and well-being. The purpose of this st...

    Authors: Myung Kyung Lee and Jihyun Oh
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:186
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  45. Breast cancer is the greatest common cancer in women worldwide, with approximately 1.7 million new cases diagnosed each year in the world which accounts for 12% of all new cancer cases and 25% of all cancers i...

    Authors: Gashaw Mehiret, Amsalu Molla and Aragaw Tesfaw
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:183
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  47. Family planning is a low-cost, high-impact public health and development strategy to improve child and maternal health. However, there is a lack of evidence on modern contraceptive use and determinants in sub-...

    Authors: Zemenu Tadesse Tesema, Getayeneh Antehunegn Tesema, Moges Muluneh Boke and Temesgen Yihunie Akalu
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:181
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  48. Prior cross-sectional research suggests that both men’s and women’s attitudes towards intimate partner violence (IPV) are predictive of women’s IPV experience, although this can vary greatly by context. In gen...

    Authors: Holly Baker Shakya, Beniamino Cislaghi, Paul Fleming, Ruti G. Levtov, Sabrina C. Boyce, Anita Raj and Jay G. Silverman
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:180
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  49. Breast cancer has become a public health concern in Indonesia. Regular breast self-examination (BSE) is considered an important first step for its early detection, especially in countries with limited healthca...

    Authors: Triana Kesuma Dewi, Robert A. C. Ruiter, Merle Diering, Rahkman Ardi and Karlijn Massar
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:179
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  50. Menstrual migraine is a particular form of migraine with a significant impact on the quality of life for women afflicted. Presently, no study has reported the quality of life in menstrual migraine patients. Th...

    Authors: Wenxiu Luo, Xing Cao, Jiayu Zhao, Jiaming Yang, Yu Cen, Jinlong He, Jing Luo, Yunling Zhong, Ying Luo, Xinyue Wang, Liqiu Yang, Xingyu Feng, Xiaoqing Pang, Jiazhu Zhang and Jiaming Luo
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:177
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