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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  7. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. 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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  12. The levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine device (IUD)—also known as the hormonal IUD—is a highly effective contraceptive method that has not been widely available in the public sector in Zambia. Early introdu...

    Authors: Aurélie Brunie, Megan Lydon, Kayla Stankevitz, Namwinga Chintu, Claire Brennan, Kendal Danna and Kate H. Rademacher
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:178
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  13. 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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  14. Unmet need for family planning (FP) is a core concept in designing FP programmes and reduction of unmet need for FP can improve reproductive and maternal health services. Bangladesh is still away from achievin...

    Authors: Zillur Rahman Shabuz, M. Ershadul Haque, Md. Kawsarul Islam and Wasimul Bari
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:176
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  15. Uterine sarcoma (US) is a rare malignant uterine tumor with aggressive behavior and rapid progression. The purpose of this study was to constructa comprehensive nomogram to predict cancer-specific survival (CS...

    Authors: Yuan-jie Li, Jun Lyu, Chen Li, Hai-rong He, Jin-feng Wang, Yue-ling Wang, Jing Fang and Jing Ji
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:175
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  16. Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women, particularly in low and middle-income countries. Breast self-examination is one of the non-invasive methods of screening in which a woman looks at h...

    Authors: Kibret Asmare, Yeneabat Birhanu and Zerko Wako
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:174
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  17. Women with Intellectual disability have many problems in their sexual and reproductive health due to their special mental and physical conditions caused by disability. This study aimed to develop and evaluate ...

    Authors: Abbas Ebadi, Ziba Taghizadeh and Maryam Farmahini Farahani
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:173
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  19. The goal of this study is to clarify clinical, functional, and biochemical features of postmenopausal women who are at risk of developing osteosarcopenia.

    Authors: Zhila Maghbooli, Sadegh Mozaffari, Yasaman Dehhaghi, Pedram Rezaei Amirkiasar, Ali Asghar Malekhosseini, Mohamadtaher Rezanejad and Michael F. Holick
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:171
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Women's Health 2022 22:323

  20. Transgender people are at serious risk for HIV infection and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), they are four times more likely to experience HIV infection than the general population. The aim of th...

    Authors: Azar Nematollahi, Safoora Gharibzadeh, Maryam Damghanian, Saeid Gholamzadeh and Farnaz Farnam
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:170
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  21. Little research has been conducted to explore variables associated with the healthcare providers’ (HCPs) understanding and recommendation of human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV) since the vaccine was approved fo...

    Authors: Siqi Chen, Chaofan Mei, Weikang Huang, Peiyi Liu, He Wang, Wei Lin, Shixin Yuan and Yueyun Wang
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:169
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  22. Inefficiency of in vitro fertilization (IVF) programs can be caused by implantation failures. The uterine microbiota can influence the implantation process. However, it still remains unclear whether opportunis...

    Authors: Lela K. Keburiya, Veronika Yu. Smolnikova, Tatiana V. Priputnevich, Vera V. Muravieva, Alexey B. Gordeev, Dmitry Yu. Trofimov, Ekaterina S. Shubina, Taisiya O. Kochetkova, Margarita S. Rogacheva, Elena A. Kalinina and Gennady T. Sukhikh
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:168
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  25. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a global health problem associated with significant morbidity during reproductive age. Only a few published studies that address the clinical manifestations and phenotypic p...

    Authors: Alawia N. Elasam, Mohamed A. Ahmed, Abdel B. A. Ahmed, Manal E. Sharif, Abdalla Abusham, Bahaeldin Hassan and Ishag Adam
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:165
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  26. It has been hypothesized that women with significant pelvic organ prolapse (POP), particularly of the anterior vaginal wall, may have voiding dysfunction (VD). Although the VD mechanism due to cystocele is not...

    Authors: Takeya Kitta, Hirokazu Abe, Huang Ting-wen, Masahiro Fujikawa, Minoru Nakazono, Taiki Sasa, Yukiko Doi, Sari Toki, Daigo Okada, Atsuhiko Ochi, Koichiro Suzuki, Yasuhide Kitagawa and Nobuo Shinohara
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:164
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  27. Malignant transformation of endometriosis is infrequent at the laparoscopic trocar site. Although malignant transformation is uncommon, it must be acknowledged in order to achieve radical resection.

    Authors: Ling Han and Bingyi Zhang
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:163
    Content type: Case report Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Women's Health 2022 22:318

  28. The global HIV burden remains a public health concern. Women engaged in sex work (WESW) are at higher risk of acquiring HIV compared to the general adult population. Uganda reports high rates of HIV prevalence...

    Authors: Ozge Sensoy Bahar, Proscovia Nabunya, Josephine Nabayinda, Susan S. Witte, Joshua Kiyingi, Larissa Jennings Mayo-Wilson, Prema Filippone, Lyla Sunyoung Yang, Janet Nakigudde, Yesim Tozan and Fred M. Ssewamala
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:162
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  29. Pelvic floor muscle training is recommended as first line treatment for urinary incontinence in women based on three proposed theorized mechanisms: ‘Enhanced Pelvic Floor Muscle Strength,’ ‘Maximized Awareness...

    Authors: Ying Sheng, Janet S. Carpenter, James A. Ashton-Miller and Janis M. Miller
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:161
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  30. Injury to the external iliac artery can have serious consequences and can be extremely challenging for surgeons. Here, we report a patient with bizarre disconnection of the external iliac artery during a lapar...

    Authors: Shixuan Wang, Ting Zhou, Nan Yu and Ronghua Liu
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:160
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  31. Women experiencing homelessness have complex and multifaceted healthcare needs and yet they are an underserved population across healthcare services. Nurses are trained to perform an integral role in the provi...

    Authors: Sophie Nadia Gaber, Andreas Karlsson Rosenblad, Elisabet Mattsson and Anna Klarare
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:159
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  32. Globally, there has been a decline in female child marriage (FCM) from 1 in 4 girls married a decade ago to approximately 1 in 5 currently. However, this decline is not homogenous because some regions are stil...

    Authors: Obasanjo Afolabi Bolarinwa, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Joshua Okyere, Abdul-Aziz Seidu and Olalekan Seun Olagunju
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:158
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  33. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common and perplexing condition affecting metabolic, reproductive, cardiovascular, and psychological health in women. Previous studies point to widespread dissatisfaction ...

    Authors: Miya Ismayilova and Sanni Yaya
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:157
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  34. Mental health problems rank among the leading causes of disability among young people globally. Young people growing up in urban slums are exposed to adverse childhood experiences, violence, and other adversit...

    Authors: Yohannes Dibaba Wado, Karen Austrian, Benta A. Abuya, Beth Kangwana, Nicole Maddox and Caroline W. Kabiru
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:156
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  35. All management guidelines of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) recommend daily monitoring of women's body weight, waist circumference and note that as indicators increase, the severity OHSS also increa...

    Authors: Aleksei Petrovich Petrenko, Camil Castelo-Branco, Dimitry Vasilevich Marshalov, Alexander Valerievich Kuligin, Efim Munevich Shifman, Elena Sergeevna Nesnova and Batsunova Mariia Olegovna
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:155
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  36. There has been extensive research across the globe to understand the barriers and facilitators of cervical cancer (CC) screening. However, few studies have focused on how such information has been used to deve...

    Authors: Harriet Affran Bonful, Adolphina Addoley Addo-Lartey, Ransford Selasi Sefenu, Adanna Nwameme, Timothy Agandah Abagre, Adolf Kofi Awua, Nii Armah Adu-Aryee, Florence Dedey, Richard Mawuena Kofi Adanu and Kolawole Stephen Okuyemi
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:154
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  37. The objective of our study was to evaluate the association between the transition to menopause, body dissatisfaction, and abnormal eating habits (restrained eating, binge eating, and orthorexia nervosa) in a s...

    Authors: Joe Khalil, Sarah Boutros, Nelly Kheir, Maha Kassem, Pascale Salameh, Hala Sacre, Marwan Akel, Sahar Obeid and Souheil Hallit
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:153
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  38. Nowadays because of some necessities and demands for virtual and remote education, a new model of health approach through mobile-phones is widely used to deal with improving physical activity and its beneficia...

    Authors: Erfaneh Talebi, Hamideh Mohaddesi, Davoud Vahabzadeh and Javad Rasuli
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:152
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  40. It is suspected that hormonal fluctuations during menstruation may cause different responses to strength training in women who use oral contraceptives (OC) versus those who do not. However, previous studies th...

    Authors: Eun-Sook Sung, Ahreum Han, Timo Hinrichs, Matthias Vorgerd and Petra Platen
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:150
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  41. The perimenopausal period is associated with a higher risk of various mood disorders. Similarly, although resting-state electroencephalogram (rsEEG) brain oscillatory activity has been associated with various ...

    Authors: Ren-Jen Hwang, Hsiu-Chin Hsu, Lee-Fen Ni, Hsin-Ju Chen, Yu-Sheun Lee and Yueh-O. Chuang
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:149
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Women's Health 2022 22:231

  42. Women living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) are at a high risk for early development of cervical cancer. Adherence to cervical cancer prevention strategies in this population is vital for the early de...

    Authors: Najjuka Sarah Maria, Connie Olwit, Mark Mohan Kaggwa, Rose Chalo Nabirye and Tom Denis Ngabirano
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:148
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  43. Vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) is a common gynecologic problem in the United States but estimates of its true incidence and prevalence are lacking. We estimated self-reported incidence and lifetime prevalence ...

    Authors: Kaitlin Benedict, Alyson L. Singleton, Brendan R. Jackson and Noelle Angelique M. Molinari
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:147
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  44. To evaluate the effects of a combined oral contraceptive containing 1.5 mg 17b-estradiol (E2) and 2.5 mg nomegestrol acetate (NOMAC) or 2 mg/daily dienogest (DNG) oral progestin on endometriosis-associated chr...

    Authors: Salvatore Caruso, Antonio Cianci, Marco Iraci Sareri, Marco Panella, Giuseppe Caruso and Stefano Cianci
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:146
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  46. Family planning (FP) is an important element of sexual and reproductive health and rights, but socio-cultural barriers and unbalanced gender relations often limit women’s decision-making about contraceptive us...

    Authors: Jenna Hoyt, Jessie K. Hamon, Shari Krishnaratne, Emmanuel Houndekon, Dora Curry, Miriam Mbembe, Seth Marcus, Misozi Kambanje, Shannon Pryor, Ariko Angela Barbra, Herbert Muhumuza, Nathaly Spilotros and Jayne Webster
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:144
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  47. Granulomatous mastitis (GM) is a chronic inflammatory mastitis disease that requires long-term treatment and has a high recurrence rate. Case management has been proven to be an effective mechanism in assistin...

    Authors: Yuan Deng, Ying Xiong, Ping Ning, Xin Wang, Xiao-Rong Han, Guo-Fang Tu and Pei-Yu He
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:143
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  48. Providing women with personalized estimates of their risk of developing breast cancer, as part of routine breast cancer screening programmes, allows women at higher risk to be offered more frequent screening o...

    Authors: David P. French, Victoria G. Woof, Helen Ruane, D. Gareth Evans, Fiona Ulph and Louise S. Donnelly
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:142
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  49. The role of human papillomavirus (HPV) antibodies acquired through natural infection and their role in protection for subsequent cervical or oral HPV-carriage remains unclear.

    Authors: Salla Vuorinen, Kari Syrjänen, Tim Waterboer, Seija Grénman, Stina Syrjänen and Karolina Louvanto
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:141
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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