Objective: to describe women's experiences and perceptions of their first pregnancy. Design,
setting and participants: a qualitative study, using grounded theory. Data were obtained from …

This paper examines the concept of maternal health literacy, defined as the cognitive and
social skills that determine the motivation and ability of women to gain access to …

Thirteen women's experiences in antenatal education classes emerged as significant during
the data analysis of a much larger study on women's experiences of their first pregnancy …

This article aims to identify the learning needs of expectant and new parents for antenatal
education as perceived by health professionals. In Australia, antenatal education programs …

This study examines the organization of discourse in antenatal classrooms in south-western
Nigeria. Antenatal literacy classrooms are classes organized in hospitals and health centres …

This research situated antenatal education within a health promotion framework to
determine a consumer-based approach to improving antenatal and postnatal education …

OBJECTIVE: to explore the learning needs of multigravid Ghanaian women in an effort to
develop more effective prenatal education programmes. DESIGN: a descriptive–exploratory …

My purpose in writing this article is to describe the various ways expectant women acquire
childbirth knowledge. The data presented here form a small section of a bigger study that …

Antenatal education has frequently been seen as a challenge for midwifery (Murphy-Black
1990). Now, with the increased emphasis on health promotion (DoH 1992), the complexity of …

Teenage pregnancies have become an issue of increasing concern in New Zealand with the
second highest teenage pregnancy rate in the world. Pregnant teenagers do not seek early …