The desire to enhance sexual pleasure and satisfaction, ensure fidelity in relationships and treat sexual dysfunctions are some of the common factors attributed to the use of traditional aphrodisiacs in Nigeria. However, its connection to women’s sexual agency and empowerment in…
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The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how the experience of reproductive loss impacts African American women residing in West Virginia. For the purposes of this study the term reproductive loss (Wenzel, 2014) was expanded to include abortion experiences to capture…
Parenthood is one of the normative life cycle events and an interruption or dislocation at this transition point threatens or frustrates couples' desire for parenthood, and creates a state that has been conceptualized as "crisis of infertility" (Cook, 1987; Menning, 1980). A pur…
Availability of oxidizable metabolic fuels is a primary factor affecting fertility, in female mammals. Reductions in metabolic fuel availability caused by food deprivation, treatment with pharmacological inhibitors of glycolysis (2-deoxy-D-glucose, 2DG) and fatty acid oxidation …
A reduction in the availability of oxidizable metabolic fuels inhibits reproduction. When ovariectomized, steroid-primed hamsters are food deprived for 48 hours, estrous behavior is suppressed. However, the specific neuroendocrine alterations that mediate the suppression or rest…
Social egg freezing is a fertility preservation strategy which enables women to preserve a number of healthy unfertilised eggs for potential future use when faced with the threat of age-related fertility decline. The overall aim of this thesis was to explore how women understand…
As women who are sub-fertile, infertile or whose children have died, kanyalengs play a special role at public gatherings and celebrations as performers in The Gambia. The collective activities of kanyalengs speak to the hardships that are associated with the inability to meet cu…
According to the World Health Organization, infertility affects more than 80 million people around the world, whereby one in ten couples experience primary or secondary infertility. Most of those who suffer from infertility, moreover, live in developing countries where infertili…
Not having a child has significant psychosocial effects on women experiencing infertility problems. There is a gap in research on social anxiety, quality of life, and healthy lifestyle behaviors of women during infertility, fertility treatment, and subsequent pregnancy. The purp…
Background Pregnancies following assisted reproductive technology (ART) are associated with various placental related complications, some of which may be predicted by biomarkers earlier on in the pregnancy. Meanwhile, biomarker profiles in ART pregnancies are altered as compared…
Reproductive technologies, such as in vitro fertilization and intracytoplasmic sperm injection, used for the biomedical treatment of infertility have become a routine component of Germany's social medical system. German Turks, an ethnic group traditionally marked as overpopulate…
This study explores women’s experiences with infertility in Christian faith communities. Drawing from nine one-on-one interviews, the author argues that the presence of particular religious ideologies, social interactions, and rituals within faith communities contributed to the …
African American women are disproportionately affected by fibroids, and many of them have reported health care experiences of discrimination, biases, and differential care that have affected their overall health significantly. African American women are less likely to receive ne…
As advised in household recipe books and publicly published prescription books, this paper will delve deep into the realm of domestic remedies particularly those recipes that assist in fertility. These manuscripts include remedies to provoke menstruation, balance the humors of t…
This study explores women’s experiences with infertility in Christian faith communities. Drawing from nine one-on-one interviews, the author argues that the presence of particular religious ideologies, social interactions, and rituals within faith communities contributed to the …
Infertility affects approximately 12% of women in the United States. Most studies of the psychology of infertility address it from a general perspective, with few studies offering cultural specificity, and even fewer applying a bicultural lens. The present study focused on the p…
Background: Women who inherit a BRCA pathogenic variant are 6 times more likely to develop breast cancer and 4 times more likely to develop ovarian cancer over the course of their lifetime. These are devastating statistics for women who are told this, as carrying this mutation c…
Thirteen first-time mothers who experienced infertility and in vitro fertilization participated in this exploratory constructivist grounded theory research. The participants ranged from 31 to 42 years of age. Their journeys to first-time motherhood spanned on average 5½ years. D…