2024
A group prenatal care intervention reduces gestational weight gain and gestational diabetes in American Samoan women
Hawley N, Faasalele‐Savusa K, Faiai M, Suiaunoa‐Scanlan L, Loia M, Ickovics J, Kocher E, Piel C, Mahoney M, Suss R, Trocha M, Rosen R, Muasau‐Howard B. A group prenatal care intervention reduces gestational weight gain and gestational diabetes in American Samoan women. Obesity 2024, 32: 1833-1843. PMID: 39256170, DOI: 10.1002/oby.24102.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGestational weight gainPostpartum weight changeGestational diabetes screeningClinically important between-group differenceDiabetes screeningGestational diabetesUsual care participantsPrenatal care interventionsMode of birthLow-risk pregnant womenPre-pregnancy obesityAmerican Samoan womenIncidence of gestational diabetesProportion of womenGestational diabetes incidenceInfant birth weightWeight gainBetween-group differencesCare interventionsCare participantsPreliminary effectivenessWeight changeRandom group assignmentDiabetes incidenceHigh-risk settingsNarratives of pregnancy across 19 Countries: Analysis of a 1.5-billion-word news media database
Sy K, Chow T, Ickovics J, Ng R. Narratives of pregnancy across 19 Countries: Analysis of a 1.5-billion-word news media database. PLOS ONE 2024, 19: e0305866. PMID: 39213429, PMCID: PMC11364417, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0305866.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNarratives of pregnancyNews media discourseEnglish-speaking countriesPregnancy narrativesRepresentations of pregnancyBig data corpusMedia discourseMedia corpusNews mediaLexical proximityNews websitesMedia narrativesSemantic bondsNews articlesNewsNarrativesMedia databaseSociocultural contextSocietal representationsDominant themesCelebrityCorpusThemesDiscourseContextual informationExpect With Me — Group Prenatal Care to Reduce Disparities
Lewis J, Ickovics J. Expect With Me — Group Prenatal Care to Reduce Disparities. New England Journal Of Medicine 2024, 390: 2039-2040. PMID: 38856191, DOI: 10.1056/nejmp2400482.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2023
“‘Oh gosh, why go?’ cause they are going to look at me and not hire”: intersectional experiences of black women navigating employment during pregnancy and parenting
Mehra R, Alspaugh A, Dunn J, Franck L, McLemore M, Keene D, Kershaw T, Ickovics J. “‘Oh gosh, why go?’ cause they are going to look at me and not hire”: intersectional experiences of black women navigating employment during pregnancy and parenting. BMC Pregnancy And Childbirth 2023, 23: 17. PMID: 36627577, PMCID: PMC9830615, DOI: 10.1186/s12884-022-05268-9.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFamily-friendly workplace policiesIntersectional frameworkPregnancy discriminationLived experienceWorkplace policiesUnited StatesSemi-structured interviewsEconomic marginalizationIntersectional experiencesWomen's experiencesWomen's perspectivesRacial inequitiesSocial identityLabor forceEmployment contextSecure futureQualitative dataHealth equityInterview transcriptsI WannaBlack womenLegal protectionPolicyPregnant women's experiencesEmployment
2001
New mothers' knowledge and attitudes about perinatal human immunodeficiency virus infection.
Walter E, Royce R, Fernández M, DeHovitz J, Ickovics J, Lampe M. New mothers' knowledge and attitudes about perinatal human immunodeficiency virus infection. Obstetrics And Gynecology 2001, 97: 70-6. PMID: 11152911, DOI: 10.1016/s0029-7844(00)01070-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPerinatal HIV transmissionPercent of womenHIV transmissionPerinatal transmissionHIV testPerinatal human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infectionHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infectionHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testingFuture public health effortsHIV test acceptanceNew mothers' knowledgePrenatal HIV testImmunodeficiency virus infectionPrenatal HIV testingPublic health effortsCross-sectional surveyPublic health systemOrigin of HIVPerinatal HIVHIV testingPregnant womenPostpartum womenHours postpartumMothers' knowledgeVirus infection