ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2013
Preconception counseling for preventable risks.
Article in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Preconception health interventions delivered in public health and community settings: A systematic review.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2017Pooled it
- Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of an Interconception Intervention Provided by Public Health Nurses.Maternal and child health journal · 2020Trial
- Enablers and Barriers Related to Preconception Physical Activity: Insights from Women of Reproductive Age Using Mixed Methods.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Non-communicable diseases and maternal health: a scoping review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Article
- Medical, behavioural and social preconception and interconception risk factors among pregnancy planning and recently pregnant Canadian women.Family medicine and community health · 2022Article
- Preconception Care for Men and Women during the Pandemic, an Intervention Proposal.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Factors Influencing Quality of Life during the First Trimester of Pregnancy: A Prospective Cohort Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Article
- Reproductive Life Planning: A Cross-Sectional Study of What College Students Know and Believe.Maternal and child health journal · 2016Article
- Effects of preconception counseling on maternal health care of migrant women in China: a community-based, cross-sectional survey.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2015Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
questionA healthy woman of reproductive age complained that when she saw me before pregnancy I did not advise her that she could check her varicella immunity and get vaccinated. She contracted chickenpox and endured unnecessary anxiety. This led me to think that it would be useful to have a summary of all the preconception counseling advice we should give to our patients to ensure the best pregnancy outcomes possible. Could Motherisk provide such a summary? ANSWER: Although favourable pregnancy outcomes cannot be guaranteed, when a pregnancy is planned, many risk factors can be reduced and modified to enhance pregnancy outcomes. In the summary provided we will discuss optimization of diet, weight, and exercise; discontinuation of smoking and drinking; controlling chronic medical conditions; starting supplementation with multivitamins and folic acid; and ensuring proper immunization.
Indexed as
Identifiers
23851536PMC3710036What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.