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  Impact of preconception health education on health locus of control and self-efficacy in women 

  Bastani, F.; Hashemi, S.; Bastani, N.; Haghani, H. (‎2010)‎

  The preconception period is an ideal opportunity to optimize women's health. This study of women attending premarital clinics in the Islamic Republic of Iran aimed to evaluate the impact of a health education workshop on their health locus of control and self-efficacy in physical activity. The design was a randomized controlled trial with a questionnaire before and after the intervention. At post-intervention, there were significant increases in scores of internal health locus of control and self-efficacy in the experimental group [‎n = 109]‎ ...
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  Summary report on the meeting on promoting preconception care in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Muscat, Oman 25–27 March 2015 

  World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (‎WHO-EM/WRH/096/E, 2015)‎
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  Preconception care 

  World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia (‎SEA-CAH-16, 2014)‎

  Preconception care is a set of interventions that are to be provided before pregnancy, to promote the health and well-being of women and couples, as well as to improve the pregnancy and child-health outcomes. Adolescence is a natural extension of the pre-pregnancy phase of the life-course continuum. During adolescence, in addition to initiation of sexual behaviour, it is recognized that several health-risk behaviours related to noncommunicable diseases, substance use, injuries, etc. are also initiated and may have lifelong implications. This phase ...