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Record W4411515461 · doi:10.1016/j.ijans.2025.100863

Motherhood and pregnancy loss in the African context: A scoping review

2025· review· en· W4411515461 on OpenAlex
Irene Torshie Attachie, Ilo‐Katryn Maimets, F. Beryl Pilkington

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicGlobal Maternal and Child Health
Canadian institutionsOntario Council of University LibrariesYork University
FundersUniversity of Health and Allied SciencesYork University
KeywordsContext (archaeology)PregnancyObstetricsPsychologyMedicineBiologyGeneticsPaleontology

Abstract

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Introduction Pregnancy is associated with a woman’s transition to motherhood; however, pregnancy-loss produces intrapersonal and sociocultural disruption, with existential implications and lowered self-esteem. Motherhood, being culture-sensitive, warrants understanding how societies view motherhood when there is pregnancy-loss , to facilitate socioculturally sensitive and supportive services for bereaved women and families. Despite feminist enlightenment, in some societies a woman is seen as “incomplete” until she has a child. In Africa, women who experience pregnancy losses, especially those with no living children, are denied motherhood recognition. Purpose To understand the extent and type of knowledge available on motherhood when there is pregnancy loss in the African context; identify themes from psycho-social, nursing, and midwifery perspectives; and to provide a map of available knowledge as well as gaps for future for future research. Review question What is the existing knowledge on motherhood recognition when pregnancy loss occurs in the African context? Eligible publications must be in English, it included quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods studies, and exclude other languages, on animals, and epidemiological information. Methods A scoping review was conducted in line with the steps of Arksey and O’Malley, modeled by the Joana Briggs Institute’s Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews Checklist. Results A descriptive Content analysis of seven articles reported that mothers want acknowledgment, also motherhood recognition diminishes at the level of the individual, society, and health-care-workers. Conclusion In pregnancy-loss, society must not strip bereaved mothers of the motherhood status of their status, to promote maternal mental health.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.976
Threshold uncertainty score0.376

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.060
GPT teacher head0.436
Teacher spread0.375 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it