Marit L. Bovbjerg, Ph.D.

Marit L. Bovbjerg, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Marit.Bovbjerg@oregonstate.edu

Office: 541-737-5313

Milam Hall

Milam Hall 139

2520 SW Campus Way

2520 SW Campus Way
Corvallis, OR 97331
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Safe for Whom? Determining Appropriate Candidates for Community Birth in the US

Marit Bovbjerg, Ph.D.

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Publications

2023

Journal Article

K. Boakye, Bovbjerg, M. L., Schuna, Jr, J. M., Branscum, A. J., Varma, R. Prasad, Ismail, R., Barbarash, O., Dominguez, J., Altuntas, Y., Anjana, R. Mohan, Yusuf, R., Kelishadi, R., Lopez-Jaramillo, P., Iqbal, R., Seron, P., Rosengren, A., Poirier, P., Lakshmi, P. V. M., Khatib, R., Zatonska, K., Hu, B., Yin, L., Wang, C., Yeates, K., Chifamba, J., AlHabib, K. F., Avezum, A., Dans, A., Lear, S. A., Yusuf, S., and Hystad, P., “Urbanization and physical activity in the global Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology study”, Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 1, 2023.

2022

Journal Article

M. L. Bovbjerg and Horan, H., “Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, January 2022.”, J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 101-112, 2022.
H. Horan, Cheyney, M., Torres, E. Gomez, Eick, G., Bovbjerg, M. L., and Snodgrass, J. Josh, “Maternal hair cortisol concentrations across pregnancy and the early postpartum period in a Puerto Rican sample.”, Am J Hum Biol, p. e23718, 2022.
E. Erickson, Tabari, K., Bovbjerg, M. L., and Cheyney, M., “Patterns in Second Stage Labor Care Practices Associated With Genital Tract Injury and Postpartum Hemorrhage During Physiologic Birth: A Latent Mixture Model Analysis”, International Journal of Childbirth, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 224 - 238, 2022.
A. K. Nulty, Bovbjerg, M. L., Savitz, D. A., Herring, A. H., Bradley, C. B., and Evenson, K. R., “Maternal Physical Activity at Term and Spontaneous Labor: A Case-Crossover Study.”, J Phys Act Health, pp. 1-9, 2022.
E. L. Tilden, Snowden, J. M., Bovbjerg, M. L., Cheyney, M., Lapidus, J., Wiedrick, J., and Caughey, A. B., “Duration of low-risk, spontaneous active labor and second stage with minimal medical intervention”, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, vol. 226, no. 1, pp. S512 - S513, 2022.
M. L. Bovbjerg, “Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, May 2022.”, J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 349-357, 2022.
E. L. Tilden, Snowden, J. M., Bovbjerg, M. L., Cheyney, M., Lapidus, J., Wiedrick, J., and Caughey, A. B., “The duration of spontaneous active and pushing phases of labour among 75,243 US women when intervention is minimal: A prospective, observational cohort study”, eClinicalMedicine, p. 101447, 2022.

2021

Journal Article

M. L. Bovbjerg, “Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, July 2021.”, J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 485-495, 2021.
M. L. Bovbjerg, Uphoff, A. E., and Rosenberg, K. D., “Two-Year Test-Retest Reliability of the Breastfeeding Duration Question Used By the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS): Implications for Research.”, Matern Child Health J, 2021.

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