Inclusion | Exclusion |
1) Study conducted on herbal medicine, herbal uterotonics or complementary and alternative medicine use in pre/pregnancy, labour, postpartum. 2) Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods and are explicitly primary studies. 3) Must be published in a peer-reviewed journal. 4) Must be explicitly on “herbal medicine”, “herbal uterotonics,” “traditional medicine” use in “pre/pregnancy,” “labour or birth or postpartum”. 5) Must have full text accessible and free to download. 6) All study designs. | 1) Not focused on “herbal medicine” or “herbal uterotonics” and “pregnancy, labour/birth, and the postpartum/postnatal”. 2) Literature reviews, case reports, clinical trials, and unpublished works. 3) Documents and articles on herbal medicine or complementary and alternative medicine in general. 4) Commentaries, reviews, quantitative studies, articles in a non-peer reviewed journal, laboratory reports, thesis or dissertations, and reports of activity implementation were excluded. 5) Excluded if the full text was inaccessible. 6) Does not address pre-conception, pregnancy, labour, postpartum components of maternal health. |