Longitudinal health survey of women from Venezuela in Colombia (ELSA-VENCOL): First report.

Autor: Acosta-Reyes J; Department of Public Health, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia., Fernández-Niño JA; Department of Public Health, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia.; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America., Rojas-Botero ML; Facultad Nacional de Salud Pública, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia., Bonilla-Tinoco LJ; Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia., Aguirre M; Department of Public Health, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia., Anillo LÁ; Department of Public Health, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia., Rodríguez DA; International Organization for Migration (IOM), Bogotá, Colombia., Cifuentes LY; International Organization for Migration (IOM), Bogotá, Colombia., Jiménez I; International Organization for Migration (IOM), Bogotá, Colombia., León LF; International Organization for Migration (IOM), Bogotá, Colombia., Bojorquez-Chapela I; El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, México.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2023 Mar 30; Vol. 18 (3), pp. e0274157. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Mar 30 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0274157
Abstrakt: Background: Colombia is currently the world's main recipient country for Venezuelan migrants, and women represent a high proportion of them. This article presents the first report of a cohort of Venezuelan migrant women entering Colombia through Cúcuta and its metropolitan area. The study aimed to describe the health status and access to healthcare services among Venezuelan migrant women in Colombia with irregular migration status, and to analyze changes in those conditions at a one-month follow-up.
Methods: We carried out a longitudinal cohort study of Venezuelan migrant women, 18 to 45 years, who entered Colombia with an irregular migration status. Study participants were recruited in Cúcuta and its metropolitan area. At baseline, we administered a structured questionnaire including sociodemographic characteristics, migration history, health history, access to health services, sexual and reproductive health, practice of early detection of cervical cancer and breast cancer, food insecurity, and depressive symptoms. The women were again contacted by phone one month later, between March and July 2021, and a second questionnaire was applied.
Results: A total of 2,298 women were included in the baseline measurement and 56.4% could be contacted again at the one-month follow-up. At the baseline, 23.0% of the participants reported a self-perceived health problem or condition in the past month and 29.5% in the past 6 months, and 14.5% evaluated their health as fair or poor. A significant increase was found in the percentage of women who reported a self-perceived health problem during the past month (from 23.1% to 31.4%; p<0.01); as well as in the share who reported moderate, severe, or extreme difficulty working or performing daily chores (from 5.5% to 11.0%; p = 0.03) and who rated their health as fair (from 13.0% to 31.2%; p<0.01). Meanwhile, the percentage of women with depressive symptoms decreased from 80.5% to 71.2% (p<0.01).
Conclusion: This report presents initial information on the health status of Venezuelan migrant women in Colombia, and is a starting point for further longer longitudinal follow-ups to assess changes over time in health conditions.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2023 Acosta-Reyes et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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