Exploring ethnic minority women’s experiences of maternity care during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: a qualitative study
| Autor: | Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Jeeva John, Gwenetta Curry |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Postnatal Care
health services administration & management media_common.quotation_subject Ethnic group Language barrier Interpersonal communication organisation of health services Racism quality in health care 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Cultural dissonance Nursing Pregnancy Obstetrics and Gynaecology Pandemic Ethnicity Humans Medicine Maternal Health Services 030212 general & internal medicine 10. No inequality Pandemics Minority Groups Qualitative Research media_common obstetrics 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine SARS-CoV-2 business.industry Parturition COVID-19 General Medicine 3. Good health Female business Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | BMJ Open, Vol 11, Iss 9 (2021) BMJ Open John, J, Curry, G & Cunningham-Burley, S 2021, ' Exploring ethnic minority women’s experiences of maternity care during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: a qualitative study ', BMJ Open, vol. 11, no. 9 . https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050666 |
| ISSN: | 2044-6055 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050666 |
| Popis: | ObjectiveTo explore the experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, antenatal and postnatal care in women belonging to ethnic minorities and to identify any specific challenges that these women faced during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.DesignThis was a qualitative study using semistructured interviews of pregnant women or those who were 6 weeks postnatal from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds. The study included 16 women in a predominantly urban Scottish health board area.ResultsThe finding are presented in four themes: ‘communication’, ‘interactions with healthcare professionals’, ‘racism’ and ‘the pandemic effect’. Each theme had relevant subthemes. ‘Communication’ encompassed respect, accent bias, language barrier and cultural dissonance; ‘interactions with healthcare professionals’: continuity of care, empathy, informed decision making and dissonance with other healthcare systems; ‘racism’ was deemed to be institutional, interpersonal or internalised; and ‘the pandemic effect’ consisted of isolation, psychological impact and barriers to access of care.ConclusionsThis study provides insight into the specific challenges faced by ethnic minority women in pregnancy, which intersect with the unique problems posed by the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic to potentially widen existing ethnic disparities in maternal outcomes and experiences of maternity care. |
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