Immigrant women's experience of maternity services in Canada: A meta-ethnography

Higginbottom, Gina; Hadziabdic, Emina; Yohani, Sophie; Paton, Patricia

doi:10.1016/j.midw.2013.06.004

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“…The body of knowledge shows that culture and traditional norms and values play an important role when it comes to health behavior and practice. [3][4][5][6][7] Culture as a complex and dynamic concept is defined as a way of living, which includes behaviors, knowledge, beliefs, and values held by individuals. [1,5,7] However, cultural awareness is acquired when someone is aware of his/her own cultural standpoint, is aware of the other person's cultural values and behaviors, and can distinguish and explain the cultural differences on this basis.…”

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Measuring nursing students’ cultural awareness: A cross-sectional study among three universities in southern Sweden

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Hadziabdic

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Background/Objective: Cultural awareness refers to when someone is aware of his/her own and other people's cultural values. Academic nursing education should promote students' ability to analyze, understand, and respect people's cultural backgrounds and their values to be able provide equitable care in a multicultural society. This essential competence for nursing students can be obtained through learning and practicing to prioritize people's greatest needs. The aim of this study was to explore students' cultural awareness related to their nursing education by considering their socio-demographic background. Methods: This quantitative study was conducted by means of a pre-designed Cultural Awareness Scale. In total, 215 students participated in this study. Descriptive statistics were used to report the distribution of the data, and regression analysis was carried out to assess the statistical significance of the association between the variables. Results: The results indicated moderately high cultural awareness among nursing students related to their general education, cognitive awareness, comfort with interaction, and clinical practice/patient care. Nevertheless, no statistically significant correlation was identified between the socio-demographic factors (sex, age, and experience of living abroad). However, being a first generation immigrant was significantly associated with better cultural awareness in terms of Patient Care/Clinical Issue. Conclusions: In Sweden, universities are free to design their educational programs since there is no universal curriculum that applies to all the universities; nonetheless, the relatively high level of cultural awareness remained the same for the universities under investigation. This finding suggests that the importance of cultural awareness in nursing education is recognized in this context.

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Measuring nursing students’ cultural awareness: A cross-sectional study among three universities in southern Sweden

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“…The same quoted Canadian experience further concludes that these crucial psycho-social and religious elements are "often overlooked in Canadian maternity settings [10]. " If looked for, the odds are in favour of the same conclusion in general, in Malta, as indeed elsewhere, such as Holland where :"These groups face similar problems, that is, the initial lack of knowledge on the Dutch health care system, language problems and difficulties arising in the communication with health care providers who have a different cultural background than the patient [11].…”

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“…One may expand on the word 'barriers' , quoted above, for language isolation is but the tip of the grave ethnic barrier rooted in "cultural knowledge, beliefs, religious and traditional preferences" [10]. The same quoted Canadian experience further concludes that these crucial psycho-social and religious elements are "often overlooked in Canadian maternity settings [10]. "…”

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Obstetric and Medico-Legal Challenges Posed by Sudden Immigrant Shift in a Southern Mediterranean Island

Buttigieg¹

2017

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“…Andrulis, Goodman, Pryor 2002;Oropesa et al 2000]. Některé ženy pocházejí z kultur, v nichž není zvykem v případě těho-tenství vyhledat lékařskou péči, takže to nepovažují za nutné a k péči přistupují výrazně později, nebo ji dokonce odmítají [Higginbottom et al 2014].…”

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An Intersection of Two Life Changes in Social-Science Research on Women's Health

Pařízková¹,

Glajchová²,

Hřešanová³

2018

Czech Sociological Review

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When the experiences of migration and becoming a mother intersect, the context and conditions of this have implications for the health of the women and their children. This article presents an overview of social-science research on health and pregnancy among migrant women and on the perinatal and postpartum care they receive. Research on 124 studies on this subject revealed that there are three main themes associated with maternal health in this context: (1) How women are defined and categorised as migrants: This is often based on a single indicator, country of origin or birth. This creates a simplified and homogenising category that then also serves as the basis for the use of more complex categories. (2) The significance of social support for families, especially with respect to informal care, and the fundamental role of language and language barriers in health care. The relationship between migrant women and health-care providers is impacted by cultural differences, which leave women in a vulnerable position. (3) Macro-sociological and epidemiological factors. These are discussed mainly from the perspective of the 'epidemiological paradox', which the authors here deem a rhetorical trick because it conceals the variableness of the findings obtained from perinatal health indicators. keywords: perinatal health, healthy immigrant effect, acculturation, migrant women, epidemiological paradox, health care

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Immigrant women's experience of maternity services in Canada: A meta-ethnography

Cited by 78 publications

References 49 publications

Measuring nursing students’ cultural awareness: A cross-sectional study among three universities in southern Sweden

Measuring nursing students’ cultural awareness: A cross-sectional study among three universities in southern Sweden

Obstetric and Medico-Legal Challenges Posed by Sudden Immigrant Shift in a Southern Mediterranean Island

An Intersection of Two Life Changes in Social-Science Research on Women's Health

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