Responding to patient requests for women obstetrician-gynecologists

Shalowitz, David I.; Tucker-Edmonds, Brownsyne; Marshall, Mary-Faith; White, Amina

doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2021.11.015

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“…Literature on cross-cultural healthcare has demonstrated that women refugees may avoid seeking healthcare in clinical settings that do not take into account critical culture-bound rules, such as need for a same-gender health provider or specific dietary restrictions (Attum & Shamoon, 2018; Siddiq et al, 2023; Winn et al, 2018). Unfortunately, in many Western healthcare organizations, while the need for culturally sensitive care is recognized, emphasis is also placed on the fact that healthcare facilities are neither legally nor ethically obligated to accommodate culture-specific requests of their patients (Shalowitz et al, 2022).…”

Section: Selected Theoretical Framework and Conceptsmentioning

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Understanding Refugees Health Experiences in Host Countries: Three Theoretical Perspectives

Gepshtein,

Lee,

Bounds

et al. 2024

Clin Nurs Res

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Healthcare providers working with forcefully displaced populations often have limited knowledge and skills regarding the care of this population. The reasons are twofold. First, most of the research on refugee health does not consider refugees’ adaptive skills, diversity of experiences, and daily life context. Second, healthcare providers’ knowledge of how the sociopolitical environment shapes health research and practice in the context of refugee care is often limited. This work aims to specify gaps in refugee healthcare and research by applying a relational approach to three theoretical frameworks. The relational approach supports a pragmatic, in-depth understanding of healthcare practices by shifting the focus of the inquiry from description of social structures toward exploration of processes and relations that propagate and sustain such structures. The focus is on the threefold interaction between refugees, healthcare providers, and healthcare institutions. The three theoretical frameworks are as follows: First, using concepts from the Theory of Practice by Bourdieu, we examine how gaps in care can result from a mismatch between the dispositions and skills that refugees develop through life experience and the cultural–professional practices of healthcare providers in host countries. Second, the Cultural Determinants of Help Seeking by Saint Arnault is applied to posit that gaps in care can result from differences in the meanings that healthcare providers and refugees assign to their interactions. Finally, we use the concept of Othering as described in nursing by Canales to explain how power dynamics inherent in the interaction between refugees and healthcare systems can affect refugee healthcare and research. This relational approach helps to elucidate some of the culture-bound mechanisms of health maintenance and help-seeking and brings attention to the sociopolitical context that shapes the way we care to refugees.

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Section: Selected Theoretical Framework and Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Refugees Health Experiences in Host Countries: Three Theoretical Perspectives

Gepshtein,

Lee,

Bounds

et al. 2024

Clin Nurs Res

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Gynecology and obstetrics patients' attitudes towards body privacy: A cross‐sectional‐descriptive study

Özdemir,

Işık,

Durukan

2024

Intl J Gynecology & Obste

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ObjectiveIt is extremely important for healthcare professionals to protect patients' privacy during diagnosis and treatment processes related to gynecology and obstetrics and to warn them in case patients' privacy is violated. This study was aimed at determining attitudes of female patients having obstetrics examination towards privacy and raising their awareness of privacy.MethodsThis cross‐sectional‐descriptive study was conducted with 410 patients who presented to the gynecology and obstetrics outpatient clinic of a university hospital. The survey form consisted of two forms: The descriptive characteristics questionnaire and the body privacy scale for gynecology and obstetrics (BPSGO). Frequency tables, descriptive statistics, Mann–Whitney U‐test, Kruskal–Wallis H‐test, and Bonferroni correction were used in the analysis of the data.ResultsThe mean age of the participants was 36.75 ± 11.18 years. Of these, 38.0% were in the age group of ≥40 years, 84.0% were married, 66.8% presented to the gynecology clinic, and 58.3% had negative emotions before they had gynecologic examination. Ethics and privacy subscale scores of the single participants were significantly higher than were those of the married participants.ConclusionIt was determined that privacy was affected by cultural characteristics, belief systems and personal values, and that most of the participants were likely to experience negative emotions. It is important to raise health professionals' awareness of privacy by drawing their attention to the value of privacy which is among ethical values in their education and to support the better functioning of legal regulations on this issue.

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Responding to patient requests for women obstetrician-gynecologists

Cited by 2 publications

References 34 publications

Understanding Refugees Health Experiences in Host Countries: Three Theoretical Perspectives

Understanding Refugees Health Experiences in Host Countries: Three Theoretical Perspectives

Gynecology and obstetrics patients' attitudes towards body privacy: A cross‐sectional‐descriptive study

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