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The lived experience among Somali women of giving birth in Sweden: an interpretive phenomenological study
BACKGROUND: The health care-seeking behaviour among Somali women is different from Swedish women’s behaviour, and this may have consequences for birth giving. The aim of the study was to identify and describe Somali women’s lived experience of birth giving in Sweden. METHODS: Qualitative individual...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7193409/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32357845 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-020-02933-9 |
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author | Wallmo, Susanne Allgurin, Karin Berterö, Carina |
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description | BACKGROUND: The health care-seeking behaviour among Somali women is different from Swedish women’s behaviour, and this may have consequences for birth giving. The aim of the study was to identify and describe Somali women’s lived experience of birth giving in Sweden. METHODS: Qualitative individual interviews were conducted in Swedish with seven Somali women. The sample was purposeful, and the snowball sampling method was used. The interviews were digitally recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. RESULTS: Four themes emerged during the analysis which revealed the Somali women’s lived experiences of giving birth in Sweden. a) Being recognised and confirmed as a woman. Somali women consider it important to be confirmed as a woman by the surrounding and professionals during pregnancy and birth giving. b) Communication is important for the women’s independence. There is a need to provide a structure for how this information is given and adaptation regarding content and format .c) Something naturally becomes unknown and complicated. Somali women come from a different culture, which affects their lived experiences of pregnancy and birth giving. There is a need for improved and clearer information for these Somali women regarding pregnancy and birth giving in another culture- the Swedish context d) Professional and competent taking care of. The women appreciate if they are treated with competency and professionalism; they do not want to be discriminated. The women feel confidence in health care when they meet competent and professional health care professionals. CONCLUSIONS: The findings in the study indicate that reproductive health care for Somali women should be improved with regard to cultural differences and lived experiences, as this affects their experience of pregnancy and childbirth in Sweden. There is a need for both knowledge and understanding in order to provide good quality care for these Somali women, especially those who have been genitally mutilated. |
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spelling | pubmed-71934092020-05-06 The lived experience among Somali women of giving birth in Sweden: an interpretive phenomenological study Wallmo, Susanne Allgurin, Karin Berterö, Carina BMC Pregnancy Childbirth Research Article BACKGROUND: The health care-seeking behaviour among Somali women is different from Swedish women’s behaviour, and this may have consequences for birth giving. The aim of the study was to identify and describe Somali women’s lived experience of birth giving in Sweden. METHODS: Qualitative individual interviews were conducted in Swedish with seven Somali women. The sample was purposeful, and the snowball sampling method was used. The interviews were digitally recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. RESULTS: Four themes emerged during the analysis which revealed the Somali women’s lived experiences of giving birth in Sweden. a) Being recognised and confirmed as a woman. Somali women consider it important to be confirmed as a woman by the surrounding and professionals during pregnancy and birth giving. b) Communication is important for the women’s independence. There is a need to provide a structure for how this information is given and adaptation regarding content and format .c) Something naturally becomes unknown and complicated. Somali women come from a different culture, which affects their lived experiences of pregnancy and birth giving. There is a need for improved and clearer information for these Somali women regarding pregnancy and birth giving in another culture- the Swedish context d) Professional and competent taking care of. The women appreciate if they are treated with competency and professionalism; they do not want to be discriminated. The women feel confidence in health care when they meet competent and professional health care professionals. CONCLUSIONS: The findings in the study indicate that reproductive health care for Somali women should be improved with regard to cultural differences and lived experiences, as this affects their experience of pregnancy and childbirth in Sweden. There is a need for both knowledge and understanding in order to provide good quality care for these Somali women, especially those who have been genitally mutilated. BioMed Central 2020-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7193409/ /pubmed/32357845 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-020-02933-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Wallmo, Susanne Allgurin, Karin Berterö, Carina The lived experience among Somali women of giving birth in Sweden: an interpretive phenomenological study |
title | The lived experience among Somali women of giving birth in Sweden: an interpretive phenomenological study |
title_full | The lived experience among Somali women of giving birth in Sweden: an interpretive phenomenological study |
title_fullStr | The lived experience among Somali women of giving birth in Sweden: an interpretive phenomenological study |
title_full_unstemmed | The lived experience among Somali women of giving birth in Sweden: an interpretive phenomenological study |
title_short | The lived experience among Somali women of giving birth in Sweden: an interpretive phenomenological study |
title_sort | lived experience among somali women of giving birth in sweden: an interpretive phenomenological study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7193409/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32357845 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-020-02933-9 |
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