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Exploring the COVID-19 pandemic experience of maternity clinicians in a high migrant population and low COVID-19 prevalence country: A qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Australia experienced a low prevalence of COVID-19 in 2020 compared to many other countries. However, maternity care has been impacted with hospital policy driven changes in practice. Little qualitative research has investigated maternity clinicians’ perception of the impact of COVID-19...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8570406/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34774447 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2021.10.011 |
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author | Melov, Sarah J. Galas, Nelma Swain, Julie Alahakoon, Thushari I. Lee, Vincent Cheung, N Wah McGee, Terry Pasupathy, Dharmintra McNab, Justin |
author_facet | Melov, Sarah J. Galas, Nelma Swain, Julie Alahakoon, Thushari I. Lee, Vincent Cheung, N Wah McGee, Terry Pasupathy, Dharmintra McNab, Justin |
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description | BACKGROUND: Australia experienced a low prevalence of COVID-19 in 2020 compared to many other countries. However, maternity care has been impacted with hospital policy driven changes in practice. Little qualitative research has investigated maternity clinicians’ perception of the impact of COVID-19 in a high-migrant population. AIM: To investigate maternity clinicians’ perceptions of patient experience, service delivery and personal experience in a high-migrant population. METHODS: We conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews with 14 maternity care clinicians in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Interviews were conducted from November to December 2020. A reflexive thematic approach was used for data analysis. FINDINGS: A key theme in the data was ‘COVID-19 related travel restrictions result in loss of valued family support for migrant families’. However, partners were often ‘stepping-up’ into the role of missing overseas relatives. The main theme in clinical care was a shift in healthcare delivery away from optimising patient care to a focus on preservation and safety of health staff. DISCUSSION: Clinicians were of the view migrant women were deeply affected by the loss of traditional support. However, the benefit may be the potential for greater gender equity and bonding opportunities for partners. Conflict with professional beneficence principles and values may result in bending rules when a disconnect exists between relaxed community health orders and restrictive hospital protocols during different phases of a pandemic. CONCLUSION: This research adds to the literature that migrant women require individualised culturally safe care because of the ongoing impact of loss of support during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-85704062021-11-08 Exploring the COVID-19 pandemic experience of maternity clinicians in a high migrant population and low COVID-19 prevalence country: A qualitative study Melov, Sarah J. Galas, Nelma Swain, Julie Alahakoon, Thushari I. Lee, Vincent Cheung, N Wah McGee, Terry Pasupathy, Dharmintra McNab, Justin Women Birth Article BACKGROUND: Australia experienced a low prevalence of COVID-19 in 2020 compared to many other countries. However, maternity care has been impacted with hospital policy driven changes in practice. Little qualitative research has investigated maternity clinicians’ perception of the impact of COVID-19 in a high-migrant population. AIM: To investigate maternity clinicians’ perceptions of patient experience, service delivery and personal experience in a high-migrant population. METHODS: We conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews with 14 maternity care clinicians in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Interviews were conducted from November to December 2020. A reflexive thematic approach was used for data analysis. FINDINGS: A key theme in the data was ‘COVID-19 related travel restrictions result in loss of valued family support for migrant families’. However, partners were often ‘stepping-up’ into the role of missing overseas relatives. The main theme in clinical care was a shift in healthcare delivery away from optimising patient care to a focus on preservation and safety of health staff. DISCUSSION: Clinicians were of the view migrant women were deeply affected by the loss of traditional support. However, the benefit may be the potential for greater gender equity and bonding opportunities for partners. Conflict with professional beneficence principles and values may result in bending rules when a disconnect exists between relaxed community health orders and restrictive hospital protocols during different phases of a pandemic. CONCLUSION: This research adds to the literature that migrant women require individualised culturally safe care because of the ongoing impact of loss of support during the COVID-19 pandemic. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Australian College of Midwives. 2022-09 2021-11-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8570406/ /pubmed/34774447 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2021.10.011 Text en Crown Copyright © 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Australian College of Midwives. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Melov, Sarah J. Galas, Nelma Swain, Julie Alahakoon, Thushari I. Lee, Vincent Cheung, N Wah McGee, Terry Pasupathy, Dharmintra McNab, Justin Exploring the COVID-19 pandemic experience of maternity clinicians in a high migrant population and low COVID-19 prevalence country: A qualitative study |
title | Exploring the COVID-19 pandemic experience of maternity clinicians in a high migrant population and low COVID-19 prevalence country: A qualitative study |
title_full | Exploring the COVID-19 pandemic experience of maternity clinicians in a high migrant population and low COVID-19 prevalence country: A qualitative study |
title_fullStr | Exploring the COVID-19 pandemic experience of maternity clinicians in a high migrant population and low COVID-19 prevalence country: A qualitative study |
title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the COVID-19 pandemic experience of maternity clinicians in a high migrant population and low COVID-19 prevalence country: A qualitative study |
title_short | Exploring the COVID-19 pandemic experience of maternity clinicians in a high migrant population and low COVID-19 prevalence country: A qualitative study |
title_sort | exploring the covid-19 pandemic experience of maternity clinicians in a high migrant population and low covid-19 prevalence country: a qualitative study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8570406/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34774447 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2021.10.011 |
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