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Refugee Women’s Receptiveness for Virtual Engagement on Reproductive Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic
BACKGROUND: Refugee women who leave their country due to persecution and violence have multiple barriers to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. The COVID-19 pandemic added an additional barrier to in-person reproductive health education, dialogue, and clinical care. This study aimed to as...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9097561/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35554855 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12529-022-10097-3 |
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author | Thiel de Bocanegra, Heike Goliaei, Zahra Khan, Nossin Banna, Sereen Behnam, Rawnaq Mody, Sheila K |
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description | BACKGROUND: Refugee women who leave their country due to persecution and violence have multiple barriers to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. The COVID-19 pandemic added an additional barrier to in-person reproductive health education, dialogue, and clinical care. This study aimed to assess the potential of using virtual group meetings as a forum for refugee women to learn about and discuss reproductive health concerns such as cervical cancer screening, family planning, childbirth, and postpartum care. METHOD: We conducted semi-structured interviews with 36 refugee women and stakeholders to assess factors that impact refugee women’s receptiveness for virtual platforms to obtain information and engage in discussions on reproductive health. Thematic analysis was conducted using the software Dedoose. RESULTS: Openness to engage in virtual platforms varied by refugee community, women’s demographic, and life experience. The women’s involvement with local refugee groups facilitated their engagement with virtual platforms. Furthermore, individuals’ family structure and marital relationship, along with literacy and English proficiency, and access to and familiarity with technology impacted engagement. Virtual groups needed to mirror confidentiality and women expressed a strong preference that groups were all-women. CONCLUSION: Refugee women are receptive to virtual groups on SRH when they are offered in a culturally appropriate manner that considers the living situations and access to technology after arrival to the USA. Findings from this study provide a framework to develop and tailor effective virtual or hybrid virtual-in-person programs for women in refugee communities. |
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spelling | pubmed-90975612022-05-12 Refugee Women’s Receptiveness for Virtual Engagement on Reproductive Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic Thiel de Bocanegra, Heike Goliaei, Zahra Khan, Nossin Banna, Sereen Behnam, Rawnaq Mody, Sheila K Int J Behav Med Full Length Manuscript BACKGROUND: Refugee women who leave their country due to persecution and violence have multiple barriers to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. The COVID-19 pandemic added an additional barrier to in-person reproductive health education, dialogue, and clinical care. This study aimed to assess the potential of using virtual group meetings as a forum for refugee women to learn about and discuss reproductive health concerns such as cervical cancer screening, family planning, childbirth, and postpartum care. METHOD: We conducted semi-structured interviews with 36 refugee women and stakeholders to assess factors that impact refugee women’s receptiveness for virtual platforms to obtain information and engage in discussions on reproductive health. Thematic analysis was conducted using the software Dedoose. RESULTS: Openness to engage in virtual platforms varied by refugee community, women’s demographic, and life experience. The women’s involvement with local refugee groups facilitated their engagement with virtual platforms. Furthermore, individuals’ family structure and marital relationship, along with literacy and English proficiency, and access to and familiarity with technology impacted engagement. Virtual groups needed to mirror confidentiality and women expressed a strong preference that groups were all-women. CONCLUSION: Refugee women are receptive to virtual groups on SRH when they are offered in a culturally appropriate manner that considers the living situations and access to technology after arrival to the USA. Findings from this study provide a framework to develop and tailor effective virtual or hybrid virtual-in-person programs for women in refugee communities. Springer US 2022-05-12 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9097561/ /pubmed/35554855 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12529-022-10097-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Full Length Manuscript Thiel de Bocanegra, Heike Goliaei, Zahra Khan, Nossin Banna, Sereen Behnam, Rawnaq Mody, Sheila K Refugee Women’s Receptiveness for Virtual Engagement on Reproductive Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title | Refugee Women’s Receptiveness for Virtual Engagement on Reproductive Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full | Refugee Women’s Receptiveness for Virtual Engagement on Reproductive Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | Refugee Women’s Receptiveness for Virtual Engagement on Reproductive Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Refugee Women’s Receptiveness for Virtual Engagement on Reproductive Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_short | Refugee Women’s Receptiveness for Virtual Engagement on Reproductive Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | refugee women’s receptiveness for virtual engagement on reproductive health during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Full Length Manuscript |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9097561/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35554855 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12529-022-10097-3 |
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