ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health2016
"Can I Ask That?": Perspectives on Perinatal Care After Resettlement Among Karen Refugee Women, Medical Providers, and Community-Based Doulas.
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- Understanding equity-oriented maternity care for women of refugee background in high-income countries: a qualitative systematic review.International journal for equity in health · 2026Pooled it
- Bridging language gaps in healthcare: a systematic review of the practical implementation of neural machine translation technologies in clinical settings.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2025Pooled it
- Community-based doulas for migrant and refugee women: a mixed-method systematic review and narrative synthesis.BMJ global health · 2022Pooled it
- Perceptions and experiences of labour companionship: a qualitative evidence synthesis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Connecting with Arab/Middle Eastern Patients in Canadian Healthcare: Empathic Intercultural Communication.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2026Article
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- Characterizing the utilization of doula support services among birthing people of color in the United States: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Approaches for enhancing patient-reported experience measurement with ethnically diverse communities: a rapid evidence synthesis.International journal for equity in health · 2024Review
- Cultural brokering in pregnancy care: A critical review.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2023Review
- A scoping review of maternal health among resettled refugee women in the United States.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Accessing and navigating healthcare: A scoping review of the experiences of women of refugee background from Myanmar.Health & social care in the community · 2022Article
- System-level factors influencing refugee women's access and utilization of sexual and reproductive health services: A qualitative study of providers' perspectives.Frontiers in global women's health · 2022Article
- The Role of Culture in Shaping Health Perceptions and Behaviors of Resettled Karen Refugees.Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society · 2021Article
- Evaluating Birth Outcomes From a Community-Based Pregnancy Support Program for Refugee Women in Georgia.Frontiers in global women's health · 2021Article
- Navigating new lives: A scoping review and thematic synthesis of forced migrant women's perinatal experiences.Journal of migration and health · 2020Article
- "They were just waiting to die": Somali Bantu and Karen Experiences with Cancer Screening Pre- and Post-Resettlement in Buffalo, NY.Journal of the National Medical Association · 2019Article
- Adolescents' perceptions and experiences of pregnancy in refugee and migrant communities on the Thailand-Myanmar border: a qualitative study.Reproductive health · 2018Article
- Experiences and Perspectives of Perinatal Care for Women of Refugee Background, Interpreters, and Care Providers: A Scoping Review.Journal of midwifery & women's healthArticle
- "It takes a village and we are the village": A qualitative community-engaged study of doulas serving migrants and refugees in Georgia.Women's health (London, England)Article
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Abstract
This study characterized the perspectives of Karen refugee women in Buffalo, NY, their medical providers, and Karen interpreters/doulas on perinatal care for Karen women in resettlement. In-depth qualitative interviews with Karen women (14), Karen doulas/interpreters and key informants (8), and medical providers (6) were informed by the social contextual model and focused on women's questions about and opinions of perinatal care in Buffalo and on providers' experiences caring for Karen patients. Karen women expressed gratitude for and understanding of perinatal care in Buffalo, and providers described Karen patients as agreeable but shy. Karen doulas offered an alternative view that exposed women's many questions and concerns, and described how doula training empowered them as patients' advocates. Low self-efficacy, trauma histories, and cultural expectations may contribute to Karen women's seeming agreeability. Doulas/interpreters possess insider knowledge of women's concerns and facilitate communication between patients and the care team.
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