ReviewTrauma, violence & abuse2023
Intimate Partner Violence and Barriers to Help-Seeking Among Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Immigrant Women: A Qualitative Metasynthesis of Global Research.
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69 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 166 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions addressing violence against women in health services: An overview of systematic reviews regarding barriers and facilitators to implementation.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2026Pooled it
- Reproductive Coercion and Abuse Among Forcibly Displaced Populations Worldwide: Evidence from a Systematic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2026Pooled it
- Factors affecting women's disclosure of domestic abuse and healthcare professionals' preparedness to identify and respond: a systematic literature review.Frontiers in global women's health · 2026Pooled it
- Increasing familial engagement in family violence services: a systematically conducted realist review of barriers and facilitators.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Lessons From Canadian Judgments: The Consideration of Culture in Intimate Partner Violence Legal Cases Involving Asian Canadians.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2023Pooled it
- A Successful Sexual Assault Resistance Program Also Reduced Intimate Partner Violence.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2025Trial
- Effects of a clinic-based reproductive empowerment intervention on proximal outcomes of contraceptive use, self-efficacy, attitudes, and awareness and use of survivor services: a cluster-controlled trial in Nairobi, Kenya.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2023Trial
- "I Will Never Be Enough Because My Skin Color Isn't Right": Structural Racism and Healthcare Access Following Nonfatal Strangulation Among Black Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Intersectional Barriers to Protection: Service Providers' Perspectives on Supporting Black, Latino, and Immigrant Male Victims of Female-perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Exploring the Perspectives About Barriers and Facilitators to Accessing and Engaging With Domestic Violence Services Among Turkish Immigrant Women: A Photovoice Study.Violence against women · 2026Article
- A Decision-Making Framework for Selecting Intimate Partner Violence Measures in Health Research.Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing · 2026Review
- An Updated and Revised Dyadic Model of Partner Violence.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Introducing a Chatbot to Support Victim-Survivors of Domestic Abuse: Victim-Survivor Perspectives.Violence against women · 2026Article
- "They don't care": The implications of systemic racism on Black women's help-seeking during the COVID-19 pandemic.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2026Article
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- Initial organizational practices and contextual factors related to brain injury screening and referral in intimate partner violence serving community- based organizations.Research square · 2026Article
- Toward a comprehensive, survivor-centered measure of barriers and facilitators to sexual assault services: findings from cognitive interviews.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Black and Minoritized Women's Experiences of Specialist Domestic Violence Services in the United Kingdom (UK): A Scoping Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2026Article
- Navigating perinatal mental health care: migrant women's experiences of support pathways and the role of digital resources.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2026Article
- Help-Seeking by Women and Men After Experiencing Any IPV, Including Physical, Sexual, and Psychological IPV, Controlling Behaviors, or Economic Abuse: A Population-Based Study From New Zealand.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2026Article
9 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
It is well known that victims of intimate partner violence experience numerous barriers to leaving abusive relationships. For ethnic minority and immigrant women these barriers are significantly exacerbated. This metasynthesis explored barriers to help-seeking as experienced by Black, Asian, minority ethnic and immigrant women with experience of intimate partner violence. A review of worldwide literature published in English in peer-reviewed journals on this topic from 2000 to July 2020 produced 2597 relevant articles. After removing duplicates and applying the exclusion criteria, a total of 47 articles were selected for inclusion in the review. The synthesis found that these women faced additional barriers as a result of institutional racism, immigration laws, culture and religion, and issues of cultural competence, and lack of diversity within frontline services. Such barriers, from a range of formal and informal resources, services and other mechanisms of support, served to exacerbate feelings of fear, threat, isolation and powerlessness. The barriers were also further weaponised by perpetrators in order to extend their reign of terror and control. As a result, women were caught in a double-bind - stay in an abusive relationship or face further threats and consequences if they attempted to leave. Whilst our search criteria focused on barriers to help-seeking, many of the papers included in our synthesis also explored facilitators to help-seeking, which are included in our findings and overwhelmingly relate to informal support from females.
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