ArticleEuropean journal of midwifery2022
Counselling for prenatal anomaly screening to migrant women in the Netherlands: An interview study of primary care midwives' perceived barriers with client-midwife communication.
Article in European journal of midwifery, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.
- Midwives' perceptions of communication at antenatal care using a bilingual digital dialog support tool- a qualitative study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Let this be a safe place: a qualitative study into midwifery care for forcibly displaced women in the Netherlands.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Pregnancy outcomes of forced migrants in the Netherlands: A national registry-based study.Journal of migration and health · 2024Article
- Suboptimal factors in maternal and newborn care for refugees: Lessons learned from perinatal audits in the Netherlands.PloS one · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
introductionLarge ethnic inequalities exist in the prenatal screening offer, counselling, informed decision-making, and uptake of prenatal anomaly tests. More insight into midwives' experiences with offering prenatal counselling to migrant women may provide better insight into the origins and consequences of these ethnic inequalities.
methodsWe conducted interviews with 12 midwives certified as counsellors for prenatal anomaly screening for women they identified as migrants. Interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis.
resultsMidwives reported most difficulties in communicating with women of 'non-western migrant background', which include first- and second-generation migrants from Africa, Latin-America, Asia, and Turkey. They experienced barriers in communication related to linguistics, health literacy, sociocultural and religious differences, with midwife stereotyping affecting all three aspects of counselling: health education, decision-making support, and the client-midwife relation. Health education was difficult because of language barriers and low health-literacy of clients, decision-making support was hampered by sociocultural and religious midwife-client differences, and client-midwife relations were under pressure due to sociocultural and religious midwife-client differences and midwife stereotyping.
conclusionsBarriers to optimal communication seem to contribute to suboptimal counselling, especially for women of 'non-western migrant background'. Client-midwife communication thus potentially adds to the ethnic disparities observed in the offer of and informed decision-making about prenatal anomaly screening in the Netherlands. The quality of prenatal counselling for women from all ethnic backgrounds might be improved by addressing linguistic, health literacy, sociocultural and religious barriers in future training and continuing education of prenatal counsellors.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.