ArticleThe Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres2025
Anti-Black Medical Gaslighting in Healthcare: Experiences of Black Women in Canada.
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- Algorithmic gaslighting in healthcare: mechanisms, harms, and epistemic injustice in context.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2026Article
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- Sociocultural and Structural Determinants of Black Maternal Mental Health: A Scoping Review.Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) · 2026Article
- A world view: Considerations of sociocultural diversity in the study of subjective cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Review
- Medical Gaslighting in Gastroenterology: A Narrative Review From Pediatric and Adult Practice.Gastro hep advances · 2026Review
- Comfort in a cross-sector care delivery model to address birth inequities: Learnings from San Francisco's Pregnancy Village.PloS one · 2026Article
- 'Aint We Women?' A Narrative Review of Intensive and Acute Care Experiences of Black Women Through an Intersectional Lens.Nursing in critical care · 2026Review
- Race-Related Stress as a Driver of Postpartum Depression Among a Sample of Black Mothers.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A Natural Language Processing Approach to Identify Negative Patient Descriptors in Electronic Health Records for Maternal Care.Applied clinical informatics · 2025Article
- Trauma and Activism: Using a Postcolonial Feminist Lens to Understand the Experiences of Service Providers Who Support Racialized Immigrant Women's Mental Health and Wellbeing.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Experiences of Care and Gaslighting in Patients With Vulvovaginal Disorders.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Medical gaslighting: navigating patient-clinician mistrust in healthcare.Frontiers in health services · 2025Article
- Racial/ethnic disparities in pain among Canadian adults.Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur · 2024Article
- Who cares for Black women in health and health care: Reimagining the strong Black woman trope to advance Black women's health equity.Women's health (London, England)Article
- Recent obstetrical and gynaecological care experiences and their sociodemographic and mental health correlates: A latent class analysis.Women's health (London, England)Article
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Abstract
BackgroundStereotype about Black people contribute to nurses and healthcare providers gaslighting and dismissing of their health concerns. Despite the popularity of the term medical gaslighting in mainstream literature, few studies have explored the experiences of Black women during pregnancy and childbirth.PurposeThis paper aims to provide an in-depth insight into Black women's experiences of anti-Black medical gaslighting when accessing care during pregnancy and childbirth.MethodsUtilizing qualitative methods, we conducted 24 semi-structured interviews with Black women in the Greater Toronto Area. We used thematic analysis to ground the data analysis and to generate insight into Black women's experiences.ResultsThree overarching themes: 1) Not Being Understood: Privileging of Medical Knowledge Contributing to the Downplaying of Health Concerns, 2) Not Being Believed: Stereotypes Contributing to Dismissive Healthcare Encounters and 3) Listen to Us: Turning off the Cycle of Medical Gaslighting. These themes highlight ways anti-Black medical gaslighting manifests in Black women's healthcare encounters to create differential access to treatment and care.ConclusionsAnti-Black medical gaslighting contributes to differential access to treatment and care. Improving equitable access to treatment and care must involve addressing structural and epistemic biases in healthcare and fostering a culture of listening to humanize the experience of illness.
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