ArticleSSM. Qualitative research in health2025
Access to and quality of contraceptive healthcare for undocumented immigrant women in California.
Article in SSM. Qualitative research in health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Immigrants have lower rates of contraceptive use compared to non-immigrants. Undocumented immigrants face multiple barriers to healthcare and often experience poor-quality healthcare, yet few studies have examined contraceptive healthcare in this population. This study aimed to explore access to and quality of contraceptive healthcare among undocumented immigrants. Twenty-four in-depth interviews were conducted between April and July 2022 with Asian and Latinx undocumented immigrant women of reproductive age living in California within the United States. Interviews were inductively coded and themes were identified through thematic analysis. Most participants were aged 25-29, had college degrees, and were Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. All participants had ever used some form of contraception including condoms. Access to contraceptive healthcare was primarily impacted by knowledge about contraception, health insurance coverage, and knowledge about using health insurance. Participants who accessed contraceptive healthcare described a range of experiences, including those that were judgmental or dismissive, cursory or impersonal, or person-centered. This study highlights barriers to contraceptive healthcare and aspects of poor-quality contraceptive healthcare among undocumented immigrants, even in a highly-educated sample of mostly DACA recipients living in an inclusive state. Undocumented immigrants with lower socioeconomic status, without the protection of DACA, and living in more exclusive state policy climates may face additional barriers to contraceptive healthcare and worse quality of care. Efforts are needed to improve contraceptive education, consistent health insurance coverage and knowledge, and to ensure person-centered contraceptive healthcare for undocumented immigrants. These efforts will help work towards reproductive justice in this population.
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.