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- Title
The Relationship between Race-Based Self-Talk among African-American Women and Poor Birth Outcomes.
- Authors
Harrington, Julius L.; Lewis, Marva L.; Brinthaupt, Thomas M.; Turnage, Barbara F.
- Abstract
Although income and education are generally associated with more positive birth outcomes, African American women show poorer birth outcomes regardless of their income or education levels. An unrecognized psychosocial mechanism contributing to racial disparities in poor birth outcomes may be the self-talk of pregnant African American women in response to race-based stressors in their everyday lives. A review of the latest research and implications for childbirth educators on race-based stress, self-talk, and maternal effects on fetal development is presented with a conceptual framework of how race-related self-talk might affect birth outcomes.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BLACK people; LOW birth weight; CHILDBIRTH teachers; CONCEPTUAL structures; EVALUATION of medical care; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY &; psychology; RACE; RACISM; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; VERBAL behavior; SOCIAL capital; SOCIOECONOMIC factors
- Publication
International Journal of Childbirth Education, 2013, Vol 28, Issue 3, p75
- ISSN
0887-8625
- Publication type
Article