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- Title
"When Is Health Care Actually Going to Be Care?" The Lived Experience of Family Planning Care Among Young Black Women.
- Authors
Logan, Rachel G.; Daley, Ellen M.; Vamos, Cheryl A.; Louis-Jacques, Adetola; Marhefka, Stephanie L.
- Abstract
While family planning care (FPC) visits may serve as opportunities to address gaps in knowledge and access to limited resources, young Black women may also face structural barriers (i.e., racism, discrimination, bias) to engaging in care due to the intersections of racial identity, age, and socioeconomic status. Findings from interviews with 22 Black women, ages 18 to 29 years, about the lived experience of FPC highlighted dynamic patient–provider encounters. Women's narratives uncovered the following essences: silence around sex impedes engagement in care, patient–provider racial concordance as protection from harm, providers as a source of discouragement and misinformation, frustration as a normative experience, decision making excludes discussion and deliberation, medical mistrust is pervasive and a part of Black consciousness, and meaningful and empathic patient–provider encounters are elusive. Health systems should prioritize developing and enhancing young Black women's relationship with FPC providers to help mitigate persistent inequities that perpetuate disadvantage among this population.
- Subjects
SOUTHERN States; FAMILY planning; PSYCHOLOGY of Black people; RACISM; CONTRACEPTION; HEALTH services accessibility; EMPATHY; FRUSTRATION; ATTITUDE (Psychology); MEDICAL care; PATIENTS; HEALTH status indicators; INTERVIEWING; CULTURAL pluralism; GROUP identity; SOCIAL stigma; EXPERIENCE; PATIENTS' attitudes; PHENOMENOLOGY; QUALITATIVE research; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; PSYCHOLOGY of women; HEALTH attitudes; RESEARCH funding; DECISION making; AT-risk people; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; HEALTH; INFORMATION resources; COMMUNICATION; PATIENT-professional relations; HEALTH planning; HEALTH promotion; ADOLESCENCE
- Publication
Qualitative Health Research, 2021, Vol 31, Issue 6, p1169
- ISSN
1049-7323
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1049732321993094