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"When Is Health Care Actually Going to Be Care?" The Lived Experience of Family Planning Care Among Young Black Women

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ID4643643
AuthorsRachel G Logan (0000-0001-7686-5754, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA, corresponding author), Ellen M Daley (0000-0003-3020-295X, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA), Cheryl A Vamos (0000-0003-0227-514X, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA), Adetola Louis-Jacques (0000-0002-2119-9739, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA), Stephanie L Marhefka (0000-0001-7708-1521, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA)
Year2021
Volume31
Issue6
Pages1169-1182
Publication date2021-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1049732321993094
PMID33622078
OpenAlexW3133335745
LanguageEN
Citations received35
References cited46

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

Family medicine · Health care · Lived experience · Political science · Psychotherapist · Qualitative research · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Contraception

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