Comfort Tosin Adebayo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4619997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Comfort Tosin Adebayo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Comfort Tosin |
| FAMILY NAME | Adebayo |
| SIGNATURE | ADEBAYO C T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Towson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1288-2296 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gender-Based Violence in the Lives of Somali Women With Refugee Status
Introduction: Gender-based violence (GBV) poses a significant threat to women with refugee status. Methodology: Following our analysis based on a previously published scoping review, we introduce a conceptual framework based on postcolonial feminist theory to inform research, policy, and practice that addresses the unique risk factors faced by Somali women with refugee status experiencing GBV and encountering barriers to care. Result: The framewo…
Experiences of gender-based violence among Somali refugee women
Gender-based violence (GBV) is an all-encompassing term that speaks to acts or threats that may lead to physical, sexual or emotional harm to an individual based on their gender. This paper provides a scoping review of research on gender-based violence among Somali refugee women in different parts of the world. Using the socio-ecological model as a framework, we reviewed 30 empirical studies focusing on some form of GBV among Somali refugee women…
Special Issue on Relational Dialectics Theory
Charting a Research Agenda for Relational Dialectics Theory
I Wanted It to Be Flowers and Sunshine, but That Was Not It at All”
Research on motherhood in family communication scholarship has traditionally focused on White women's experiences in the U.S. Few communication studies have reported the experiences of Black mothers in their findings. However, there is still a dearth of scholarship in studies that centralize the voices of Black mothers. While the paths to becoming a mother might be fairly similar, the experiences of mothers differ based on many factors. African A…
African American Women’s Maternal Healthcare Experiences
Physician-Patient Interactions in Nigeria
Healthcare system in Nigeria has suffered many structural problems, which have impacted healthcare access and delivery. In this study, I explore physician-patient interactions in Nigerian hospitals, with the goal of unveiling its impact of healthcare processes. Using a qualitative narrative framework and in-depth interviews with 22 Nigerians, the study attended to communication dynamics and challenges present in physician-patient relationship in …
Promoting the health of refugee women
The health of refugee women after settlement in a new country, can be adversely or positively affected by individual, interpersonal, community, and organizational factors. While much of the previous literature highlights these factors individually, there is a lack of comprehensive synthesis regarding how the factors interact to influence the health of refugee women. We conducted a thematic analysis in our literature review to elucidate how provid…
Race and Blackness
Effective communication is integral to the patient–provider relationship. Yet, as a result of structural factors that ignore the unique health care needs of different populations of patients who identify as Black—both African American and African immigrants—are confronted with communication challenges during health care seeking encounters. Using cultural safety as a framework, in this article, we thematically review communication challenges speci…
I Wanted It to Be Flowers and Sunshine, but That Was Not It at All”
Research on motherhood in family communication scholarship has traditionally focused on White women's experiences in the U.S. Few communication studies have reported the experiences of Black mothers in their findings. However, there is still a dearth of scholarship in studies that centralize the voices of Black mothers. While the paths to becoming a mother might be fairly similar, the experiences of mothers differ based on many factors. African A…
Charting a Research Agenda for Relational Dialectics Theory
Race and Blackness
Effective communication is integral to the patient–provider relationship. Yet, as a result of structural factors that ignore the unique health care needs of different populations of patients who identify as Black—both African American and African immigrants—are confronted with communication challenges during health care seeking encounters. Using cultural safety as a framework, in this article, we thematically review communication challenges speci…
Physician-Patient Interactions in Nigeria
Healthcare system in Nigeria has suffered many structural problems, which have impacted healthcare access and delivery. In this study, I explore physician-patient interactions in Nigerian hospitals, with the goal of unveiling its impact of healthcare processes. Using a qualitative narrative framework and in-depth interviews with 22 Nigerians, the study attended to communication dynamics and challenges present in physician-patient relationship in …
Promoting the health of refugee women
The health of refugee women after settlement in a new country, can be adversely or positively affected by individual, interpersonal, community, and organizational factors. While much of the previous literature highlights these factors individually, there is a lack of comprehensive synthesis regarding how the factors interact to influence the health of refugee women. We conducted a thematic analysis in our literature review to elucidate how provid…
African American Women’s Maternal Healthcare Experiences
I Wanted It to Be Flowers and Sunshine, but That Was Not It at All”
Research on motherhood in family communication scholarship has traditionally focused on White women's experiences in the U.S. Few communication studies have reported the experiences of Black mothers in their findings. However, there is still a dearth of scholarship in studies that centralize the voices of Black mothers. While the paths to becoming a mother might be fairly similar, the experiences of mothers differ based on many factors. African A…
Experiences of gender-based violence among Somali refugee women
Gender-based violence (GBV) is an all-encompassing term that speaks to acts or threats that may lead to physical, sexual or emotional harm to an individual based on their gender. This paper provides a scoping review of research on gender-based violence among Somali refugee women in different parts of the world. Using the socio-ecological model as a framework, we reviewed 30 empirical studies focusing on some form of GBV among Somali refugee women…
Special Issue on Relational Dialectics Theory
Charting a Research Agenda for Relational Dialectics Theory
Gender-Based Violence in the Lives of Somali Women With Refugee Status
Introduction: Gender-based violence (GBV) poses a significant threat to women with refugee status. Methodology: Following our analysis based on a previously published scoping review, we introduce a conceptual framework based on postcolonial feminist theory to inform research, policy, and practice that addresses the unique risk factors faced by Somali women with refugee status experiencing GBV and encountering barriers to care. Result: The framewo…
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Dialectic (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Health care (3 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)