Experiences of African immigrant and refugee women with prenatal and maternal health care services and treatment adherence in Winnipeg, Manitoba
Bibliographic record
Abstract
• Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) in partnership with a community organization, Sexuality Education Resource Centre Manitoba (SERC). • African immigrant and refugee woman access maternity services through programs, clinics, and family doctors. • Some African immigrant and refugee women experienced barriers such as language differences and lack of social support when seeking prenatal and maternal services. • African immigrant and refugee woman’s experiences show how systemic oppression/racism may be occurring in the healthcare system. The requirements for adequate perinatal and maternal health care services for African women in Canada continue to rise, given the increased number of African immigrants and refugees coming to the country. The study had three objectives: (1) to explore how East and west African immigrant and refugee women living in Manitoba access perinatal and maternal health care services; (2) describe their interactions with health care providers; and (3) understand how their experience impacts their treatment adherence. The study was guided by Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) in partnership with a community organization, Sexuality Education Resource Centre Manitoba (SERC). Purposive sampling methods was used to recruit 16 women. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and intersectionality guided the analysis of the data. The participants shared accessing these services through the program Healthy Mom and Me, clinics, and family doctors. Some women experienced barriers such as language differences and lack of social support. Several themes emerged from the analysis: it was stressful; left hanging; “they are always and no one explains”; and faith and culture convictions. Five women reported that racism/discrimination or structural barriers affected their experiences. The women also shared that some recommendations were not respectful or relevant to their traditional/cultural way of caring for a newborn. The study offered insights into the lived experiences of African immigrant and refugee women accessing prenatal and maternal health care service. The study also provided insights on ways in which systemic oppression/racism may be occurring in the healthcare system.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".