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'They're more like ordinary stroppy British women': attitudes and expectations of maternity care professionals to UK-born ethnic minority women

  • Shuby Puthussery
    ,
  • Katherine Twamley
    ,
  • Seeromanie Harding
    ,
  • Judith Mirsky
    ,
  • Maurina Baron
    ,
  • Alison Macfarlane
Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Abstract

To explore the attitudes and expectations of maternity care professionals to UK-born ethnic minority mothers.Qualitative in-depth interviews with 30 professionals from eight NHS maternity units in England that provide services for large proportions of women of black Caribbean, black African, Indian, Pakistani and Irish descent.Conclusion: Professionals appeared to equate the needs of UK-born ethnic minority women with those of white English women. Overall, this has positive implications for care provision. Despite this, specific behavioural expectations and unconscious stereotypical views were evident and have the potential to affect clinical practice.

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Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 195-201

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Journal of Health Services Research and Policy (Volume 13, Issue 4)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/10/2008

Publication status

Published - 01/10/2008

ISSN

1355-8196

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/250602
  • Scopus: 55949125938

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