1. Attitudes among working professionals toward immigrants and refugees living in Ecuador: Impacts on health and well‐being.
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Dressel, Anne, Falconí, Elízabeth, Luft, Heidi, Hawkins, Maren, Noboa, Hugo, Betancourt, Óscar, Sedar, Alexandria, and Shedlin, Michele G.
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MALNUTRITION ,ATTITUDE (Psychology) ,DISCRIMINATION (Sociology) ,HEALTH status indicators ,HUMAN rights ,IMMIGRANTS ,INFORMED consent (Medical law) ,INTERVIEWING ,MASS media ,PHENOMENOLOGY ,RESEARCH methodology ,MEDICAL personnel ,MENTAL health ,NONPROFIT organizations ,POLICE psychology ,SEX work ,REFUGEES ,STATISTICAL sampling ,PSYCHOLOGICAL stress ,QUALITATIVE research ,GOVERNMENT policy ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,WELL-being ,HUMAN research subjects ,PATIENT selection ,FOOD security ,COLLEGE teacher attitudes ,DATA analysis software ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
Objective: To explore attitudes toward immigrants and refugees living in Ecuador. Design and Measures: A transnationalism framework informed this qualitative study, which utilized a semi‐structured interview guide to elicit responses from participants about their attitudes toward immigrants and refugees. Interviews were conducted in Spanish, audio‐taped, transcribed, coded, and analyzed in Spanish to identify emergent themes. Demographic data were analyzed using SPSS. Sample: Participants (n = 50) were recruited from five sectors that interact with refugees: health care, the press, the police, nongovernmental organizations, and education. Fifty interviews were conducted with adults in Quito, Ecuador, in 2017. Results: Participants reported concerns about the health and well‐being of immigrants and refugees, expressed a willingness to assist them, but within limits, noted discrimination and bias against refugees, and cited social policies and human rights as factors that influenced their attitudes. Conclusions: Our findings indicate that immigrants and refugees face challenges which impact their health and well‐being, according to participants in the study. Social policies can influence attitudes, but are also affected by rapidly shifting immigration patterns. Migration flows in South America is an under‐studied area of research, with opportunity for further public health nursing inquiry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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