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Primary healthcare providers' attitudes and beliefs about the menopause-related care needs of women who have migrated from low- and middle-income countries to Australia.
- Source :
- Australian Journal of Primary Health; 2020, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p88-94, 7p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Health behaviour during midlife is linked to health outcomes in older age. Primary healthcare providers (PHCPs) are ideally placed to provide health-promoting information opportunistically to women in midlife. The aim of this study was to explore PHCPs views about the menopause-related care needs of migrant women from low- and middle-income countries and what they perceive as barriers and enablers for providing this. Of the 139 PHCPs who responded to an anonymous online survey, less than one-third (29.9%) routinely offered menopause-related information during consultations with migrant women. Most agreed that short appointments times (70.8%), lack of culturally and linguistically appropriate menopause information (82.5%) and lack of confidence in providing menopause-related care (32.5%) are barriers for providing comprehensive menopause-related care to migrant women. To overcome these, a menopause-specific Medicare item number and a one-stop website with health information in community languages were suggested. These findings suggest that menopause-related care is not routinely offered by PHCPs to migrant women from low- and middle- income countries and that their capacity to do this may be improved with adequate educational and structural support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- IMMIGRANTS
CONFIDENCE
CULTURE
HEALTH
HEALTH education
HEALTH promotion
LINGUISTICS
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL appointments
MEDICAL needs assessment
MEDICAL referrals
MENOPAUSE
NURSES
PHYSICIAN-patient relations
PRIMARY health care
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH funding
INFORMATION resources
CROSS-sectional method
HEALTH literacy
PHYSICIANS' attitudes
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
MIDDLE-income countries
LOW-income countries
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14487527
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Australian Journal of Primary Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 141802682
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1071/PY19132