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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. 26:88
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- CSIRO Publishing, 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.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
030503 health policy & services
Health Policy
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Primary health care
Health literacy
Population health
medicine.disease
Menopause
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Health promotion
Family medicine
Health care
Community health
medicine
Health education
030212 general & internal medicine
0305 other medical science
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14487527
- Volume :
- 26
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Australian Journal of Primary Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........cb024b63c0e979a760a3defc803a84a8