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Barrier-free communication in maternity care of allophone migrants: BRIDGE study protocol
Journal
Journal of Advanced Nursing
Volume
74
Number
2
Pages / Article-Number
472-481
Mesh terms
Adult; Attitude of Health Personnel; Communication Barriers; Culturally Competent Care, organization & administration; Female; Focus Groups; Humans; Male; Maternal-Child Nursing, organization & administration; Middle Aged; Nurse Midwives, psychology; Nursing Staff, Hospital, psychology; Physicians, psychology; Pregnancy; Pregnant Women, psychology; Qualitative Research; Switzerland; Transients and Migrants, statistics & numerical data
Abstract
To describe communication and access barriers encountered by allophone women of different migration backgrounds in the Swiss maternity care services, from the perspective of users, healthcare professionals and intercultural interpreters.; In addition to the challenges of maternal adjustment, pregnant migrant women must also deal with an unfamiliar health service system. Some must overcome language barriers and the stress of uncertain residence status. Limited access to maternity care increases perinatal morbidity and mortality. Almost 10% of foreigners speak none of Switzerland's official languages. Factors that facilitate or hinder communication between migrant women and perinatal healthcare professionals are under-studied and must be understood if we are to overcome those barriers in clinical practice.; Qualitative exploratory study with quantitative sub-study.; Participants will be drawn from German to speaking regions of Switzerland. We will conduct focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews with users in their own language (Albanian and Tigrinya) and with healthcare professionals and intercultural interpreters (March-June 2016), then perform Thematic Analysis on the data. In the sub-study, midwives will report their experience of using a telephone interpreting service during postnatal home visits in a questionnaire (October 2013-March 2016). Data will be analysed with descriptive statistics.; Our study will reveal patterns in communications between allophone migrant women and healthcare providers and communication barriers. By incorporating multiple perspectives, we will describe the challenges all parties face. Our results will inform those who draft recommendations to improve provision of maternity care to allophone women and their families.; ClinicalTrials.gov ID: BernUAS NCT02695316.
