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Coates EE, de Heer R, McLeod A, Porter SC, Hoffman SB. "Shouldn't Nobody Make a Woman do What they Don't Want to do with their Body": Black Women's Reactions to the Supreme Court's Overturn of Roe v. Wade. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities 2024; 11:968-979. [PMID: 36976512 DOI: 10.1007/s40615-023-01577-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2022] [Revised: 11/27/2022] [Accepted: 03/19/2023] [Indexed: 03/29/2023]
Abstract
Black women, particularly those with low-income, are projected to be the most negatively impacted group following the Supreme Court's overturn of Roe v Wade. It is expected that the rate of increase in live births, as well as the rate of maternal mortality, will be steepest for Black women due to high rates of unmet needs for contraception, unintended pregnancies, poverty, barriers to legal abortion access, and systemic racism. Previous research has shown that the legalization of abortion in 1973 significantly improved educational and employment outcomes for Black women, in particular. The current study seeks to assess the perceptions of predominantly under-resourced Black women following the overturning of Roe v Wade. Eighteen Black women participated in one of five focus groups during the summer of 2022 and shared their reactions to the Supreme Court ruling. Using grounded theory, researchers generated the following themes: sexism via forced births, economic implications, and dangers of banned abortions. Based on participants' concerns resulting from the Roe v Wade overturn, policy implications are provided for improving the following systems: safety net, child welfare, and infant and perinatal mental health care.
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- Erica E Coates
- Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
- MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, 2115 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20007, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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Huang L, Huang X, Wang J, Zhang F, Fei Y, Tang J, Wang Y. Factors influencing parent-child relationships in chinese nurses: a cross-sectional study. BMC Nurs 2023; 22:261. [PMID: 37559061 PMCID: PMC10410983 DOI: 10.1186/s12912-023-01413-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2023] [Accepted: 07/21/2023] [Indexed: 08/11/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND With the development of the social economy, the effective coordination of the conflict between work and family has become an urgent problem for most parents. Such conflicts are especially acute in the families of nurses with children. Therefore, a timely understanding of the status quo of the parent-child relationship and associated risk factors among nurses will assist in improving their family harmony and the healthy growth of their children. METHODS A total of 350 nurses with children at a general tertiary hospital in Sichuan Province, China, were interviewed using a structured questionnaire between June 23 and July 9, 2022. The results were analyzed by multiple linear regression using the stepwise method. RESULTS The results showed that the parent-child relationship received a middle-level mean score of 77.74 (SD = 10.77). The factors that influenced the parent-child relationship among nurses included the parents' character type (β = 0.143, P = 0.002), feeling tired due to dealing with patients (β=-0.150, P = 0.002), the nurse-patient relationship (β = 0.137, P = 0.004), the age of older children (β=-0.153, P = 0.001), number of children (β=-0.093, P = 0.041), sleep quality (β = 0.116, P = 0.014), and family adaptability (β = 0.308, P = 0.000); these factors accounted for 31.3% of the variance in parent-child relationships among nurses. CONCLUSION The findings of this study will help policy makers and nursing managers to better understand parent-child relationships in Chinese nurses. The results highlighted the importance of the creation of a family-oriented work environment while paying more attention to the parent-child relationships of nurses who are introverted and have more or older children. After busy workdays, nurses should also be encouraged to participate more in family decision-making and strategic parent-child interactions to avoid negative effects on children caused by work-related emotional exhaustion, physical and mental fatigue, and other reasons. The development of good parent-child relationships may help maintain both their and their children's mental health while enhancing their enthusiasm for work and their professional identity.
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- Lei Huang
- Department of Nursing, West China Hospital, Sichuan University / West China School of Nursing, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, P.R. China
- School of Nursing, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, Hubei, P.R. China
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- Department of Nursing, West China Hospital, Sichuan University / West China School of Nursing, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, P.R. China
- Mental health center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University / West China School of Nursing, Sichuan University, Cheng Du, Si Chuan, P.R. China
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- Department of Nursing, West China Hospital, Sichuan University / West China School of Nursing, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, P.R. China
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- School of Nursing, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, Hubei, P.R. China
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- School of Nursing, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, Hubei, P.R. China
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- Department of Nursing, Dazhou Central Hospital, Dazhou, 635000, Sichuan, P.R. China
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- Department of Nursing, West China Hospital, Sichuan University / West China School of Nursing, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, P.R. China.
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