Community Support Persons and Mitigating Obstetric Racism During Childbirth.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We undertook a study to assess whether presence of community support persons (CSPs), with no hospital affiliation or alignment, mitigates acts of obstetric racism during hospitalization for labor, birth, and immediate postpartum care.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional cohort study, measuring 3 domains of obstetric racism as defined for, by, and with Black birthing people: humanity (violation of safety and accountability, autonomy, communication and information exchange, and empathy); kinship (denial or disruption of community and familial bonds that support Black birthing people); and racism in the form of anti-Black racism and misogynoir (weaponization of societal stereotypes and scripts in service provision that reproduce gendered anti-Black racism in the hosp

SUBMITTER: Lett E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10202510 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature