Women's Awareness in ReproDuctive 'Aafiya (WARDA): a community-based participatory research protocol for co-designing and evaluating reproductive health resources for Muslim women in Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Muslim women in Australia encounter substantial reproductive health disparities. Reasons include intersecting barriers, including distinct demographic features, modesty and privacy concerns, recency of migration, stigma, discrimination, distrust of health systems, fatalistic health beliefs and lack of culturally appropriate health services. In published literature, community-based participatory research (CBPR) has been used in health promotion in hardly reached Muslim populations along with culturally and/or religiously tailored health promotion programmes to disseminate health messages in mosque settings. Despite positive evidence internationally, mosque-based reproductive health programmes remain largely unexplored in Australia. The Women's Awareness in ReproDuctive

SUBMITTER: Hossain S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12519681 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature