Effects of ethnic attributes on the quality of family planning services in Lima, Peru: a randomized crossover trial.

ABSTRACT: Most studies reporting ethnic disparities in the quality of healthcare come from developed countries and rely on observational methods. We conducted the first experimental study to evaluate whether health providers in Peru provide differential quality of care for family planning services, based on the indigenous or mestizo (mixed ethnoracial ancestry) profile of the patient. In a crossover randomized controlled trial conducted in 2012, a sample of 351 out of the 408 public health establishments in Metropolitan Lima, Peru were randomly assigned to receive unannounced simulated patients enacting indigenous and mestizo profiles (sequence-1) or mestizo and then indigenous profiles (sequence-2), with a five week wash-out period. Both ethnic profiles used the same scripted scenario for seeking c

SUBMITTER: Planas ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4324646 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature