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Treatment Barriers Confronted By African American Women In Past Abusive Relationships, Akhirah Shahidah Lewis
Treatment Barriers Confronted By African American Women In Past Abusive Relationships, Akhirah Shahidah Lewis
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a widespread problem that impacts 5.3 million women annually in the United States, and African American women experience IPV at a 35% rate higher than Caucasian women and 2.5 times higher than other races. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to examine the treatment barriers confronted by African American women in past abusive relationships. This research addressed the extent to which IPV affected African American women regarding the challenges resulting from IPV, the relevant impacts, and the treatment barriers. The ecological systems theory developed by Bronfenbrenner in 1979 was used as the theoretical …
Health Care Providers’ Responses To Fibroid Prevalence Among African American Women, Sadio Noni Green
Health Care Providers’ Responses To Fibroid Prevalence Among African American Women, Sadio Noni Green
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
African American women are disproportionately affected by fibroids, and many of them have reported health care experiences of discrimination, biases, and differential care that have affected their overall health significantly. African American women are less likely to receive necessary clinical services and often choose not to seek professional help for psychological symptoms. Discriminating experiences and the suppression of internal struggles has resulted in African American women coping independently with loneliness, anxiety, and depression. There is a need for health care providers to analyze their care management of African American women’s fibroid concerns and to provide interactions and interventions that focus …
Impact Of Incarceration On The Maternal Identities Of African American Women, Shameka Roshe Davis
Impact Of Incarceration On The Maternal Identities Of African American Women, Shameka Roshe Davis
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
There are minimal studies that have analyzed the impact and consequences of multiple incarcerations among African American mothers regarding their maternal identity and relationships. With this study, how African American women perceive the impact of their multiple incarcerations, relationships with their children, ability to parent their children, and how they negotiate their own maternal identity was examined. This study was completed in Las Vegas, Nevada and involved a multiple case study format and sample of 12 African American women who have experienced multiple incarcerations and have already been released from prison. Perspectives of participants were examined through a sequence of …