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The Lived Experience Of Pregnancy As A Black Woman In America: A Descriptive Phenomenological Case Study, Jodie C. Gary, Sharon L. Dormire, Jamil Norman, Idethia S. Harvey Drph

Journal of Interprofessional Practice and Collaboration

PURPOSE: Health disparities in childbearing black women in the United States have continued through multiple decades despite overall improvements in pregnancy-related outcomes for other ethnicities. Pregnancy outcomes for black women include greater risks of maternal mortality, severe morbidity, as well as preterm and low birthweight infants. From a person-centered perspective, the description of the lived experiences of adversity for pregnant black women is missing from the literature. This omission is believed to attribute to the continued health disparities in this population.

METHODS: While the study was originally designed using focus group methodology for data collection for a larger number of …