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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 …