Barriers to postpartum health and opinions on a postpartum peer navigator program amongst refugee women resettled in California
Refugee women encounter challenges with contraception and mental health care postpartum exacerbated by language barriers and difficulties with interpreter use. There is interest in language concordant postpartum peer navigation as tool to mitigating these challenges.
Authors
- Amina Sheik Mohamed
- Ruth Tadesse
- Sarah Alsamman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9865-041X)
- Sheila K. Mody (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8705-7362)
- Khatira Sarferaz
Institutions
- University of California San Diego (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Published
- 2025-03-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-025-07479-2
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.61
Funders
- National Institutes of Health