Exploring the impact on Aboriginal women of living with chronic disease

Aboriginal women are frequently called upon to support their families and other community members. At times, such supporting roles can be burdensome for these women. Many Aboriginal women live with chronic conditions. We explored the ways in which the women’s caring roles impacted on how they maintained their own health.

Output(s)

Qualitative study of psychosocial factors impacting on Aboriginal women’s management of chronic disease

Type

Journal article

Authors

A. Eades, M. L. Hackett, H. Liu, A. Brown, J. Coffin & A. Cass

Publisher

International Journal for Equity in Health

Publication date

2020

Rights notice

Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.

File

s12939_019_1110_3.pdf

Link

https://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12939-019-1110-3

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Community / Language group(s)

Project contact(s)

Dr Anne-Marie Eades

a.eades@unsw.edu.au

Researcher(s)

Dr Anne-Marie Eades

Supporting partner(s)

Complete

Yes

Start date

Not listed

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Topic(s)

Closing the Gap focus

Funder(s)

Organisation(s)

Indigenous involvement

Indigenous involvement notes

Dr Eades is a Noongar woman from WA and a descendant of a Wiilman father and Minang mother. Dr Eades’ research interests relate to the role of psychosocial factors in chronic disease and building resilience in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.

AE is an Aboriginal woman, registered nurse with a Doctor of Philosophy. AE had an existing professional or personal relationship with each of the AMSs before the commencement of any negotiations, consultations or agreement to conduct research at their service. HL, medically trained with a PhD, assisted with the coding; AB and JC are both leading Aboriginal researchers and AB is also a medically trained doctor. MH, HL and AC are non-Aboriginal researchers with medical and/or epidemiology backgrounds who conduct research in collaboration with AMSs and Aboriginal people.

A purposive sampling approach was used to select participants for this study. Women were eligible if they identified as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander; had been diagnosed with diabetes, CKD or CVD; and were attending one of four urban, rural or remote Aboriginal Medical Service (AMSs) in two states and one territory in Australia between May and October 2014.

Exploring the impact on Aboriginal women of living with chronic disease

Output(s)

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