Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
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Womens Health Issues · Mar 2020
Gynecologic Care for Women With Physical Disabilities: A Qualitative Study of Patients and Providers.
Women with physical disabilities have unmet gynecologic care needs, including disparities in cancer screening and contraceptive care, when compared with women without physical disabilities. Our objective was to qualitatively assess provider and patient perspectives regarding barriers to gynecologic health care for women with physical disabilities. ⋯ Providers were motivated to provide quality care for women with disabilities, but encountered systems and training barriers. Patients and providers had concordant impressions of barriers that influenced equitable and patient-centered care, with structural barriers, including a lack of accessible space, closely related to perceptions of health care inequity between women with and without physical disabilities.