Necesidades sentidas de salud en mujeres migrantes de una zona básica de salud: estudio cualitativo

Objectives

To know the needs and lack of information on health issues of Maghrebi women.

Subjects, material and method

Design: Qualitative study technique nominal group (TGN). Subjects: 14 North African women from Association for Solidarity and Rapprochement of Cultures (ASAC) from the rural clinic of La Aljorra who knew and understood Spanish, older age, and lived in the town for more than 3 years.

Material and method TGN asks: «What daily health issues for you and your family worry you the most and do you need answers?» Individual reflection and list that were discussed among them, joining the group consensus. Subsequently, they were prioritized individually and a definitive list of their prioritized health needs was made.

Results

Thirty-six percent of the ASAC associates attended. At first, 17 topics were written on health needs for which they wanted a response. The final topics chosen and grouped by them were 6: 1) Contraceptive methods; 2) Relationship problems; 3) Thyroid; 4) How to cure the sciatic nerve?; 5) Anemia and 6) Stress. 70% related to the area of sexuality.

Conclusions

1) Qualitative research is an adequate consensus method to obtain information on little-known topics and directly from the person involved; 2) The Moroccan migrant woman considers information about sexuality and couple relationships very important; 3) Another pathology unknown to them and emerging in the area is thyroid; 4) Stress and its repercussions; 5) Sciatica and its consequences are also important when being agricultural workers.