Maria Fernanda Tapia, Hebah Daradkeh, Atenas Bustamante, Emily Marie Jones, Sonia Y Treminio, Marvee Turk, Mikyla Rata, Barbara Salazar, Ainaz Dory Barkhordarzadeh, Alyssa Caitlin Bautista, Laura Herrera Gomez, Greta L Davis, William Magee, Naikhoba C O Munabi, Allyn Auslander
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Unveiling Patient Perspectives: A Multinational Cross-Sectional Analysis of Patient Experiences Undergoing Cleft Care by All-Women Surgical Teams.
Background: Although women provide approximately 75% of healthcare globally, they are underrepresented in healthcare leadership, surgery, and anesthesia. Patient- provider gender concordance has been shown to improve patient experience in high-income settings; however, patients in low-and middle-income countries often lack the opportunity to choose the gender of their provider and there is a paucity of literature on the importance of women healthcare providers in these settings.
Aim: To assess the experiences and provider gender preferences of patients with cleft and their caregivers before and after receiving care from an all-women surgical team in a Women in Medicine (WIM) surgical program.
Methods: This cross-sectional study is based on an anonymous survey administered to patients 15 years or older or their caregivers after receiving care from an all-women surgical team during four distinct cleft surgery programs in Morocco, Peru, Malawi, and the Philippines throughout 2022. Analysis included quantitative, descriptive statistics, chi-squared and f-tests.
Results: Before the program, 20% of participants had never received care from women physicians and only 35% preferred women as their healthcare provider. After the program, 66% preferred women as their healthcare provider (p<0.001) with the highest proportion in Morocco (90%) and lowest in Malawi and the Philippines (55%). Across all education levels, most participants preferred women after the program (64%) and 98% were satisfied or more than satisfied with the care received. The three most influential characteristics for preferring women were their understanding, patience, and communication.
Conclusion: Participation in the WIM program provided some patients with their first opportunity to experience receiving care from a woman. This exposure may influence their preference for a healthcare provider, which has been shown to enhance patient experience. Programs like this are imperative to increasing visibility of women in surgical and healthcare leadership roles, improving patient experience, and increasing access to care.
期刊介绍:
Efficient and successful modern healthcare depends on a growing group of professionals working together as an interdisciplinary team. However, many forces shape the delivery of healthcare; changes are being driven by the markets, transformations in concepts of health and wellbeing, technology and research and discovery. Dynamic leadership will guide these necessary transformations. The Journal of Healthcare Leadership is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal focusing on leadership for the healthcare professions. The publication strives to amalgamate current and future healthcare professionals and managers by providing key insights into leadership progress and challenges to improve patient care. The journal aspires to inform key decision makers and those professionals with ambitions of leadership and management; it seeks to connect professionals who are engaged in similar endeavours and to provide wisdom from those working in other industries. Senior and trainee doctors, nurses and allied healthcare professionals, medical students, healthcare managers and allied leaders are invited to contribute to this publication