Table 1.
Authors and year | Study type | Types of participants | Types of primary care setting | Characteristics of women included in the study or with whom primary care providers interacteda | Outcomes of quality assessment | ||
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Country of residence | Women’s country of birth | Women’s background | |||||
Joe et al. (2020) | Case-vignettes | Women | Unspecified | United States | Not specified | Latina and Black | High qualityb |
Ashbourne & Baobaid (2019) | Review and critique | Women | Unspecified | United States and Canada | Not specified | Arab | Moderate qualityb |
Briones-Vozmediano et al. (2019) | Qualitative study | Family doctor, midwife, social worker, sexologist and paediatrician. | Unspecified | Spain | Spain | Roma | High qualityb |
Migrant & Refugee Women’s Health Partnership (2019) | Competency standard framework | Not applicable | Unspecified | Findings applicable to women
from culturally diverse backgrounds [Framework developed in Australia] |
All criteria metc | ||
Nikparvar (2019) | Qualitative study | Therapists | Unspecified | United States | Iran | Women of immigrant backgrounds | High qualityb |
Spangaro et al. (2019) | Qualitative study | Women | Antenatal care setting | Australia | Australia | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander | High qualityb |
Briones-Vozmediano et al. (2018) | Qualitative study | Matron, family doctor, sexologist and psychologist. | Unspecified | Spain | Spain | Roma | High qualityb |
Choahan (2018) | Commentary using interviews | General practitioners | Unspecified | Australia | Unspecified | Women of immigrant backgrounds | All criteria metc |
Sabri et al. (2018b) | Qualitative study | Women | Unspecified | United States | Not specified | Asian and Latina women. African immigrant women |
High qualityb |
Alvarez et al. (2018) | Qualitative study | Physicians, nurses, practitioners, midwives, registered nurses, social workers and community health workers | Unspecified | United States | Not specified | Latina and Spanish-speaking immigrant women | High qualityb |
Garnweidner-Holme et al. (2017) | Qualitative study | Women | Antenatal care setting | Norway | Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, Poland and Spain | Iraqi, Turkish, Pakistani, Polish and Spanish | Moderate qualityb |
Vives-Cases et al. (2017) | Qualitative study (Concept mapping study) | Medical physicians and social workers. | Primary healthcare services | Spain | Spain | Roma | High qualityb |
Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (2016) | Evidence-based factsheet | Women | Unspecified | Australia | Unspecified | Women of immigrant and refugee backgrounds | All criteria metc |
Northwest Metropolitan Region Primary Care Partnership (2016) | Clinical guidelines | Not applicable | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and women of immigrant and refugee backgrounds | All criteria metc | |||
Kalapac (2016) | Evaluation report | Professionals providing family violence–related legal and social services; staff implementing family violence work at a hospital. | Unspecified | Australia | Unspecified | Culturally and linguistically diverse women whose first language is not English | All criteria metc |
Smyth (2016) | Qualitative study | Health visitors | Unspecified | England | Pakistan | Pakistani | High qualityb |
Banks (2015) | Qualitative study (Hermeneutic phenomenology) | Counsellors | Unspecified | United States | United States | African American | High qualityb |
Clarke and Boyle (2014) | Discussion paper | Not applicable | Antenatal care setting | Australia | Australia | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women | All criteria metc |
Taft (2014)/ The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners | Guidelines on responding to family violence in primary care settings (Group D*) | General practitioners | General practices | Australia | Unspecified | Women of immigrant and refugee backgrounds | All criteria metc |
Usta et al. (2014) | Qualitative study | Physicians | General practices | Lebanon | Lebanon | Lebanese | Moderate qualityb |
Messing et al. (2013) | Quantitative study | Women | Not specified | United States | Spain | Spanish immigrant and refugee women | Moderate qualityb |
Shamu et al. (2013) | Qualitative study | Women; midwives |
Maternity care setting | Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | Shona | Moderate qualityb |
Centre for Culture Ethnicity and Health (2012, 2012a; 2012b; 2012c; 2012d; 2012e, 2012f) | Evidence based tip sheets | All seven
tip sheets were developed using a range of published
evidence – with a focus on enabling culturally competent
healthcare response.[ Tip Sheets developed in Australia] |
All criteria metc | ||||
Usta et al. (2012) | Qualitative study (Phenomenology | Women | Physician’s clinics | Lebanon | Lebanon | Lebanese | Moderate qualityb |
Walker et al. (2014) | Book chapter | Not applicable | Mental health are practices | Australia | Australia | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander | All criteria metc |
Aguilar (2011) | Qualitative study (Phenomenology) | Women | Counselling | United States | Unspecified | Latina | High qualityb |
Chibber et al. (2011) | Qualitative study | Physician | Physician’s clinic | India | India/Indian | High qualityb | |
Zakar et al. (2011) | Qualitative study | Women | Physician’s clinic | Pakistan | Pakistan | Pakistani | Moderate qualityb |
Kulwicki et al. (2010) | Qualitative study | Women | Unspecified | United States | Unspecified | Arab | Moderate qualityb |
Wrangle et al. (2008) | Quantitative study | Primary care providers | Primary care clinic in an urban hospital | United States | Spanish language | Latina | Moderate qualityb |
Hindin (2006) | Naturalistic inquiry | Midwives | Unspecified | Findings relevant to women from culturally diverse backgrounds | Moderate qualityb | ||
Immigrant Women’s Domestic Violence Service (2006) | Qualitative study | Women | Rural services | Australia | Unspecified | Immigrant and refugee women | All criteria metc |
Puri (2005) | Case study | Women; doctors |
Unspecified | United States and Britain | Unspecified | South Asian | High qualityb |
Thompson (2005) | Discussion paper | Not applicable | Unspecified | Findings relevant to women from
culturally diverse backgrounds [United States of America] |
Low qualityb | ||
Mehra (2004) | Discussion paper | Not applicable | Dentists | Findings relevant to women from culturally diverse backgrounds | Moderate qualityb | ||
de Mendoza (2001) | Discussion paper on principles and practice | Not applicable | Nurses | United States of America | Unspecified | Latina women born in the US and immigrant and refugee Latina women | Low qualityb |
Davidhizar et al. (1998) | Theoretical application of a transcultural model of care | Not applicable | Unspecified | Findings applicable to women
from culturally diverse backgrounds [United States of America] |
Moderate qualityb | ||
Campbell and Campbell (1996) | Discussion paper | No applicable | Unspecified | Findings applicable to women from culturally diverse backgrounds | Moderate qualityb |
Note. aFor studies where the types of participants are specified as primary care providers-Characteristics of women-column of the table refers to women to whom primary care providers delivered family violence–related care.
bQuality assessed using CCAT.
cQuality assessed using AACODS.