A silent burden—prolapse, incontinence, and infertility in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women: A systematic search and narrative review

dc.contributor.authorClarke, Marilyn
dc.contributor.authorWhitson, Nicole
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Corey
dc.contributor.authorRobson, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-18T21:53:00Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.updated2022-11-13T07:17:05Z
dc.description.abstractBackground: Pelvic organ prolapse (POP), urinary incontinence, and infertility are all prevalent conditions associated with considerable reduction in quality of life. As a group, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women may be at higher risk of these conditions, but studies are scarce. Objective: To review the literature pertaining to the epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of these conditions in Indigenous Australian women. Search strategy: Medline, Embase, and Scopus were searched for articles published between 1980 and 2021 pertaining to these conditions in Indigenous Australian women. Selection criteria: Studies that did not directly address the epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of these conditions were excluded. Main results: It was possible to identify only 11 papers dealing with these conditions in Indigenous Australian women. Only one dealt with POP and was a retrospective audit of a health outreach program in the Northern Territory concluding that there was significant underreporting of the condition. Five papers dealt with urinary incontinence and, again, described significant underreporting and poor referral pathways. Five papers reported small studies about infertility, one reporting poor engagement from clinical directors. Conclusion: It was concluded that despite the importance of these conditions, there is almost no body of research and this is an urgent national problem.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn0020-7292en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/316081
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherElsevieren_AU
dc.rights© 2021 International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetricsen_AU
dc.sourceInternational Journal of Gynecology and Obstetricsen_AU
dc.subjectinfertilityen_AU
dc.subjectpelvic organ prolapseen_AU
dc.subjectracismen_AU
dc.subjectsystematic reviewen_AU
dc.subjecturinary incontinenceen_AU
dc.titleA silent burden—prolapse, incontinence, and infertility in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women: A systematic search and narrative reviewen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage274en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage268en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationClarke, Marilyn, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecologyen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationWhitson, Nicole, John Hunter Hospitalen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationWilliams, Corey, Westmead Hospitalen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationRobson, Stephen, College of Health and Medicine, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu4140897@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidRobson, Stephen, u4140897en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor321503 - Reproductionen_AU
local.identifier.absfor320214 - Nephrology and urologyen_AU
local.identifier.absfor450414 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers and babies health and wellbeingen_AU
local.identifier.absseo200509 - Women's and maternal healthen_AU
local.identifier.absseo210302 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status and outcomesen_AU
local.identifier.absseo200204 - Health inequalitiesen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB22626en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume155en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1002/ijgo.13920en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85116550384
local.identifier.thomsonIDWOS:000704532000001
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBya383154en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.elsevier.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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