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. 2023 Mar 1;66(1):110-123.
doi: 10.1097/GRF.0000000000000761. Epub 2022 Dec 26.

Antibias Efforts in United States Maternity Care: A Scoping Review of the Publicly Funded Health Equity Intervention Pipeline

Sarah B Garrett  1 , Anjali Walia  2 , Fiona Miller  2 , Peggy Tahir  3 , Linda Jones  4 , Julie Harris  4 , Breezy Powell  4 , Brittany Chambers  5 , Melissa A Simon  6
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Antibias Efforts in United States Maternity Care: A Scoping Review of the Publicly Funded Health Equity Intervention Pipeline

Sarah B Garrett et al. Clin Obstet Gynecol. .

Abstract

Antibias training is increasingly identified as a strategy to reduce maternal health disparities. Evidence to guide this work is limited. We conducted a community-guided scoping review to characterize new antibias research. Four of 508 projects met our criteria: US-based, publicly funded, initiated from January 1, 2018 to June 30, 2022, and featuring an intervention to reduce bias or racism in maternal health care providers. Training was embedded in multicomponent interventions in 3 projects, limiting its evaluation as a stand-alone intervention. Major public funders have sponsored few projects to advance antibias training research in maternal health. More support is needed to develop a rigorous and scalable evidence base.

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Declaration of Interest

No authors have conflicts of interest to declare. In the spirit of full transparency, we report that two of the coauthors (Chambers, Simon) are principal investigators of projects that appear in the scoping review. We have taken multiple steps to minimize bias in our review and to ensure the description of their studies are similar in length and tone to the other described studies.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Flow diagram of grant-funded project selection & review
Note. Figure is adapted from PRISMA. For intermediary steps in the review where independent coders did not experience full agreement, we present the mean and range of projects identified by the two coders.
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