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Iran J Health Sci 2025, 13(1): 75-84 |
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RezaiAbhari F, Pourbrar F, Yaghoubi T. Investigating Healthcare Workers’ Role in Providing Reproductive and Sexual Healthcare Services in Disasters: A Narrative Review. Iran J Health Sci 2025; 13 (1) :75-84
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URL: http://jhs.mazums.ac.ir/article-1-976-en.html
Traditional and Complementary Medicine Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran. , tyaghubi@gmail.com
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Background and Purpose: It is important to offer reproductive and sexual healthcare services to improve the health of society. However, healthcare personnel lack sufficient knowledge and skills to provide such services in disasters. This study aims to investigate the role of healthcare service providers in delivering reproductive and sexual healthcare services during disasters.
Materials and Methods: This study is a narrative review conducted in five stages: Designing the research question, searching and extracting the related studies, selecting the relevant studies, developing the timetable, summarizing the data and information, and reporting the results. After extracting the keywords through the MeSH database, the studies done in Iran and abroad were checked by searching the databases, including Google Scholar, Scopus, the Cochrane Library, ScienceDirect, PubMed, Web of Science, and UpToDate. We used the different combinations of the following keywords: “Healthcare personnel,” “nurses,” “midwives,” “service providers,” “healthcare providers,” “reproductive healthcare,” “sexual healthcare,” “sexual and reproductive healthcare,” “calamity,” “crisis,” “disaster,” and “emergency” from 2009 to 2024.
Results: Using the search strategy, 403 articles were found, and 10 studies were included in this narrative review. Regarding the reproductive and sexual healthcare services in disasters, four main categories were found: Providing educational and counseling services, planning and providing reproductive healthcare services, providing emergency services in the field of gynecology, obstetrics, and newborn care; and preventing and managing the consequences of sexual violence.
Conclusion: Regarding the many obstacles in providing reproductive healthcare services, this study can be employed to plan, design, and implement some effective interventions for providing the due services. Healthcare service providers can benefit from this review by familiarizing themselves with their role during disasters. It is hoped that the extracted results in the present study can effectively depict the role of healthcare workers in reproductive healthcare in disasters.
Materials and Methods: This study is a narrative review conducted in five stages: Designing the research question, searching and extracting the related studies, selecting the relevant studies, developing the timetable, summarizing the data and information, and reporting the results. After extracting the keywords through the MeSH database, the studies done in Iran and abroad were checked by searching the databases, including Google Scholar, Scopus, the Cochrane Library, ScienceDirect, PubMed, Web of Science, and UpToDate. We used the different combinations of the following keywords: “Healthcare personnel,” “nurses,” “midwives,” “service providers,” “healthcare providers,” “reproductive healthcare,” “sexual healthcare,” “sexual and reproductive healthcare,” “calamity,” “crisis,” “disaster,” and “emergency” from 2009 to 2024.
Results: Using the search strategy, 403 articles were found, and 10 studies were included in this narrative review. Regarding the reproductive and sexual healthcare services in disasters, four main categories were found: Providing educational and counseling services, planning and providing reproductive healthcare services, providing emergency services in the field of gynecology, obstetrics, and newborn care; and preventing and managing the consequences of sexual violence.
Conclusion: Regarding the many obstacles in providing reproductive healthcare services, this study can be employed to plan, design, and implement some effective interventions for providing the due services. Healthcare service providers can benefit from this review by familiarizing themselves with their role during disasters. It is hoped that the extracted results in the present study can effectively depict the role of healthcare workers in reproductive healthcare in disasters.
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