Atención en el parto en la mujer inmigrante; características sociodemográficas y de comportamiento en función de la procedencia de la paciente

Due to continuous migration, some hospital centers attend a wide variety of foreign patients. This increases the difficulties of attending patients -in our case pregnant women-due to language and cultural barriers that can hamper communication and patient care. With a view to characterizing these limitations, a cross-sectional descriptive study was performed to determine the sociodemographic characteristics of pregnant immigrant women from the tropical coast of Granada attending the Santa Ana Basic General Hospital in Motril, Granada. This study found that antenatal care among immigrant women was high but was lower in women from the Magreb and sub-Saharan Africa. The number of women attending pregnancy-related health education programs was very low: 37% among Latin-American women but less than 12% among women from other areas.