Kilcullen, Meegan, Kandasamy, Yogavijaya, Watson, David, and Cadet-James, Yvonne (2025) Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women’s experiences of stillbirth in North Queensland. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying. (In Press)

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Abstract

The stillbirth rate of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants remains almost twice the rate for non-Indigenous infants. There is a paucity of research giving voice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and families experiences pregnancy loss and stillbirth. This qualitative study aimed explored the experiences of five Australian Aboriginal women in North Queensland. Women identified the need for timely, clear, concise, and sensitive communications with culturally responsive health professionals throughout their experience of stillbirth. Women also want to be consulted and supported during and beyond their experience of stillbirth. Australian Aboriginal women want to be informed and included in their care by culturally responsive health professionals during and beyond their stillbirth experiences. These findings will inform maternity and neonatal standard care guidelines, and health professionals’ training and education programs to support culturally responsive plans for continuity of care of regional, rural and remote Indigenous women and families.

Item ID:	85425
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1541-3764
Keywords:	Stillbirth; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander; Experience of loss; Risk; Pregnancy
Copyright Information:	© The Author(s) 2025. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
Date Deposited:	20 May 2025 00:47
FoR Codes:	45 INDIGENOUS STUDIES > 4504 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing > 450414 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers and babies health and wellbeing @ 100%
SEO Codes:	21 INDIGENOUS > 2103 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health > 210302 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status and outcomes @ 75% 20 HEALTH > 2005 Specific population health (excl. Indigenous health) > 200509 Women's and maternal health @ 25%
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