http://hdl.handle.net/10147/142651 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:51:23 GMT 2013-06-20T10:51:23Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/226351 Title: Attitudes to fertility, sexual health and motherhood amongst a Sample of Non-Irish National minority ethnic women living in Ireland Authors: Crisis Pregnancy Programme; Conlon, Catherine Dr.; O'Connor, Joan; Ní Chatháin, Siobhán Description: This research is concerned with exploring the meanings young migrant and minority ethnic women aged 18-30 living in Ireland bring to their sexual relationships, sexual health, and reproductive healthcare decisions, including contraceptive use, pregnancy and motherhood. This in-depth, qualitative study considers how legal, cultural, social and economic factors play out in their decisions and practices. The main purpose of this work is to ensure greater understanding and sensitivity to the specific needs and issues of concern for non-Irish national and ethnic minority women in relation to their sexual well-being. Comparative to other Northern and European countries, Ireland’s status as a country of immigration is relatively recent. While a small number of minority ethnic communities have been established for some time in Ireland, overall ethnic diversity is emergent in Irish society, so that many minority ethnic communities are at this time equivalent to migrant communities. Many of the young women in this study are first-generation migrants who have come alone or with families to live in Ireland within the past twenty years or less. The underdevelopment of research on this issue in the Irish context means that the study is building on a very low knowledge base and as such constitutes an initial exploratory study. The sensitivity of the topic of interest and marginalisation of the population of interest were also issues to consider in the design of the study. Taken together these issues provided a strong rationale for the selection of social justice orientated methodologies, and a community-based participatory research approach was taken. The study design comprised: • Consultation with stakeholder organisations for cultural immersion in the topic and to assess the cultural appropriateness of the research approach. • Engaging peer researchers to be involved in the data-generation process. • Qualitative, in-depth interviews with a sample young migrant and minority ethnic women aged 18-30. The study focuses on four communities within the overall migrant and minority ethnic community in Ireland – Chinese, Nigerian, Polish and Muslim – selected for diversity based on analysis of recent patterns of migration into Ireland. Qualitative interviews with women aged between eighteen and thirty years from each community drew out detailed accounts of their individual experiences, views and needs in relation to sexual and reproductive health. Such an approach generates a nuanced and detailed picture of the particularities and specificities of risk, care and support needs of our study group, to help inform the formation of policy and service delivery in the context of a more ethnically diverse and transient population. Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/226351 2012-05-29T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/223614 Title: Respect: a summary report of the background and key findings of the respect project (based on the interim evaluation report) Authors: Crisis Pregnancy Programme Description: This summary document provides an outline of the history, development and aims and objectives of the pilot Respect Project. The report also highlights key findings identified when developing and implementing this project in tour different school settings in Co. Wexford Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/223614 2006-11-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/223172 Title: Irish contraception and crisis pregnancy study 2010 (ICCP-2010) a survey of the general population Authors: McBride, Orla; Morgan, Karen; McGee, Hannah Description: This is the third national survey undertaken by the Crisis Pregnancy Programme (CPP (formerly the Crisis Pregnancy Agency)). The first, The Irish Contraception and Crisis Pregnancy Study (ICCP), was commissioned in 2002 when the Crisis Pregnancy Agency (CPA) was first established. ICCP was designed to establish baseline measures for crisis pregnancy prevalence in addition to a broad range of sexual health indicators related to crisis pregnancy. These indicators did not exist in an Irish context prior to this survey. A second, much larger sexual health survey was undertaken in 2004 with the Department of Health and Children: the Irish Study of Sexual Health and Relationships (ISSHR). This was a much larger piece of work, with double the sample size of the earlier survey. The ISSHR addressed a much broader range of behaviours, including behaviours among the population with experience of same-sex relationships exclusively. The ISSHR mirrored international studies undertaken in the field, both in its scale and its measures. This third survey, The Irish Contraception and Crisis Pregnancy Study (ICCP) 2010, allows us to assess the impacts of the CPP’s work since 2003. Two national strategies have been implemented since the establishment of the former Crisis Pregnancy Agency. A significant investment has been made in sexual health protection and crisis pregnancy activities over a ten-year period. It is important to analyse the work that has been undertaken and assess its impact. Several kinds and levels of data are required to do this successfully. Survey data capturing key measures is one key component. Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/223172 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/143537 Title: Pregnancy and employment: a literature review Authors: Russell, Helen; Banks, Joanne Description: This literature review forms part of a major new research study on women’s experiences in the workplace during and after pregnancy, commissioned by the HSE Crisis Pregnancy Programme and the Equality Authority. In addition to this review the research involved a study of pregnancy discrimination cases in the Equality Tribunal and Labour Court, 1999 – 2008 (Banks & Russell, 2011) and a nationwide survey of 2,300 working mothers (Russell, Watson, Banks, forthcoming). The broad objective of the research project was to investigate the influence of pregnancy and childbirth on women’s employment experiences, including an assessment of pregnancy-related discrimination in Ireland, and how these experiences are shaped by organisational factors and women’s attitudes and characteristics. While there is a very substantial literature on the impact of childbearing on women’s employment careers and on the transitions back into work, these studies focus on the period after childbirth and rarely focus on pregnancy. Instead there is a rather separate literature on pregnancy in the workplace, which deals with the health consequences of employment during pregnancy, pregnancy discrimination and maternity rights. In this literature review we bring together evidence from both these sources to consider how pregnancy and maternity is experienced in the workplace and to understand the immediate and longer term outcomes of pregnancy and childbirth on women’s employment. Over the past few decades women’s participation in the paid labour market has risen substantially both in Ireland and internationally. As a consequence, pregnancy in the workplace has become a much more common occurrence. Nevertheless, while there is a large literature on the issue of gender and employment and on the intersection of work and family life, the experience of pregnancy in the workplace is less well researched. McDonald and Dear (2006) note that “there is a paucity of empirical work ... which has explored women’s experiences of pregnancy in the workplace, much less the patterns of behaviour reported in cases where women experience disadvantage as a result of pregnancy.” Attitudes, norms and stereotypes concerning the roles of mothers and of workers and perceived conflicts between these roles are more likely to become evident for pregnant workers (Halpert et al, 1993). Pregnancy and childbirth also necessitate a break in employment for mothers, and the way in which this interruption is managed has important implications for women’s working and family lives. The potential vulnerability of pregnant workers to unfavourable treatment and discrimination, to health and safety risks and to problems associated with reintegration into employment, is recognised in maternity-protection legislation and in anti-discrimination legislation in many European jurisdictions. Entitlements for Irish workers during pregnancy and the early period of maternity are outlined in Banks and Russell (2011). Sun, 01 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/143537 2011-05-01T00:00:00Z