Purpose: The goal of this study was to assess perspectives of racially/ethnically diverse, low-
income pregnant women on how doula services (nonmedical maternal support) may …

Purpose Women of color in the United States, particularly in high-poverty neighborhoods,
experience high rates of poor birth outcomes, including cesarean section, preterm birth, low …

Doulas, women who primarily provide social support during childbirth, have been
associated with a number of positive health outcomes. Because the primary model of …

Purpose: The aim of this study was to learn from doulas the components of their services that
might best serve low-income, African American (AA) women and to show the significance of …

Background This evaluation of doula care emerges at a time when maternal mortality in the
US outranks every country in the developed world. Study objectives were to: 1) examine …

Background Despite the tenets of rights‐based, person‐centered maternity care, racialized
groups, low‐income people, and people who receive Medicaid insurance in the United …

This is the largest study to-date to report on outcomes of care for a national sample of doula-
supported adolescent births (n= 1,892, birth years 2000 to 2013). Descriptive statistics were …

Introduction Although home-visiting programs typically engage families during pregnancy,
few studies have examined maternal and child health outcomes during the antenatal and …

Introduction Increasingly, community-based models of doula care are receiving attention as
possible interventions to address racial inequities in maternal health care experiences and …

This article presents some of the most salient qualitative results from a larger program
evaluation of pregnant and parenting adolescents who participated in a community-based …