TY - GEN
T1 - Embodied Negotiations, Practices and Experiences Interacting with Pregnancy Care Infrastructures in South India
AU - Bagalkot, Naveen
AU - Akbar, Syeda Zainab
AU - Sharma, Swati
AU - MacKintosh, Nicola
AU - Harrington, Deirdre
AU - Griffiths, Paula
AU - Noronha, Judith Angelitta
AU - Verdezoto, Nervo
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Hoorbanu, Mangala, Muneera, Rathna, Sarasvathi, Shilpa, and Tabassum, the MAYA Health grassroots workers who worked with us as researchers and all the participants in this study. We would also like to thank Dr. Caroline Elizabeth George (Bangalore Baptist Hospital), Dr. Padmini Ray Murray (Design Beku), Dr. Sonia R.B D’Souza (Manipal Academy of Higher Education) as well as Rashmi Hegde, Alex Rodrigues, Satya Jay-achander (MAYA Health) for all the support during the project and comments on the early results of this study. We also would like to Dr Melissa Densmore for her critical comments in an early version of this paper. We would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and constructive feedback. This study was funded by the Medical Research Council through the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), part of the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI). Grant reference number: MC_PC_MR/R024480/1. The frst author was also supported by seed funding from Cardif University’s GCRF QR Funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales. The last author would also like to acknowledge the support provided by Cardif University’s Centre for Artifcial Intelligence, Robotics and Human-Machine Systems (IROHMS) operation C82092, part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the Welsh Government.
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PY - 2022/4/29
Y1 - 2022/4/29
N2 - Behavior change and improving health literacy based on normative ideals of motherhood is a dominant paradigm to address maternal health challenges. However, these ideals often remove women's control over their bodies overlooking how the bodily experiences of pregnancy are socially and culturally constructed. We report on 27 interviews with pregnant women and nursing mothers in rural and semi-urban areas of South India, and six focus groups with 23 frontline health workers as secondary data. We explore how the embodied pregnancy experiences are influenced and negotiated by the socio-cultural context and existing care infrastructures. Our findings highlight how the ways of seeing, knowing, and caring for a body of a pregnant woman through often conflicting norms, beliefs and practices of medicine, nourishment and care actively shape the experiences of pregnancy. We open up a space for novel opportunities for digital health technologies to enhance women's embodied experiences and pregnancy care infrastructures in the Global South.
AB - Behavior change and improving health literacy based on normative ideals of motherhood is a dominant paradigm to address maternal health challenges. However, these ideals often remove women's control over their bodies overlooking how the bodily experiences of pregnancy are socially and culturally constructed. We report on 27 interviews with pregnant women and nursing mothers in rural and semi-urban areas of South India, and six focus groups with 23 frontline health workers as secondary data. We explore how the embodied pregnancy experiences are influenced and negotiated by the socio-cultural context and existing care infrastructures. Our findings highlight how the ways of seeing, knowing, and caring for a body of a pregnant woman through often conflicting norms, beliefs and practices of medicine, nourishment and care actively shape the experiences of pregnancy. We open up a space for novel opportunities for digital health technologies to enhance women's embodied experiences and pregnancy care infrastructures in the Global South.
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U2 - 10.1145/3491102.3501950
DO - 10.1145/3491102.3501950
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85130559922
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2022
Y2 - 30 April 2022 through 5 May 2022
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