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Original Article • Sao Paulo Med. J. 140 (5) • Sep-Oct 2022 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1516-3180.2021.0505.R1.07042022 linkcopy

Open-access Perceived racism or racial discrimination and the risk of adverse obstetric outcomes: a systematic review

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    ABSTRACT

    BACKGROUND:  Racial disparities are differences among distinct subgroups of the human species; biologically, there are no scientifically proven reasons for them to exist.

    OBJECTIVE:  To assess the impact of racism or racial discrimination on obstetric outcomes.

    DESIGN AND SETTING:  Systematic review conducted at a tertiary/academic hospital.

    METHODS:  The Cochrane Library, SCOPUS/EMBASE, PubMed, Web of Science and ClinicalTrials.gov databases were searched from inception to June 2020. Studies presenting any type of racial discrimination, or any manifestation of racism that was perceived by women of any age in an obstetric scenario were included. Studies that only assessed racial disparities without including direct racism were excluded. The secondary outcomes evaluated included quality of antenatal care, intra and postpartum care, preterm birth and birthweight. The Risk of Bias In Non-randomized Studies - of Interventions (ROBINS-I) scale was used to assess the quality of evidence from non-randomized studies.

    RESULTS:  A total of 508 records were retrieved and 29 were selected for qualitative synthesis. No meta-analysis could be performed due to the high heterogeneity across studies. Perceived racism was associated as a risk factor in 7/10 studies focusing on pregnancy and postpartum maternal outcomes, five studies on preterm birth, one study on small for gestational age and two studies on low birthweight. Overall, among the 29 studies, the risk of bias was classified as moderate.

    CONCLUSIONS:  Perceived racism presented an association with poor obstetric outcomes. Anti-racist measures are needed in order to address the problems that are causing patients to perceive or experience racism.

    SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION:  PROSPERO database, CRD42020194382

    KEY WORDS (MeSH terms): Pregnancy; Racism; Systematic review [publication type]

    AUTHORS’ KEY WORDS: Preterm birth; Racial discrimination; Racial prejudice

    INTRODUCTION

    Evidence that racial and ethnic disparities are present in healthcare matters and that structural racism is involved as a key determinant of populations’ health is growing.1 Studies within obstetrics have shown that racial disparities influence maternal morbidity and mortality, and that non-Hispanic black women are at highest risk of these outcomes in addition to being at highest risk of entering antenatal care late and being insufficient users of healthcare assistance.2 In a recent systematic review, empirical studies provided evidence to show that race and ethnicity have a role in pregnancy-related mortality and severe maternal morbidity risk.3 However, the number of studies on racial disparities surpasses those on racism itself.

    Racial disparities are differences among distinct subgroups of the human species. However, biologically, there are no scientifically proven reasons for them to exist. Nonetheless, race has social significance because it may be used within a system of domination and oppression within which one racial group receives benefits and privileges from systematic subjugation of other racial groups.4 Thus, racial disparities are the tip of the iceberg, as the effect is seen in relation to several disorders throughout medicine. In obstetrics, the effect of racism leads to racial disparities that involve not only the woman but also the newborn or the whole family.

    Racism is defined as “an organized system, rooted in an ideology of inferiority that categorizes, classifies and allocates social resources to groups of the human population in different ways”.5 In addition to being considered to be a determinant of health, due to its dynamic nature that endures and adapts over time, thereby influencing policies and practices that affect health, racism reflects norms and practices that are perceived as common, constant and chronic.6–8 Therefore, it is important to study the effect of racism at every step of the way, in order to analyze outcomes that can lead to solutions.

    OBJECTIVE

    We aimed to assess the impact of racism or racial discrimination within obstetric outcomes, considering that in obstetrics, the effect of racism may lead to racial disparities that involve both the woman and the child.

    METHODS

    This systematic review was conducted in accordance with the PRISMA guidelines9,10 (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses). The protocol for this review was registered in the PROSPERO database (under the number CRD42020194382).11 The Cochrane, EMBASE/SCOPUS, PubMed, Web of Science and ClinicalTrials.gov databases were searched electronically on the same day (July 1, 2020) using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms and entry terms, along with keywords and word variants, for the terms obstetrics and racism (https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42020194382). There were no language or time-span restrictions.

    Study selection

    This review included observational studies that reported any type of racial discrimination, or any racism manifestation perceived by women of any age in an obstetric scenario. We considered studies that measured manifestations of racial discrimination or racism using questionnaires, indexes or scales in association with obstetric outcomes. Studies within obstetrics or studies that considered racial disparities or racial inequalities within obstetrics that did not measure manifestations of racial discrimination or racism were excluded. We also excluded qualitative studies that did not present any quantitative data, in accordance with the inclusion criteria.

    The primary outcome was the presence of perceived racism or racial discrimination, reported as a categorical answer (yes/no), or as the sum score from an instrument measuring racial discrimination or racism.

    Measurements

    The following scales and indexes were investigated: Experience of Discrimination Scale,12 Daily Life Experiences of Racism and Bother Score,13 Racism and Life Experience Scale,14 Racial Segregation Index,15 Major Discrimination Scale,16 Index of Concentration at the Extremes,17 Perception of Discrimination During Childbirth,18 Gendered Racial Microaggressions Scale,19 Measure of Indigenous Racism Experience,20 Racism-Related Scale,21 Chronic Worry,12 Williams Scale of Everyday Discrimination12 and Perceived Racism Scale.22

    The Experience of Discrimination Scale is a validated and reliable nine-item questionnaire that has been used in eleven studies. It is based on a previous seven-item instrument developed by Krieger et al. in 1990.23,24 This multi-item self-report instrument measuring experiences of racial discrimination presents nine-item questions about discrimination in several domains, including at school and work, and investigates the frequency of discrimination.12

    The Experience of Discrimination questionnaire was validated in the American population through confirmatory factor analysis and the results showed adequate model-fit indices.12

    We used a spreadsheet for data extraction that had previously been pilot-tested. It exhibited the following variables: author/year, subject, variables, the time when the interview took place, sample size and main results (with descriptive data or crude/adjusted analysis if the variables were estimating the effect of an association between racism/racial discrimination and a dependent variable).

    Data extraction

    Two researchers (GMVP and LGOB) independently evaluated the titles and abstracts of screened articles. A full-text evaluation was performed when the abstracts did not provide sufficient methodological information. The two researchers also independently analyzed full-text articles to determine study eligibility and to extract data. A third reviewer (FGS) helped in cases of any inconsistencies in the data.

    Assessment of risk of bias

    Study quality was assessed by two investigators independently using the Risk of Bias In Non-randomized Studies of Interventions (ROBINS-I) tool. The studies were judged in terms of bias as “low risk”, “moderate risk”, “serious risk”, “critical risk” and “no information”, for the following domains: confounding, selection of participants, classification, deviations from intended interventions, missing data, measurement of outcomes, reported result and overall bias.25

    Data synthesis

    Interventions and outcomes were presented differently among the studies selected, which precluded meta-analysis (due to heterogeneity). The present analysis was therefore restricted to a systematic review. We divided the results according to maternal outcomes (maternal smoking, antenatal entry, antenatal stress, delayed antenatal care, maternal blood pressure, antenatal sleep quality, trust in providers, etc.) and neonatal outcomes (preterm birth, small for gestational age and low birthweight).

    RESULTS

    The search strategy identified 508 articles; of these, two studies were excluded because they did not meet the inclusion criteria and 29 studies were included for final qualitative synthesis and are displayed in Figure 1. These comprised 16 cross-sectional studies, 11 cohort studies and two case-control studies. No randomized clinical trials were found regarding this subject. The number of participants per study ranged among the studies from 39 to 8,962 women.

    Figure 1
    Flowchart of different steps of the systematic review.

    The maternal outcomes (Table 1) included racial discrimination in pregnancy and childbirth. Four studies included antenatal care that involved racial discrimination with regard to smoking,26 perceived discrimination through delayed antenatal care,27 experience of racial discrimination in antenatal entry28 and racial discrimination regarding perceived antenatal stress/depression.29 Eleven studies on pregnancy assessed general perceived racism,30–34 racial discrimination in relation to Epstein-Barr virus reactivation,35 racism in relation to blood pressure changes,36 racism in relation to trust in providers,37 racial segregation with regard to smoking,38 perceived discrimination in maternity care39 and racial discrimination in relation to biological measurements.40 One study included racial discrimination with regard to perinatal sleep quality.41 Lastly, perceived discrimination during childbirth was reported in one study.18

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    Table 1
    Racism or racial discrimination within studies comprising antenatal care, childbirth and postpartum period

    Fourteen studies assessed racial discrimination in relation to neonatal outcomes (Table 2) involving preterm birth (gestational age below 37 weeks) and low birthweight (less than 2500 grams).32,36,42–53

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    Table 2
    Racism or racial discrimination assessed within studies on low birthweight and preterm infants

    The risk of bias of the studies included is described in Figure 2.18,28–53 The overall classification of bias in these studies was moderate. Overall bias was classified as a moderate risk of bias in all 29 studies.

    Figure 2
    ROBINS-I tool (Risk Of Bias In Non-randomized Studies – of Interventions) applied to the studies included.

    Pregnancy

    Two studies assessed the association between racial discrimination and maternal smoking. Nguyen et al.26 described experiences of discrimination as a predictor for smoking during pregnancy. They found that women who experienced high levels of discrimination (≥ 3 domains) were 2.6 times (odds ratio, OR 2.64; confidence interval, CI 1.25 to 5.60) more likely to smoke during pregnancy. When stratified according to race, black women reporting high levels of discrimination were 3.4 times (OR 3.36; CI 1.23 to 9.19) more likely to smoke during pregnancy than Hispanic women. Yang et al.38 reported a higher probability of maternal smoking during pregnancy when black women were less integrated into society at large than non-Hispanic whites were.

    Slaughter-Acey et al.28 investigated the indices of denial of racism in antenatal care for African-American women; they found that the overall denial of racism index was 19% higher (adjusted odds ratio, AOR 1.19; CI 1.00–1.41) for African-American women with no prenatal care or late to antenatal care (attendance at ≥ seven months of gestation), compared with early prenatal care attendance (attendance at ≤ three months of gestation).

    Becares et al.29 reported on lifetime and past-year experiences of racial discrimination covering personal attacks and unfair treatment in a group of multiple-ethnicity women categorized as Māori, Pacific, Asian and European. Lifetime and past-year experiences of racial discrimination with any unfair treatment were more common among Māori women; however, they were highly prevalent among all non-European mothers.

    Slaughter-Acey et al.27 revealed that African-American women with Daily Life Experience of Racism and Bother score > 71 were 31% more likely to present delayed antenatal care than non-African-American women. Fifty-one (54.3%) out of 94 African-American women reported experiences of racial discrimination in a study by Stancil et al.30 Of these, 28.7% reported these experiences while applying for a job and 28.7% reported that these were occurrences at work.

    Christian et al.35 investigated the association between racial discrimination and Epstein-Barr virus capsid antigen immunoglobulin G during pregnancy and postpartum. Epstein-Barr virus capsid antigen immunoglobulin G antibody titers were significantly higher during the first (P = 0.03) and second trimesters of pregnancy (P = 0.04) in women reporting high levels of racial discrimination, compared with those reporting low racial discrimination.

    Two studies by Grobman et al.31,32 were selected. One study showed that non-Hispanic black women were more likely to perceive racism and with the least social support. In the other, no association was observed between race-ethnicity and hypertensive disease of pregnancy.36 Mendez et al.33 used smartphone technology to assess exposure to racism and found that black women experienced more racism than white women. Peters et al.37 investigated African-American women's trust in providers during pregnancy. Trust was negatively correlated with previous experience of racism (r = −0.16; P = 0.03).

    In the study by Attanasio et al.,39 black and Hispanic race/ethnicity were found to be associated, respectively, with threefold and twofold increases in perceived racial discrimination. Borders et al.40 found an association between stress biomarkers and race. Non-Hispanic black women presented significantly higher adrenocorticotropic hormone and C-reactive protein levels in the second and third trimesters, in comparison with non-Hispanic whites.

    Chambers et al.34 described racial discrimination in nine situations. 93% of the women reported racial discrimination in at least one situational domain and the three most frequent ones were at school (59.5%), on the street or in a public setting (59.5%) and getting service in a store or restaurant (54.8%). Lastly, perinatal sleep quality was studied and correlated with racial discrimination in the study by Francis et al.41 This positive association showed that greater reported everyday racial discrimination was associated with poorer overall sleep quality.

    Childbirth and postpartum period

    Attanasio et al.18 investigated perceived discrimination in relation to hospitalization for childbirth and non-attendance of post-partum visit. Women who reported racial discrimination were more than twice as likely to miss their postpartum visit, compared with women who did not report this type of discrimination (AOR 2.11; CI 1.15–3.87).

    Preterm birth

    Rosenberg et al.42 showed that preterm birth occurred 30% more often among women who reported unfair treatment on the job and 40% more often among women who reported that people acted fearfully in relation to them at least once a week.

    Mustillo et al.43 showed that black women were 2.5 times more likely to have a preterm birth than white women. Women who reported having three or more experiences of racial discrimination were 2.4 times more likely to have a preterm birth than those who did not report racial discrimination. Similarly, Braveman et al.45 reported that racial discrimination was significantly associated with preterm birth among black women before (prevalence ratio, PR 1.73; CI 1.12–2.67) and after (PR 2.00; CI 1.33–3.01) adjustment for social/demographic, behavioral and medical covariates. Preterm birth was also associated with experiences of racism, with a 29% increased risk.46

    Grobman et al.32 found that non-Hispanic black women experiencing racism were at higher risk of any preterm birth and of small-for-gestational-age birth, compared with non-Hispanic white women. Similarly, Hispanic and Asian women experiencing racism were also at risk of small-for-gestational-age birth.

    In four studies, exposure to racial discrimination did not interfere in the frequency of preterm birth among black women.44,47–49 On the other hand, Fryer et al.47 showed that Latina women presented a significant association between racial discrimination and preterm birth. Moreover, in the study by Brown et al.,50 Aboriginal women who experienced racial discrimination in perinatal care showed a 90% higher risk of having an infant who was small for gestational age. They did not find any association with preterm birth in their sample.

    Birthweight

    Two case-control studies found an association between very low birthweight and maternal exposure to racial discrimination. Very low birthweight was associated with incidents of lifetime exposure to interpersonal racism in three or more domains of the racial discrimination questionnaire (AOR 2.6; CI 1.2–5.3).52 Exposure to racial discrimination perceived in three or more domains of the racial discrimination questionnaire and being alone in the delivery room were associated with a twofold greater chance of having an infant with very low birthweight (OR 2.7; CI 1.3–5.4).51

    Mustillo et al.43 found a strong association between racial discrimination and birthweight. Black women were over four times more likely to deliver low birthweight infants than white women. Moreover, women reporting elevated levels of racial discrimination were almost five times more likely to deliver a low birthweight infant than women who did not report racial discrimination.

    Dominguez et al.53 reported that each unit increase in the perception of racial discrimination over women's lifetimes was associated with a 39.59-gram decrease in infant birthweight. Furthermore, childhood-vicarious racism (i.e. indirect exposure to prejudice and discrimination) was a significant predictor of decreased birthweight.

    Hilmert et al.36 also analyzed the involvement of racism in birth-weight. In their interview method, adapted from Krieger et al.,12 they included subscales for direct and indirect exposure during childhood (≤ 16 years) and in adulthood (> 16 years). Correlation analyses showed that childhood indirect, adulthood personal and total racism exposure demonstrated significant amounts of variance in birth weight (all P-values < 0.05). After including control variables, the association between adjusted birthweight and indirect racism during childhood (β = −0.24) ceased to be significant (P> 0.10).

    Lastly, Brown et al.50 revealed that women who experienced racial discrimination in perinatal care were 90% more likely to have a baby with low birthweight than were women who did not experience such discrimination.

    DISCUSSION

    This review found that perceived racism or racial discrimination was negatively associated with maternal and neonatal outcomes. It supports the reality that racism is a public health problem that warrants significant discussion with the goal of finding practical solutions through implementation of anti-racist measures.

    This review also demonstrated that women experiencing racial discrimination were more likely to present poorer maternal health outcomes during pregnancy and childbirth and in the postpartum period. Trust in providers was compromised during pregnancy; it was inversely associated with previous experiences of racism. Racial discrimination during antenatal care was associated with later onset of antenatal visits or lack of attendance of postpartum visits. It was also associated with smoking, which is a well-known risk factor for poor health outcomes.54 Stress biomarkers also presented elevated during the second and third trimester among African-American women. Epstein-Barr virus immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody titers were significantly elevated in women reporting high levels of racial discrimination. African-American women were found to have elevated antibody titers throughout pregnancy and the postpartum period. There is research supporting the notion that maternal stress before and during pregnancy is associated with poor pregnancy outcomes, including low birthweight, preterm birth and infant mortality.55

    Racial discrimination also plays a negative role in pregnancy blood pressure. Pre-pregnancy hypertension and diabetes were associated with higher odds of perceived racial discrimination. Childhood exposure to racism presented a significant association with change in diastolic blood pressure in African-American women. High blood pressure during pregnancy is associated with pregnancy complications, such as preeclampsia, cesarean delivery, preterm delivery, low birth weight, neonatal intensive care admission and perinatal death.56

    Racism appears to be a risk factor for worse neonatal outcomes, with greater occurrence of low birthweight and preterm birth. Racial discrimination was also significantly associated with premature birth in most, but not all the studies on this subject.

    One major strength of our study was that it used a defined search strategy and predetermined eligibility criteria. We included studies that measured racial discrimination using an instrument that showed some association with obstetric outcomes, unlike previous studies, in which disparities or inequities between groups of women were reported but no mention of the racism or racial discrimination suffered by these women was made. We highlighted the social determinants of maternal and neonatal health: specifically, exposure to stress or stressors and social relationships and interactions that influence health outcomes, such as racism or racial discrimination.57–60

    On the other hand, this review presented several limitations. In addition to methodological problems, the interventions and outcomes differentiated substantially among the studies included. Comparison among those studies would induce bias and the results would need to be interpreted with caution. The use of thirteen different questionnaires limited the possibility of performing a meta-analysis. The existence of thirteen different questionnaires also points to the need for further study on this topic and definition of the best instruments for its evaluation. The limitations on the use of scales for questions that assess personal experience are widely known. However, even with these limitations, use of scales provides the means to take the first step towards knowledge of issues that are more personal and cultural.

    CONCLUSION

    Perceived racism presented an association with poor obstetric outcomes. In summary, even with the stated limitations to these studies, a prompt response from society is urged, in order to be attentive to prevention of racism in all healthcare spaces. Our institution, peers, trainees and patients need to engage in anti-racist training. Anti-racist measures are needed so as to address the problems that are causing patients to perceive or experience racism. These measures should ultimately contribute to reduction of racial disparities in obstetric outcomes.

    • Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas (SP), Brazil
    • Sources of funding: Pereira GMV received a scholarship grant, no. 2019/26723-5, from Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

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      29 Aug 2022
    • Date of issue
      Sep-Oct 2022

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    • Received
      10 June 2021
    • Reviewed
      06 Jan 2022
    • Accepted
      07 Apr 2022
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