Exploring experiences with stressors and coping resources among Dutch socioeconomic groups during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 crisis impacts populations globally. This impact seems to differ for groups with low- and high-socioeconomic status (SES). We conducted a qualitative study in the Netherlands using a salutogenic perspective to examine experiences with stressors and coping resources during the pandemic among both SES groups to gain insight on how to promote the health and well-being of these groups.

Contextual factors that shape uptake of COVID-19 preventive measures by persons of Ghanaian and Eritrean origin in the Netherlands: A focus group study.

Objectives: To explore the contextual factors that shape uptake of COVID-19 preventive measures, in specific migrant and ethnic minority populations, with a focus on migration-related, sociocultural and socioeconomic conditions.

Design: A qualitative design, consisting of three online focus group discussions.

Setting: This study was conducted amongst smaller, albeit substantial, migrant and minority ethnic populations in the Netherlands.

Health care staff's strategies to preserve dignity of migrant patients in the palliative phase and their families. A qualitative study.

Aims: To determine registered nurses' and care assistants' difficulties and strategies for preserving dignity of migrant patients in the last phase of life and their families.

Background: Preserving dignity of patients in a palliative phase entails paying attention to the uniqueness of patients. Migrant patients often have particular needs and wishes that care staff find difficult to address, or meet, and hence the patient's dignity might be at stake.

Community Education for a Dignified Last Phase of Life for Migrants: A Community Engagement, Mixed Methods Study among Moroccan, Surinamese and Turkish Migrants.

Community engagement and -education are proposed to foster equity in access to care and to ensure dignity of migrant patients in the last phase of life, but evidence is lacking. We evaluated nine community educational interactive meetings about palliative care (136 participants totally)- co-created with educators from our target groups of Moroccan, Surinamese and Turkish migrants-with a mixed methods approach, including 114 questionnaires, nine observations, nine interviews with educators, and 18 pre- and post- group- and individual interviews with participants. Descriptive and thematic analysis was used.

Care and Decision-Making at the End of Life for Patients With a Non-Western Migration Background Living in The Netherlands: A Nationwide Mortality Follow-Back Study.

Context: Migrant populations across Europe are aging and will increasingly need end-of-life care.

Objective: The objectives of this study were to gain insight into end-of-life care and decision-making for patients with a non-western migration background and assess differences compared to patients with a Dutch or western migration background.

Methods: A mortality follow-back study was conducted using a stratified sample of death certificates of persons who died between August and December 2015, obtained from the central death registry of Statistics Netherlands.