Longitudinal health survey of women from Venezuela in Colombia (ELSA-VENCOL): First report

Colombia is currently the world's main recipient country for Venezuelan migrants, and women represent a high proportion of them. This article presents the first report of a cohort of Venezuelan migrant women entering Colombia through Cúcuta and its metropolitan area. The study aimed to describe...

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Published in:PloS one 2023-03, Vol.18 (3), p.e0274157
Main Authors: Acosta-Reyes, Jorge, Fernández-Niño, Julián Alfredo, Rojas-Botero, Maylen Liseth, Bonilla-Tinoco, Laura Juliana, Aguirre, Melissa, Anillo, Luis Ángel, Rodríguez, David Alejandro, Cifuentes, Lida Yoana, Jiménez, Iván, León, Luisa Fernanda, Bojorquez-Chapela, Ietza
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Breast cancer
Cervical cancer
Cervix
Cities
Colombia - epidemiology
Earth Sciences
Evaluation
Female
Food security
Health aspects
Health care access
Health services
Health Surveys
Humans
Information systems
Longitudinal Studies
Medicine and Health Sciences
Mental depression
Metropolitan areas
Migration
Pandemics
People and places
Population
Questionnaires
Reproduction
Reproductive health
Reproductive systems
Social Sciences
Transients and Migrants
Venezuela - epidemiology
Women
Womens health
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Summary:Colombia is currently the world's main recipient country for Venezuelan migrants, and women represent a high proportion of them. This article presents the first report of a cohort of Venezuelan migrant women entering Colombia through Cúcuta and its metropolitan area. The study aimed to describe the health status and access to healthcare services among Venezuelan migrant women in Colombia with irregular migration status, and to analyze changes in those conditions at a one-month follow-up. We carried out a longitudinal cohort study of Venezuelan migrant women, 18 to 45 years, who entered Colombia with an irregular migration status. Study participants were recruited in Cúcuta and its metropolitan area. At baseline, we administered a structured questionnaire including sociodemographic characteristics, migration history, health history, access to health services, sexual and reproductive health, practice of early detection of cervical cancer and breast cancer, food insecurity, and depressive symptoms. The women were again contacted by phone one month later, between March and July 2021, and a second questionnaire was applied. A total of 2,298 women were included in the baseline measurement and 56.4% could be contacted again at the one-month follow-up. At the baseline, 23.0% of the participants reported a self-perceived health problem or condition in the past month and 29.5% in the past 6 months, and 14.5% evaluated their health as fair or poor. A significant increase was found in the percentage of women who reported a self-perceived health problem during the past month (from 23.1% to 31.4%; p
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0274157