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Agriculture is a niche market for migrant workers, and one of the sectors with the highest rates of accidents, deaths and work-related health problems. To review and synthesize existing literature on the health conditions of international migrant agricultural workers in Europe. A scoping review of scientific literature published until March 2021 was conducted in PubMed, Scopus, WoS and OpenGrey, following Arksey & O'Malley's theoretical framework where 5894 references were retrieved and screened. Nineteen articles were selected, reviewed and synthetized. The country with the highest number of studies published (n = 9) was Spain. The design of the studies was mainly cross-sectional (n = 13). The main health problems identified were: lower back pain and other musculoskeletal problems, dermatitis, gastrointestinal and respiratory infections, anxiety, stress, depression and barriers to access healthcare services. Migrant agricultural workers are a neglected population with conditions of vulnerability and precariousness, physical and mental health problems and poor working conditions. Interventions to reduce or eliminate language, cultural and administrative barriers to ensure access to healthcare services are needed, as well as designing a common European framework to protect the rights of migrant agricultural workers and their families.

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ABSTRACTIn Latin America, the Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic of 2015-2016 resulted in children being born with a spectrum of neurological disorders called Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS). Women are the primary caregivers of those children. The objective of the study was to identify the perceived needs of women to care for their children with CZS in Southern Colombia. In 2019, a qualitative ethnographic study was conducted in southern Colombia, including 21 women belonging to a self-managed support group and who had prenatal ZIKV between 2015 and 2016 and, as a consequence, their children were born with CZS. Three discussion groups and six semi-structured interviews were conducted and analyzed through qualitative content analysis. Three main perceived needs to care for their children were identified: knowledge and skills to provide the complex care their children require and for which they did not feel prepared, economic and social support. This study showed that women face unmet needs when caring for their children with CZS, especially regarding social support. Therefore, it is urgent to generate public policies and intervention strategies for professionals to support these women in order to meet not only the needs of their children but also their own.

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PURPOSE: To qualitatively evaluate the perceived benefits of participation in a support group (SG) for mothers of children with Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS) in Southern Colombia. METHODS: The "Women of Zika" SG was running in Sourthern Colombia from August 2018 to December 2019. The evaluation was carried out between October and December 2019, 21 women participated and the information was collected in three group discussions and non-participant observation. A thematic content analysis of the data was carried out with the support of Atlas ti-v8. RESULTS: Women's discourses assessing the perceived benefits of participating in the SG were organized under three categories according to the three dimensions of social support: "Teaching and learning from each other: the SG as a source of information support," "Coping with adversity: the SG as a source of emotional support" and "Creating your own identity: the SG as a source of relational support." CONCLUSION: The SG has been an important source of social support for women with children with CZS and it meant had a shared space where they developed individual and collective agency capacities. SGs can be a useful strategy for social and therapeutic support for families with children with multiple disabilities, such as CZS.Implications for rehabilitationCaring after children with CZS has negative implications on the mental health and quality of life of these women.Specific interventions need to be developed to improve the quality of life of mothers of children with CZS.Support groups are an effective strategy for providing social support to women with children with different disabilities such as CZS.

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OBJECTIVE: To explore the experiences of a group of young women in relation to the reconstruction of their breasts after mastectomy. METHOD: Focused ethnography, performed in the League against Cancer- Huila Section (Colombia). Through casual sampling oriented by criteria, semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight young women (diagnosed at 45 years or earlier) with breast cancer (reconstructed or not reconstructed after mastectomy) until saturation of discourse. Data collection was carried out between August-November 2017, after the endorsement of the Ethics Committee and the consent of the participants. Data was analysed using the thematic analysis technique after being anonymised. RESULTS: Three issues emerged in the women's discourses: The social stigma of being a young woman with breast cancer; learning to live with a body transformed by disease and treatment, and surviving, which is the most important thing. CONCLUSIONS: Being a young woman, and suffering from breast cancer implies a diversity of changes that permanently alter the lives of women and their bodies. Women prioritise survival in order to take care of others over breast reconstruction. At a healthcare level, the cultural and gender perspective must be incorporated to design individualised nursing interventions that contribute to better care.

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OBJECTIVE: To understand the decision-making process of a group of women to continue gestation following a prenatal Zika virus infection and the diagnosis of microcephaly of their fetuses. METHOD: Qualitative study. Two discussion groups and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 21 women residing in the Department of Huila (Colombia) who presented a prenatal Zika virus infection between 2015 and 2016, their children were born with congenital microcephaly. The data were analyzed following the Grounded Theory approach. RESULTS: Four categories emerged from the analysis of the data showing a temporal process, from before to taking the decision to continue gestation following prenatal Zika virus infection to its consequences. The process begins with the diagnosis virus infection during the first trimester of gestation, continuing with medical recommendations to interrupt gestation and women's refusal to interrupt gestation, and ending with the birth of children with congenital microcephaly. CONCLUSION: Women rejected abortion due to ethical conflicts based on religious beliefs and the value of motherhood. It is necessary to design social support policies for women and families affected by this problem in Colombia. Due to the international impact of the epidemic, governments should take appropriate measures to deal with future cases of Zika infections in other countries.

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Resumen En este trabajo se exploró el papel de la religiosidad durante la vivencia del cáncer de mama de un grupo de mujeres del sur de Colombia. Se realizó una etnografía focalizada donde participaron 17 mujeres que padecen cáncer de mama en cualquier estadio de la enfermedad y que habían concluido el primer año de tratamiento. La información se recolectó a través de un grupo de discusión y diez entrevistas semiestructuradas. El análisis temático se utilizó para el tratamiento de los datos. Para las mujeres, la religiosidad fue esencial para la aceptación del padecimiento, al asumirlo como una oportunidad de crecimiento personal y, además, la consideraron una fuente de afrontamiento durante el padecimiento. Se concluye que acercarse al papel de la religiosidad, desde las voces de las mujeres, devela el esencial papel que juega durante la trayectoria del cáncer de mama y la imperiosidad de la inclusión de la atención religiosa como un componente esencial para las mujeres durante el padecimiento del cáncer de mama. Asimismo, es un llamado a la importancia que la investigación sobre este padecimiento no se centre solo desde una perspectiva biomédica.

Abstract This work explored the role of religiosity during the experience of breast cancer of a group of women in southern Colombia. A focused ethnography was carried out where 17 women who suffer from breast cancer at any stage of the disease and who had completed the first year of treatment participated. The information was collected through a discussion group and ten semi-structured interviews. The thematic analysis was used to treat the data. For the women, religiosity was essential for the acceptance of the illness, assuming it as an opportunity for personal growth and also, they considered it a source of coping during the illness. It is concluded that approaching the role of religiosity, from the voices of women, reveals the essential role it plays during the breast cancer trajectory and the need of the inclusion of religious care as an essential component for women during the illness. It also calls for the importance that research on this illness not be focused only from a biomedical perspective.

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