Women''s Quality of Life during Postpartum Period at Home

• Main Authors: Chen Hsiu-Chinms, 陳秀琴
• Other Authors: 李從業
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2000
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47981369688152873296

碩士 === 國防醫學院 === 護理研究所 === 88 === Abstract The purpose of this research is to discuss the life quality of postpartum women when they are doing the month at home. Descriptive research method has been used. The subjects of this research are postpartum women who have been intentionally sampled in two public health clinics in southern Taiwan. The data were collected through structural questionnaires which were filled out by postpartum women when they brought newborn infants to health clinics for vaccination within 90 days in their postpartum period. The content of the questionnaire includes “basic personal attribute scale”, “the attitude to body image scale”, “social support scale and “life quality scale”. After analyzing collected data through descriptive statistics, t- test, variable analysis(one-way ANOVA), Pearson product-moment correlation and stepwise regression analysis, we have reached the following conclusions: 1. Most postpartum women “have no special feelings” about the change of their body images when they are doing the month at home. The only thing that causes their minor negative feelings is the change on their abdomen and waist. This shows that postpartum women do not tend to have negative attitudes towards the change of their body images one month after they give birth to babies. 2. For postpartum women doing the month at home, the average points of social support that they have got are 44.72. This reflects that they think they get medium-degree social support. Instrumental support gets the highest points. Emotional support ranks the second. Informational support gets the lowest points. This indicates that postpartum women get sufficient objects, service and care from others when they are doing the month at home. Nevertheless, they need other people to provide more information about knowledge, news and methods to handle things. 3. As to the question of life quality of postpartum women doing the month at home, the average points are 19.4. The ranking order from the highest to the lowest is “intimate factors”, “family factors”, “environmental factors”, “health factors” and “socio-psychological factors”. “Family happiness” reaches the high points in individual questions of this section. It shows that “family happiness” has positive impact on the whole life quality. “Unemployment” reaches the lowest points, which shows “being jobless” has great influence on the life quality of postpartum women. 4. As to individual questions of “satisfaction” and “importance” in the “life quality” scale, the choice of “children” has reached the highest points. This indicates that mothers consider their children the most important and satisfying babies. “Unemployment” gets the lowest points in the question of “satisfaction”. This implies that postpartum women think that unemployment will cause economic pressure in life and thus affect their life quality. “Being unable to travel when they are doing the month” gets the lowest points in the question of “importance”. This indicates that postpartum women consider this choice the least important due to traditional customs and taboos and the consideration of their future health. 5. As to the correlation among “the attitude to body image”, “social support”, “life quality” and “basic personal attributes” for postpartum women doing the month at home, there are statistically important differences among “the attitude to body image”, “social support”, and “basic personal attributes”. However, there are no statistically important differences in the correlation between “basic personal attributes” and “life quality”. 6. In this research, “the attitudes to body image” and “social support” are important predictive factors of the life quality of postpartum women doing the month at home. It means that these women would have better quality of life if they feel more positive towards their body images and if they get more sufficient social support.