The Analyses of Information Demand of Taiwan's Postpartum Women

• Main Authors: Shou-mei Changchuang, 章莊壽美
• Other Authors: Li-chih Ying
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64091385993630162755

碩士 === 南華大學 === 出版事業管理研究所 === 94 === 　　In recent years Taiwan has been a society in flux. This social change has gradually produced a shift in family structure to more and more "nuclear families" (commonly called "small families") and even "single-parent families". This change in the makeup of the family has caused the woman giving birth to lack the help, care and attention of both her mother and her mother-in-law during the month after childbirth. Needless to say, the newborn as well will have missed this care and attention. In order to attain the proper care for both herself and the newly born, the woman giving birth may want to go as far as choosing a suitable "Postpartum Nursing Care Center" (or "Post-Childbirth Nursing Center") and need to obtain some related information. 　 　　This study attempts to find information related to all subjects of interest to the woman giving birth in Taiwan, as well as listing the degree of importance and the sequential order of all subjects, channels for obtaining information on all subjects, and exploring the relationship between the raw data on women giving birth and all the aforementioned subjects. Results of the study indicate that information on subjects that are of interest to women giving birth in Taiwan can be divided into ten categories. The four most important successively are: knowledge on how to take care of the baby, bodily symptoms of the woman giving birth (for example, constipation, lumbago, urinary tract infection, etc.) and related points for attention, how family members (husband, parents-in-law, etc., relatives living in the same household) can assist the woman giving birth (with her dietary needs, taking care of the baby, etc.) as well as how to confront and treat postpartum emotional imbalance or depression. To summarize by adding up the total number of persons using each channel of information, we see that those who took avail of related magazines to become knowledgeable number the most, those who read related books to become knowledgeable are next, followed by those who used the internet to become knowledgeable. The number of times each of these channels were used surpassed 1000 times. As for the relationship between the recognition of the importance of each subject and the filling out of raw data by the women giving birth, we see that for recognition of the importance of each subject the most important characteristics of the women giving birth are mostly women who reside in northern Taiwan, are spending their immediate post-childbirth period at a postpartum nursing care center, are on a diet specially prepared by the postpartum nursing care center, fully respect conventions and taboos, participate in a class to slim their body, believe in Buddhism and do not wish to give birth again.