| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 護理學系碩博士班 === 96 === Data were indicated that approximately 70% to 80% of the Down syndrome babies were delivered by mothers aged below 34 years old. Women in normal childbearing age are recommended to receive the maternal serum screening (MSS) to enhance the prenatal genetic health. Therefore, for those immigrated female spouse, the MSS would be their first genetic test while they were pregnant. Because of the language barrier, health professionals experienced great challenges to achieve of informed choice of MSS in immigrated pregnant women. In order to enhance these immigrated female spouses’ competent to perform informed choice of receiving the MSS, there was a need to understand the women’s informed choice of MSS. Due to the studies regarding the informed choice for women receiving MSS were few, the purpose of the study was to examine the informed choice of MSS in Vietnamese and Taiwanese women. A retrospective study design and the convenient sampling were used to examine the research hypotheses. Eighty-three Vietnamese female spouses and the same number of the Taiwanese women were recruited to participate of the study. The questionnaire based on the concepts of MMIC was developed by the researcher to collect the data. Results of the study show that (1)Taiwanese female spouses’ informed choice and knowledge of MSS were higher than those of Vietnamese women; (2)both of Taiwanese and Vietnamese women displayed positive attitude toward MSS; (3)The major predictors of informed choice of MSS in Taiwanese and Vietnamese female spouses respectively were the consistency of uptake and attitude of MSS and the knowledge of MSS; (4) knowledge of MSS was not the major predictor of the consistency of attitude and uptake the screening; (5) more than 50% of all the research subjects did not understand that MSS was not an obligated prenatal test. Lastly, results of the research could be adopted as the reference to formulate the standards of conducting MSS.
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