Childbearing KAP in Minority of Southeast Asian

Abstract

Background: With increasing transnational marriage between Taiwanese men and Southeast Asian women, concerns of childbearing health among foreign women are becoming important in Taiwan. Understanding the childbearing health knowledge, attitudes and behaviors among ethnic minority of Southeast Asian women in Taiwan is critical to promote their childbearing process and manner.Purpose: The purpose of this presentation is to explore the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of childbearing in Southeast Asian women and provide reference in developing health intervention for these ethnic minority women.Methodology: Design: The study used a structured interview with a purposive sampling. Participants: A total of 50 Southeast Asian women who were married to Taiwanese men participated in the study. Data collection: An individual face-to-face interview was used with four instruments including the Demographic Inventory, Childbearing Knowledge Scale, Childbearing Attitude Scale, and Childbearing Planning Scale.Findings: The participants of foreign women have an average age below 24, and over 70% of them were educated less than 9 years in their home countries. Thirty-six percentages of women reported no experience of participation in a health program of childbearing. Near 60% of foreign women had not planned a specific time to have children. Thirty-two percent of participatory women didn't know how many kids they were going to have Sixteen percentages of the foreign women didn't know the contraceptive methods. More than forty percent of these women didn't adopt the contraceptive prevention.Summary Concluding Statement: The participants of foreign women have low social-economic status. They were seldom to contact with childbearing health information in their home countries, and also seldom for using various avenues to acquire information of childbearing. Foreign women in the study got lower score on the questions on childbearing health knowledge and contraceptive methods. These foreign women tended not to obtain information from the media, books, newspapers, and schools. Background: With increasing transnational marriage between Taiwanese men and Southeast Asian women, concerns of childbearing health among foreign women are becoming important in Taiwan. Understanding the childbearing health knowledge, attitudes and behaviors among ethnic minority of Southeast Asian women in Taiwan is critical to promote their childbearing process and manner. Purpose: The purpose of this presentation is to explore the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of childbearing in Southeast Asian women and provide reference in developing health intervention for these ethnic minority women. Methodology: Design: The study used a structured interview with a purposive sampling. Participants: A total of 50 Southeast Asian women who were married to Taiwanese men participated in the study. Data collection: An individual face-to-face interview was used with four instruments including the Demographic Inventory, Childbearing Knowledge Scale, Childbearing Attitude Scale, and Childbearing Planning Scale. Findings: The participants of foreign women have an average age below 24, and over 70% of them were educated less than 9 years in their home countries. Thirty-six percentages of women reported no experience of participation in a health program of childbearing. Near 60% of foreign women had not planned a specific time to have children. Thirty-two percent of participatory women didn't know how many kids they were going to have Sixteen percentages of the foreign women didn't know the contraceptive methods. More than forty percent of these women didn't adopt the contraceptive prevention. Summary Concluding Statement: The participants of foreign women have low social-economic status. They were seldom to contact with childbearing health information in their home countries, and also seldom for using various avenues to acquire information of childbearing. Foreign women in the study got lower score on the questions on childbearing health knowledge and contraceptive methods. These foreign women tended not to obtain information from the media, books, newspapers, and schools.