• 부모자녀건강학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2013

Purpose: This study is descriptive research to identify characteristics and childbirth experience of women who selected delivery with midwives. Methods: The research methods included structured questionnaires, open questions and charts and data were collected from March 2009 to May 2010 at one midwifery clinic. The 108 data of primipara and multipara were analyzed using descriptive statistics and grouping in same meaning. Results: The general characteristics of participants were age of 31~35, housewife, college or university graduate, religion 'yes', and economic state 'middle'. The obstetric characteristics of participants were abortion rate of 23.1%, none complication to pregnancy and delivery of 97.2%, and none postpartum complication. This study was analyzed using positive experiences of 3 categories, that is 'comfortable and natural childbirth', 'satisfaction and trust to personal care of midwives', and 'experience of baby-and-family-centered childbirth' and negative experiences of 3 categories, that is 'improvement of healthcare environment', 'insufficient facilities and nursing care', and'burden of cost'. Conclusion: This study is significant, since it investigates in the absence of domestic research on the characteristics of women who delivered at midwifery clinic. Thus, this study provided basic data on the characteristics of women who delivered at midwifery clinic.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제11권8호
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• pp.279-285
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• 2020

임산부의 출산 경험에 따른 구강보건에 대한 지식 및 실천도를 확인하고, 구강건강관리 실천도에 영향을 미치는 요인을 파악하고자 한다. 대전광역시 소재 산부인과에 내원 중인 임산부를 대상으로 2019년 3월 2일부터 30일까지 자기기입식 설문조사를 실시하였다. SPSS WIN(ver 19.0) 프로그램을 이용하여 임산부의 구강건강관리에 대한 지식도와 실천도는 출산 경험에 따라 t-test를 실시하였고, 실천도에 영향을 미치는 요인은 다중회귀분석을 실시하였다. 연구결과, 구강건강관리에 대한 지식도는 전신건강행위 문항에서 '출산 무경험인 임부'가 '출산 경험이 있는 임산부'보다 높게 나타났다. 임산부의 구강건강관리 실천도에 영향을 미치는 요인으로 교육수준, 임신 전 구강검진 및 치료 경험, 임신으로 인한 구강상태 변화 경험, 임산부의 구강건강관리 지식도로 나타났고, 설명력은 26.9%이었다. 따라서 임산부의 구강보건교육 대상 범위 확대와 실천율을 향상시킬 수 있는 구강보건교육 프로그램 개발이 필요하다.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제36권12호
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• pp.25-41
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• 1998

HALS(Hypermedia-Aided Learning System) is very useful computer networking educational system in high information society, and was developed by Kyungwon University. This system has three characteristics; 1) face to face learning, 2) ultra high speed information networing, 3) web based hypermedia courseware. So, the purpose of this study is to try the application to pre-parent eucational program(session 4 : becoming parents through the experience of pregnancy and childbirth). For this purpose it is described the definition and characteristics of HALS. Next, it is represented the model of pre-parent educational program applied to HALS and the pictures of the session 4 (initial window, help function window, etc).

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제18권10호
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• pp.657-668
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• 2018

이 연구의 목적은 비혼모가 되기 전 삶과 출산 전 양육비혼모 삶의 경험에 대하여 구조와 본질을 심층적으로 알아보고 이해하기 위함이다. 비혼모 10명을 대상으로 심층개별면담을 통하여 자료를 수집한 후, Colazzi의 현상학적 연구방법을 이용한 질적 연구를 하였다. 연구결과 '상처로 얼룩진 시절' 주제모음은 비혼모가 되기 전 어린 시절 단절된 가족관계와 가족기능의 해체로 인하여 부모에게 버림받거나 보호받지 못한 삶의 경험으로 나타났다. '위태로운 일상' 주제모음은 비혼모들의 이른 학업중단과 가출은 위태로운 생활로 이어졌다. 또한 무분별한 성문화와 낮은 성인식, 태도는 성을 일찍 경험하는 것으로 나타났다. '당혹스러운 임신사실' 주제모음은 비혼부의 피임 거부와 비혼모의 부정확한 피임지식과 피임방법 사용은 원치 않은 임신으로 나타났다. 마지막 주제모음 '힘들게 결정한 출산'은 임신사실을 너무 늦게 인지하여 어쩔 수 없는 출산을 선택하기도 하지만 생명의 소중함을 느껴 낙태를 거부하고 출산을 결정하는 것으로 나타났다. 이상의 연구결과를 바탕으로 비혼모를 대상으로 성교육을 강화 할 뿐 아니라 남성을 대상으로 정확한 피임지식과 방법을 제공하는 성교육 실시의 필요성을 논의하였다.

• 여성건강간호학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.346-357
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• 2020

Purpose: This descriptive phenomenological study aimed to explore the lived experience and meaning of pregnant women's adaptation. Methods: Ten pregnant women from an ongoing Pregnant Couples' Cohort Study agreed to participate in this study. The data were collected through telephone in-depth interviews regarding what they experienced and felt about pregnancy adaptation. The qualitative data were analyzed using Giorgi's method of descriptive phenomenology. Results: Five core situation components were extracted from the raw data, along with 12 themes and 33 focal meanings. The five core situations were 1) first recognizing the pregnancy, 2) pregnancy-related changes, (3) the upcoming birth, 4) the postpartum period, and 5) parenting. The 12 themes were as follows: "anxiety, pressure, and embarrassment due to pregnancy," "efforts to adapt to physical changes," "efforts to adapt to the psychological difficulties of pregnancy," "efforts to adapt to the financial burden and role changes caused by pregnancy," "connecting with the fetus," "adapting to a new marital relationship centering on the baby," "the frustration of childbirth," "fear of childbirth," "postpartum care, need help with lactation planning," "parenting beyond what I imagined," "dad's willingness to participate in parenting," and "career disconnect and consideration of workplace needs." Conclusion: We identified that pregnant women experience adaptation in physical, psychological, relational, and social aspects. The thematic clusters identified can be used to develop nursing interventions to promote women's adaptation to pregnancy.

• 한국보건간호학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.101-113
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• 1994

Maternity means all the women who are capable to conceive. In the aspect of health and medical care. however. it means the women who are now in pregnancy or have already given birth to a baby or are in a period of being recoverd from physiological changes occurred by pregnancy. According to the rapidly changing social structure. both the Quality and Quantity of the capacity of childbirth experienced by women are changing. Our society. having established a great economical growth by virtue of the highly developing and growing industrialization and urbanization. stimulates the women's advance into society and thereby increasing the number of employed women. When the women's participation in society is increased. their age of marriage is also affected. Which means there are a decrease of the capacity of childbirth in terms of quantity and a trend for women to have less children and to deliver a baby in their old age in terms of quality. On the contrary. since the number of multipara who want to have a baby in their old age is increasing. as a counter functional effect to the political project of decrease of a birth rate. concern has been focussed on childbirth in old age in the present study. And also such kind of the childbirth may be danger to the health of both mother and baby. Therefore the present study intended to provide some basic data of health education in the part of the health management of both mother and baby in the general hospital. based on understanding the realities of childbirth in. old age and things related to them. To achieve such a purpose of the present study. an analytical study by means of SPSS. was done using the data of 269 clinical records on both the newborn .babies and their mothers who had been supported by public general hospitals located in Seoul for 3 years from Jan. 1. 1991 to Dec. 31. 1993. Some significant results from the analytic study are as follows: 1. It appeared that the average age of normal. natural delivery was 33.8 years old and the average age of delivery through the cesarean operation was 35.4 years old. 2. It appeared that danger factors to childbirth women were types of the delivery and placental extrusion and danger factors to newborn babies are not so outstanding. 3. It appeared that the variables of the childbirth capacity which showed a significant difference according to each age group of women were the number of pregnancy. number of still birth, and number of existing children. That is. the age group of 'more than 35 years' had more frequency of experience In all 3 variables than the age group of 'less than 35 years'. 4. It appeared that the variables of the childbrith capacity which showed a significant difference a according to the sex of a newborn baby were number of pregnancy, number of still birth, and number of existing children. That is, the age group of 'more than 35 years' had more frequency of experience in all 3 variables than the age group of 'less than 35 years'. 5. It appeared that the health index of newborn babies which showed a significant difference was only 5 minute APGAR. That is, the health index 9.46 in the age group of 'more than 35 years' was less than an index of 9.72 in the age group of 'less than 35 years'. 6. Since a counter correlation of -0.10, as Pearson Correlation Coefficient, was showed between the age of childbirth mothers and the weight of newborn babies, it indicated that the higher age of childbirth woman, the lesser the weight of newborn baby. 7. It appeared that the number of women who had confirmed the sex of their baby before their delivery were 45 women, $67.2\%$ of total 67 women who had delivered a baby. and the expected sex by women in childbed was male with $73.1\%$ of total childbirth women expecting male birth and with their expression of feeling of female delivery. very regretful' by $39.3\%$ of total childbirth women. The results as shown above may indicate that instead of the possibility of danger to both the mother delivering a baby in old age and the baby delivered, the expectation of getting a son motivates childbirth in old age. As a conclusion, in a dimension of general hospital as well as national reform. it is required that a program of health education for childbirth in late maternal age have to be developed in the part of the health management of both mother and baby in the near future.

• 대한한방부인과학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.65-78
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• 2021

Objectives: This study was aimed to investigate the weight change of the high-risk group and the general maternal group and weight-relating factors in the early postpartum period. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of those who received postpartum care from January 1, 2020, to December 31, 2020, in the postpartum care center affiliated with one Korean Medicine hospital. A total of 257 postpartum women's medical charts were included and divided into the high-risk group and the general maternal group. We investigated the weight changes and Body mass index (BMI) of the postpartum women and compared the difference between the two groups after taking the postpartum care. Finally, we used a Pearson correlation analysis to identify the weight-relating factors in the early postpartum period. Results: All the postpartum women showed the following results; 33.81±4.03 years old as the mean age; 22.23±3.28 as pre-pregnancy BMI; 58.21±9.18 kg of pre-pregnancy weight increased into 70.75±9.70 kg in the last month of pregnancy. Of the total 257 patients, 149 (58.0%) of high-risk pregnancy experience and 108 (42.0%) of general pregnancy were included. The edema index right after childbirth was significantly higher in the high-risk group than in the general maternal group (p<0.001), but there was no significant difference in BMI. After treatment with Korean medicine treatments, body weight, BMI, and edema index decreased significantly in both groups (p<0.01). As a result of correlation analysis, weight gain during pregnancy had a significant negative correlation with pre-pregnancy weight and pre-pregnancy BMI and a significant positive correlation with weight and BMI of the last month of pregnancy. In particular, pre-pregnancy BMI and body weight showed a significant negative correlation only in the high-risk group. Postpartum weight loss was significantly positively correlated with pre-pregnancy weight, pre-pregnancy BMI, weight & BMI of the pregnancy last month, weight gain during pregnancy, and decrease in edema (p<0.01) Conclusions: The weight during pregnancy of the high-risk group increased in inverse proportion to the pre-pregnancy BMI. The level of edema right after childbirth was significantly higher than that of the general maternal group, but showed a significant decrease after 2 weeks of Korean medicine treatments. Although it implicates the need for active Korean medicine treatments in the early postpartum period, further studies with controlled groups are needed.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.535-542
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• 2019

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Proper nutrition intake during pregnancy and lactation is very important to both mothers and babies. Pregnant women should maintain proper nutritional status to restore decreased physical strength due to pregnancy and childbirth and produce breastmilk for the growth and development of the baby. Recently, the number of Chinese people living in Korea has increased as the exchange between Korea and China becomes active. It is important to provide proper nutrition education for pregnant women of both countries considering cultural differences. SUBJECTS/METHODS: The subjects of this study were postpartum women in Gyeonggi, South Korea and Jinhua, China. The subjects were 20-45 years old less than six months after childbirth. A survey, using self-administered questionnaires, was conducted from October 2018 to January 2019. For data analysis, 221 Korean postpartum women (KPW) and 221 Chinese postpartum women (CPW) questionnaires were used. RESULTS: KPW had significantly higher nutritional knowledge score and dietary attitude score than CPW (P < 0.001). However, overall score for dietary habits was significantly higher in CPW compared to KPW (P < 0.001). In KPW, nutritional knowledge (P < 0.01) and dietary attitude (P < 0.001) had significantly positive correlations with dietary habits. The proportions of KPW and CPW who answered that they had experience of nutrition education were 28.5% and 80.1% (P < 0.001). The score for dietary habits was lower as the hours for watching TV and using mobile phone became longer in postpartum women of both countries, with significant differences in KPW (P < 0.001) and CPW (P < 0.05). In KPW, the score for dietary habits in postpartum women with exercise experience was significantly higher than that in postpartum women without exercise experience (P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: More pregnancy-related nutrition education should be provided and various and effective nutrition education programs, which not only transfer information but can be practiced in the actual life, should be developed.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제10권11호
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• pp.477-484
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• 2012

날로 증가하고 있는 다문화가정의 이주여성이 한국의 농촌에서 겪는 임신과 출산경험의 의미의 본질을 밝히고자 현상학적 연구 방법으로 분석하였다. 자료수집은 A 농촌지역에 거주하는 다문화가정의 결혼이주여성 9명을 대상으로 심층 면담을 하여 녹취하였다. 자료 분석은 Colaizzi의 현상학적 방법에 의해 분석하였다. 연구 결과 다문화가정 여성의 임신과 출산 경험을 통해서 한국사회로의 삶이 전환되는 과정은 4개의 범주와 9개의 주제 모음이 도출되었다. 최종으로 도출된 4개의 범주는 '미지의 세계에 대한 기대', '새로운 위기를 겪음', '고통 속에서 피어나는 행복감', '새 생명 속에서 희망을 느낌-삶의 전환'으로 도출되었다. 이러한 연구 결과는 결혼을 전제로 새로운 삶을 시작하는 다문화가정의 여성들이 한국에서의 적응 과정에서 겪는 어려움을 이해하고 이에 대한 문제점을 도울 수 있는 적극적인 적응 프로그램 운영을 위한 자료를 제공하고자 하였다.

• 여성건강간호학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.85-97
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• 2012

Purpose: This study was done to explore the lived experience of pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and early child rearing in married immigrant women in urban areas. Methods: Data were collected from February to April, 2011 through in-depth interviews. Nine immigrant women were selected in a metropolitan area through the purposive and snowball sampling method. After obtaining IRB permission and informed consent from the participants, all interviews were recorded with MP3 recorder and transcribed for analysis. Using the phenomenological approach, data collected through in-depth interviewing were analyzed following Colaizzi style. Results: Data analysis revealed 4 categories and 10 themes related to pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and early child rearing of married immigrant women in urban areas. These four categories were 'A clumsy foreigner's life with nostalgia', 'Crisis in the crisis', 'Unprepared for motherhood', and 'Living together with new family without regrets'. It was a common finding that they were not ready to be mothers because of the very short time for adjustment in Korea. Compared to rural, immigrant women urban women had various in social support systems. Conclusion: The results indicate that adequate education is needed for immigrant women regarding motherhood, and that this education should be culturally appropriate for these women.