Vietnamese women's cultural beliefs and practices related to the postpartum period
Vietnamese women's cultural beliefs and practices related to the postpartum period
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DOI：
10.1016/j.midw.2010.02.006
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发表时间：
2011-10-01
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影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Trieu Thi Ngoc Thu
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作者：
Lundberg, Pranee C.;Trieu Thi Ngoc Thu
目的：描述胡志明市越南妇女产后的文化信仰和习俗。设计：采用三角测量法进行描述性横断面研究。地点：越南胡志明市一所大学医院妇产科产后门诊。研究对象：115名越南妇女，95名在第一组，20名在第二组。资料收集与分析：第一组采用问卷调查，第二组采用半结构化深度访谈。两组受试者都被问到了同样的四个开放式问题。这些数据首先通过定性内容分析分别进行分析，然后进行交叉验证。结果：确定了四类：卫生、行为预防措施(躺在火边、保暖、呆在室内和床上休息、避免家务和性行为)、饮食预防措施以及母乳喂养和哺乳。关键结论和实践启示：传统观念和做法在产后对越南妇女产生了很大影响，这些观念和做法往往对妇女和她们的婴儿有利，但有时也有潜在的危害。因此，卫生保健专业人员需要向妇女及其家人提供适当的信息和关怀，同时适当注意文化背景。这些要求使得他们的教育必须包括文化价值观的知识，尤其是在已经成为多元文化的西方国家。(C)2010爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
Objective: to describe cultural beliefs and practices related to the postpartum period among Vietnamese women in Ho Chi Minh City.Design: a descriptive cross-sectional study using triangulation.Setting: the Postpartum Clinic, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of a university hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.Participants: 115 Vietnamese women, 95 in the first group and 20 in the second group.Data collection and analysis: a questionnaire was used with the first group and a semi-structured in-depth interview was used with the second group. Both groups were subjected to the same four open-ended questions. The data obtained were first analysed separately by use of qualitative content analysis and then cross-checked.Findings: four categories were identified: hygiene, behavioural precautions(lying by a fire, keeping warm afterbirth, staying indoors and resting in bed, and avoiding house work and sexual activity), dietary precautions, and breast feeding and lactation.Key conclusion and implications for practice: traditional beliefs and practices, often beneficial to the women and their babies but sometimes potentially harmful, greatly influenced the Vietnamese women during the postpartum period. Therefore, health-care professionals need to give appropriate information and care to the women and their families while paying due attention to the cultural context. These demands make it imperative that knowledge about cultural values be included in their education, not least in Western countries which have become multicultural. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.