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KMID : 0367020050170040548
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Journal of Korean Academic of Adult Nursing
2005 Volume.17 No. 4 p.548 ~ p.560
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Experience of High Risk Women Who Have Congenital Heart Disease : Transition to Parenthood
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Choi Kyoung-Sook
Jun Myung-Hee
Lee Heung-Jae
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Purpose: High risk women with congenital heart disease decide to get pregnancy is determined by not individual autonomous intention but complex interaction with their physical status and socio-psychological environments. This study tried to the answer to the question. : “What is experience high risk women who have congenital heart disease during transition to parenthood?”.
Method: A micro- ethnographic research method and oral historic research approach were done at the Grown-Up Congenital Heart Disease Clinic in one Korean metropolitan city from July 2002 to September 2003.
Result: It was discovered that high risk women’s experience of transitional parenthood is accounted as the process of lonely and fearful self-accomplishment. Their need for self- accomplishment creates them seek more opportunities to increase enduring abilities for their parenthood.
Conclusion: We suggest that from the time of beginning of patient’s making decisions about becoming pregnant, collaborative efforts must be considered that priority level of patient’s needs be reviewed and find appropriate advices for their situation. Special counseling program should be provided to all the prospective parents with understanding their meaning of parenthood.
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