This survey was carried out on total 375 fertilizable women who lived in Daejeon area in cluding 76 teachers, 76 nurses (plus public health nurses in local areas), 75 telephone operators 73 women worker in the tobacco factory and 75 house wives. (middle class), from August 7 to 24, 1976. As the results of the questionnaries and interview, the following conclusions were obtained.
1) The recognition and utilization on the maternal protection law.
The recognition on the maternal protection law was relatively low, the telephone operator´s did not know the rule of night duty probibition(57.3%) and the overtime work prohibition (64. 0%). The telephone operator´s did not had the benefit of the night duty prohibition (94. 7%), and overtime work prohibition (90.7%).
All the women worker in the tobacco, and telephone operator´s understood special holiday and really they recived it, while 52.6% nurses didn´t have an information about that rule. Nurses and teachers were not given any benefits.
In regard to the transfer to light work during the period of maternity, just half (50%) of the nurses and teachers had an information about that rule. More than 85% other women workers didn´t have benefits, differently from other workers.
In regard to the permission of feeding, the rate that the women worker in tobacco understood is 100%. They took advantage of that rule indeed, while 92% of teachers and aures didn´t recieved a favor from their places of work.
All who was asked about holiday of before and after birth understood perfectly, 60) days were given telephone operators, and women worker in the tobacco, 30 days for the teachers and nurses. Teachers and nurses got informations about maternal health through mass communication, telephone operators and women worker in the tobacco learned of it in their place of work.
2) Complication of pregnancy 88.2% teachers experienced morning sickness, more over 43.4% suffered from severe condition indicates high proportion. While house wives had an experience of morning sickness relatively low. ie, 72% of house wives under went morning sikeness and among them 24% is severe(p<0.01).
And 79% of teachers suffered from edema, and among them 27.7% is grave, compare with female workers in other post (52%) house wives (17.3%)(pTelephone operators experienced cramps (82.3%) and 38.7% was graves, while 45.3. %of house wives experienced those symptom and 10. 7% (pAbout the problem of varicose veins 30.7% of telephone operators suffered from it-and high proportion of 12% is rather severe, while 14. 1% of house wives suffered fro. m that symptom and 2.7% is severe(p<0.01).
In case of toxemia of pregnancy, it is a high rate, is. 9. 6% of women worker in the tobacco suffered from those sickness and among them 2.7% were forced to be treated at admission. But only 2.7% of house wives who were suffered from toxemia of pregnancy had clinic treatment(p<0. 01).
3) Antepartal and postpartal care
Generally speaking, 93.4% of nurses have ever taken antepartal and postpartal over one time. On the other hand, house wives show 72%.
Teachers were taken regular care at the rate of 57.8% while women workers in the tobacco appeared 27.6%(p<0.01).
About the place of delivery, 52.6% of Teachers gave birth in the hospital but 28% of housewives die in the hospital 14.5% of teachers and 13.2% of nurses were. deliveried with cesarean section. In cases of house wives, the ratio of cesarean section were low by 2.4%, compared with teachers and nurses(p<0.01).
And 81.3% of house wives answered that condition of lactation is good and mother´s. milk is enough for their baby, but nurses appeared low percentage by 47.4% (pIn regard of breast feeding, it was taken by 69.3% of housewives, while among-the workers women in the tobacco took the method of breast feeding at the top rate of 49.5% 61.3% of telephone operators took an artificial feeding and 9.3% of house-wives did it. About the mixed feeding 65.8% of nurses took this method of feeding and it is the highest ratio. And it was taken by house wives in the ratio of 65.8%, (P<0.01).
Concerning the problems of resuming menstruation and birth control, telephone,coperators discovered their resuming menstruetion in the average 5. 7 months, and the average of resuming menstruation of house wives is 11.5 months(p´0. 01) 69. 3% of house wives didn´t practice birth control when this survey was performed, it is the highest of all While conly 17. 1% of nurses didn´t practice the birth control at that time, the lowest rate(p<0.01).
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