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KMID : 0926620200250040029
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Korean Journal of Hospital Management
2020 Volume.25 No. 4 p.29 ~ p.37
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Effects of using Postpartum Care Services on the Health-Related Quality of Life in Women after birth
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Jeong Jae-Yeon
Cha Sun-Jung
Gu Yeo-Jeong
Yoo Ki-Bong
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Abstract
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Purposes: This study purposed to identify influence of postpartum care services on health-related quality of life in women after birth.
Methodology: Korea Health Panel Survey 2009-2015 provided by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs and National Health Insurance Service was used for the analysis. The health-related quality of life evaluate as a EuroQoL-5D(EQ-5D-3L, used the weight of the CDC) was used as dependent variables. Postpartum care services was used as independent variable. Demographic factors(education, economic activity, region, house income), health related variable(presence of chronic disease, self-rated health), birth related variable(birth-related problem, childbirth, pregnancy of advanced maternal age) used as covariates. Regression analysis was used.
Findings: The rate of use of postpartum care services is increasing year by year. Postpartum care services and self-rated health positively influence on the health-related quality of life in women after birth and chronic disease and birth-related problem negatively influence on.
Practical Implications: Therefore, it is necessary that the government?s policy of the postpartum care service be expanded and systematized to increase accessibility on. There are rare studies on the health-related quality of life of women after childbirth, adjusted for birth-related variables. So this study has significance.
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KEYWORD
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Postpartum care service, Quality of life, EQ-5D-3L, linear regression, OLS
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