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KMID : 1003020140150020130
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Qualitative Research
2014 Volume.15 No. 2 p.130 ~ p.145
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Motherhood Experience of North Korean Women Defectors: Focused on Multipara in Their Thirties or Forties Delivering in South Korea
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Jeong Hyun-Sook
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Abstract
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Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to understand the motherhood experience of North Korean Women Defectors delivering in South Korea.
Methods: The raw data was gathered through in-depth interviews with seven North Korean Women Defectors from July 2010 to June 2012. All of the data was analyzed through the method proposed by Colaizzi (1978).
Results: This study extracted 25 formulated meanings arranged in six themes. The six themes were ’Taste a new world from the new experience of being pregnant’, ‘A painful body and mind with no relying on’, ‘The child becomes the source of vitality’, ‘Burden of a mother’s role different from that of North Korea’, ‘Concern that mother’s status as a North Korean woman defector may harm one’s child’, ‘Put all effort into making a life for the sake of the child’.
Conclusion: This findings might provide insight for future maternity related policies and nursing strategies targeting North Korean Women defectors.
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KEYWORD
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Mothers, North Korean women defectors, Delivery, South Korea, Qualitative research
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