The Relationship between Family Structure, Family Harmony, and Drinking Moderation Behavior in Indigenous Women of Childbearing Age

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Title:	The Relationship between Family Structure, Family Harmony, and Drinking Moderation Behavior in Indigenous Women of Childbearing Age
Authors:	WANG, LING-MIN
Contributors:	健康產業管理學系長期照護組碩士在職專班
Keywords:	Aborigines;women of childbearing age;family structure;degree of family harmonization;drinking;drinking control
Date:	2017
Issue Date:	2017-09-15 03:14:17 (UTC+0)
Publisher:	亞洲大學
Abstract:	Abstract Background Health problems that cause by drinking become an important topic that leads to global attention. The number of people who drink among the Aboriginal tribes has been increased gradually throughout the years, and it seems that the drinking rate is much higher than the pre-dominated ethnic group, which in turn caused family problems (between spouse and parenthood), as well as affecting the degree of harmonization among family members. The prevalence drinking rate for women from Aboriginal tribes in life has reached 67.7%, and 40% of these women had experienced quarrels with their husbands or family members, which implies the drinking problem is impacting the degree of their family harmonization; and yet the alcohol addiction becomes the main cause for increasing percentages for Grand-parenting and Single-parenting. Therefore, this research thesis will be focusing on the correlation between the Aboriginal women of childbearing age from different family structure and degree of family harmonization and their drinking habits, as well as to the effect of application of alcohol drinking control. Goal The aim of this research study is divided into four parts, namely: (1) To understand the distribution of Aboriginal women of childbearing age with drinking habits to their respective differences in family structure; (2) To understand the correlation between Aboriginal women of childbearing age with drinking habits and their respective differences in degree of family harmonization; (3) To compare the changes in behavior of Aboriginal women of childbearing age with drinking habit after engaging themselves into the alcohol drinking control advocacy program, while also taken into consideration of the differences in family structures (i.e. the changes in the frequency of drinking); (4) To compare the changes in behavior of Aboriginal women of childbearing age with drinking habit after engaging themselves into the alcohol drinking control advocacy program, while also taken into consideration of the differences in degree of family harmonization (i.e. changes in the frequency of drinking). Technique The data mining technique adopted by this research study is regarded as the secondary database mining. The original data came from the research study of “The correlation between healthy behavior of Aboriginal women of childbearing age and the reproductive harm”, part of the Year 101 annual outsourcing Technology Research Program conducted by the National Health Service of the Department of Health and Welfare. The participants selected for this research study program covered all Aboriginal women of childbearing age who live in 9 villages of Zen-Ai area, and of which 67 with drinking habits were selected for the study. Moreover, when considering the completeness of the pre- and post-test scores on the degree of family harmonization surveys filled out by these participants, the sample size was down to 52. The software used for statistical analysis was the SPSS 22.0, by launching a descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. Result Majority of the Aboriginal women of childbearing age, with or without drinking habits, come from Joint Family Structure; and the Nuclear/Core Family Structure comes secondly. There is no correction established between the degree of family harmonization and the differences in drinking frequency. Whether or not a team is succeed in alcohol drinking control, majority of the team members come from the Joint Family Structure. Fifty percent (or higher) of the members from both teams, success and without success in alcohol drinking control, consciously felt that the degree of their family harmonization has been affected, which implies that the success of alcohol drinking control does not impact or change the degree of family harmonization. Conclusion and Recommendation It is the nature tendency for Aborigines to live in groups and drinking is their way of communicating to relatives and friends, as well as being regarded as an important method for social interaction. Aboriginal women that participated in the alcohol drinking control advocacy program is also a member from a large family group, it is difficult for them as an individual to have the influence over their family or relatives as this drinking habit has prolong into the Aboriginal history of life. Therefore, it is suggested that to extend the alcohol drinking control advocacy program to tribes and target tribes as the basis for the advocacy program to enhance better understanding and gain more support from relatives and friends, and hence increase the success of the program.
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