| Abstract: | Background
For a long time, drinking characterizes the indispensable common feature of social activities. However, excessive drinking will raise the risk of acquiring chronic diseases and further burden to the society. For example, drinking during pregnancy will cause fetal alcohol syndrome or premature birth complications, which is harmful to the health and development of the newborns. Taiwan's aboriginal population, occupying about 2% of the total population, possesses high alcohol consumption prevalence. For example, the prevalence rate of drinking in aboriginal married women is 67.7%. Several results have showed that the intervention of health education has impact on drinking behavior. Therefore, this study intends to exam the influencing factors on various types of health promotion activities those aboriginal women with drinking habits have participated.
Objective
There are two objectives in this research, namely: (1) to understand the distribution of health promotion activities participated by aboriginal women in different degrees of drinking moderation; (2) to analyze the influencing factors of various types of health promotion activities those aboriginal women in child-bearing ages have participated.
Method
This study adopted a secondary data analysis. The source of data came from the research project of "The Study on The Health Behavior and Reproductive Risk Factors among Aboriginal Woman of Child-Bearing Ages in Year 2012", authorized by Health Promotion Administration. After screening the data bank, we retrieved 30 aboriginal women of childbearing ages and drinking habits, living in 9 villages of Ren-Ai Township of Nantou County as our research subjects. SPSS software for Windows12.0 version was employed as a statistical tool to execute the descriptive analyses, bivariate analysis and linear regression analysis.
Results
The results showed, "occupation", "invitation of friends and neighbors", and "medical professionals’ recommendation", will affect aboriginal women of childbearing age to participate more health promotion activities. For example, “invitation of friends and neighbors” (ß=0.574), and "medical professionals’ recommendation" (ß=0.574) have positive effects on aboriginal women’ behavior to participate in the engagement of drinking moderation during pregnancy declaration. Similarly, "occupation" (ß = 0.614), and "medical professionals’ recommendation" (ß=1.093) have positive effects on aboriginal women’ willingness to participate in the handicrafts consensus camp. In addition, household wives (ß = 0.677) tended to participate frequently in the “alcohol abstinence health promotion program” and “quitting betel-nut chewing health promotion program”.
Conclusion& Suggestion
Invitation of friends and neighbors, and medical professionals’ recommendation indeed can influence the intention of aboriginal women to participate in various health promotion activities. Hopefully, continuous financial subsidy can ensure the versatility of health promotion activities. In addition, the study’s results also showed the design of health promotion should be more feasible on time schedule, with the help of friends and neighbors’ invitation, as well as medical professionals’ recommendation, the aboriginal women would be encouraged to participate more health promotion activities. |
