임산부의 임신중 생활실태에 관한 관찰 ( IV ) = Observation of Life Patterns of Pregnant Women at Five Medical Institutions in Seoul ( IV )

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper is produced grom the data by interviewing exoectant mothers at 5 medical institutes in Seoul during the period of 20 months between February, 1975 and September, 1976, aiming primarily to elucidate possible association between induced abortion and the outcome of the subsequent pregnancies. Women attending antenatal clinics were interviewed twice before deliverisd and twice afterward. At the first contact 5,843 women were interviewed and 5,024 at the second between 24 and 32 weeks of their gestation periods. This paper is mostlt focussed on behaviors during their pregnancies and main results are summarized as following: 1.As shown in Table 1, 42.3 percent of women sit mostly, 47.5 percent half sit and half walk. the remainder, 10.2 percent mostly sit and walk in pregnancy. The proportion of women sitting mostly from extended family surpasses those from nuclear familt by 7.3 percent, which is probably due to the heavier household works among the former. Women sitting mostly are more often among those in twin pregnancies than singleton whereas those walking or standing mostly show more frequent occurrence of hypertension and edema, probably associated with their lower socio-economic backgrounds. The similarity is found with puerperal complication. 2.At the first interview about one-fourth of women is found to be gainfully em- ployed wgicgis reduced to one-sixth at the second interview. As illustrated in Table 2, collge graduate continues to wof=rk in 22.6 percent, middle or high school level 9.8 percent and primary scheel level 17.5 percent respectively. During the pregnancy, about 5 percent of women is enhahed in either heavy work or handling dust or chemicals, and appears to result in complications and malformations of their newborn more often than others.(see Table 3) 3.During the preganacy 27.4 percent of women experiences either surgical opera= tion, roentgen examination, inoculation or ultrasonic proxedure without an appreciable difference in outcome of preganacy and morbidity of the neqborns. 4.Women during pergnancy take medication for the therapeutic reasons in two -fifths. Multipara tends to take medicine less often compared to primigravida or women with experience of induced abortion in the past(See Table 4). 5.In Korea, smoker among expectant mothers is negligible(0.6%).