Women’s Quality of Life and Their Health Awareness by Age at the First Childbirth and Age at the Last Childbirth
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37506/mlu.v19i1.975Keywords:
Quality of life (QoL), Subjective health status, Childbirth age, Birth interval, KNHANES.Abstract
Background/Objectives: The aim of this study was to prove how factors associated with childbirth related variables affect women’s quality of life (QoL) and their health awareness.
Method/Statistical Analysis: This study is a secondary analysis that uses the raw data collected through the KNHANES between 2013 and 2015.A total of 5,698 subjects were selected for this study among 22,948 participants who completed the KNHANES between 2013 and 2015. This study used the SPSS win 19 program to analyze data and a complex sample- general linear model was used to analyze quality of life by examining childbirth related variables.
Findings: While childbirth affected women’s QoL and their health awareness when their first childbirth occurred prior to 20 years of age, it did not affect women’s QoL and their perceived health conditions when the first childbirth occurred after age 20.
Improvements/Applications: Study results can be used to alter women’s perceptions of childbirth if they avoiding giving birth due to an assumption that it will have a negative influence on their QoL and health.
