Health-related quality of life and health needs among Vietnamese immigrant women in Taiwan

Health-related quality of life and health needs among Vietnamese immigrant women in Taiwan

曾藩惇(Duong Van Tuyen)

指導教授 ： 張綠怡

臺北醫學大學/護理學院/護理學研究所/碩士(2013年)

https://doi.org/10.6831/TMU.2013.00036

摘要

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關鍵字

Health needs ； health-related quality of life ； Vietnamese immigrant women

並列摘要

Background: Taiwan recently has been faced with the migration of numbers of women from Southeast Asian (SEA) countries, from Vietnam particularly. The group of immigrant women is highly susceptible to many health problems, due to the barriers of language, culture, financial hardship, and lack of support systems. Consequently, those factors effect on their health-related quality of life and health needs. Purpose: to explore the levels of health-related quality of life and health needs and examine the associations among social demographic variables, health-related quality of life and health needs of Vietnamese immigrant women in Taiwan. Research method: A cross-sectional study was used in this study by using instruments including the demographic inventory; the structured health needs questionnaires; and the short form SF-36 health survey to measure the health-related quality of life. The now-ball sampling methods were utilized to recruit study participants who living in Taipei. Data was analyzed by using the SPSS 18.0. Results: Health needs negatively associated with spouse’s age, religion, and employment status, household income, Chinese confidence, and providing care (p < .05). Health related quality of life components have positive relationship with spouse’s employment status, spouse’s disease or disability, household income, daily Chinese speaking, and Chinese confidence (p < .05). Mental and social health needs significantly negatively related to all components of HRQOL (p < .01). Conclussion: Vietnamese women with higher level of social demographic status and Chinese proficiency have less health needs and better health related quality of life; women with less health needs have better health related quality of life. Multidisciplinary involvement is necessary to reduce health needs and improve health related quality of life among Vietnamese immigrant in Taiwan.

並列關鍵字

Health needs ； health-related quality of life ； Vietnamese immigrant women

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