Quality of life in postpartum women and the associated factors:a survey in a community in Beijing
- VernacularTitle:北京市某社区产后妇女生活质量及影响因素分析
- Author:
Zhihong ZHANG
;
Weiwei LIU
;
Chuan YUE
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Quality of life;
Postpartum period;
Women;
Community health services
- From:
Chinese Journal of Health Management
2008;2(5):288-291
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To evaluate health-related quality of life in postpartum women and investigate the associated factors.Methods A questionnaire was designed to investigate the general situation of 419 postpartum women in Beijing,and use MOSSF-36 questionnaire (SF-36)developed by American Medical Outcome Research Group to evaluate and analyze their quality of life.Participants were stratified according to education level,age,occupation or family income and the SF-36 profiles in whole sample or in subgroups were compared.Results There are significant differences among different education level groups in PF and RE categories(both P＜0.05);among different age groups in RP,BP,VT,SF,RE categories (all P＜0.05);and among different occupation groups in PF,VT and SF(all P＜0.05).There is no difference among different income groups in all categories (P＞0.05).Conclusions Different age, occupation,education level,mother's and infant's age and depression play important roles in the quality of life in community postpartum women.
