Mi Yu

Influence of Marital Intimacy, Family Support, and Fatigue on the Stress of Pregnant Woman

During pregnancy, the woman experiences physical and psycho-social changes. Such changes and other factors may become stress for the pregnant woman, making it difficult to maintain healthy and happy pregnant period. In this study, we identify factors for the stress, marital intimacy, family support, and fatigue, in order to provide the foundation for developing intervention programs and improve the quality of nursing. The subjects of there search were 185 pregnant women. Stress had a negative correlation with marital intimacy and family support, and positive correlation with fatigue. Family support, fatigue, adjustment to change due to pregnant, and breastfeeding experience were the influencing factors on the stress of pregnant women. A stress management program for pregnant women needs to be designed to help them with their physical and psychological adjustments. The program will be more effective when accompanied by the family support.

A study on factors affecting nursing student's cultural competency

This study examined factors affection nursing students’ cultural competency, and the relationship between cultural competency and multicultural acceptability in Korea. The answer sheets from 218 respondents were gathered, and 200 of them were analyzed except for 18 incomplete ones. The study participants included 24 males (12.0%) and 176 females (88.0%). As the result of stepwise regression analysis, the facts which affected to cultural competency were having an experience of multicultural education (β=.363, p=<.001), civic action intention (β=.204, p=.026), and having an acquaintance of other cultural area (β=.162, p=.042). This result showed that nursing students with experience of multicultural education, high citizen will of action, and having an acquaintance of other cultural area tended to have higher levels of cultural competency. The model explained 28.4% of the variables. These finding demonstrate the fundamental importance of raising the level of cultural competency, thus, there is a need for continuous effort to integrate multicultural education programs in the nursing curriculum.