Poster Presentation
Thursday, July 12, 2007
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Thursday, July 12, 2007
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
A Preliminary Study of Women's Mental Health
Ying-Hui Lee, MSN, Department of Nursing, Min-Hwei College of Health Care Management, Taiwan, Tainan, Taiwan and Bih-Ching Shu, PhD, RN, Department of Nursing and Institute of Allied Health Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, Tainan, Taiwan.
| Learning Objective #1: The learner will be able to understand the women’s mental health in the southern of Taiwan. |
| Learning Objective #2: The learner will be able to understand the relationship between demographic variables, personality trait, life cycle and women mental health in the southern of Taiwan. |
The purpose of this study was to understand the women’s mental health and the relationship between some related factors including demographic variables, personality trait, life cycle and mental health (Self, Interpersonal Relationship, Family and Society) in the southern of Taiwan. A cross-sectional design was used in this study. Two hundred and forty eight women were selected in our study. Data were collected from October to November in 2005. The following self-administered questionnaires were used including 1. Eysenck personality questionnaires (EPQ), measuring their personality characteristics 2. Taiwan women mental health scale, scoring their mental health. Statistical software, SPSS 11.0 (English Version) was used in data management and analysis
The results showed that: (1) women who were married and having children had higher score in mental health of family domain. The correlation between four domains of mental health (self, interpersonal relationship, family and society) and employed status, religion, educational level were not significant; (2) the correlation between extroversion personality and three domains of mental health (self, interpersonal relationship, and society) were positive; the correlation between neurotic personality and three domains of mental health (self, interpersonal relationship, and family) were negative; (3) extroversion personality, neurotic personality and life cycle were the most important variables to predict women’s mental health.
The study would be helpful for us to understand mental health in women, and may have implication to develop interventions for promoting women’s mental health.