1Professor, College of Nursing, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea
2Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Korean Bible University, Seoul, Korea
3Instructor, College of Nursing, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea
4Associate Professor, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea
5Professor, Department of Food and Nutrition, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea
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Conflict of interest
The authors declared no conflict of interest.
Funding
This study was supported by Chungnam National University Research Fund (PI: Cha, E).
Authors’ contributions
EunSeok Cha contributed to conceptualization, formal analysis, funding acquisition, methodology, project administration, writing-original draft, review & editing, investigation, resources, supervision, and validation. Sojung Lee contributed to conceptualization, methodology, writing-original draft, review & editing, investigation, and validation. Gui-Nam Kim contributed to conceptualization, project administration, writing - original draft, and validation. Byung Hun Kang contributed to conceptualization, resources, and validation. Min-Sun Jeon contributed to conceptualization, formal analysis, funding acquisition, methodology, writing-review & editing, investigation, resources, supervision, and validation.
Data availability
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Acknowledgments
The authors are grateful to the undergraduate nursing students who took Global Health and Nursing in 2022, Ms. Jihyeon Kwon (Medical Social Worker) and the staff at the Healthy Family Support Center in Daejeon who provided feedback on the educational materials and methods of the pilot prenatal program. The authors appreciate Ms. Hae-Ju Jang, Young-Hee Min, Hae-Jeong Kim, Yu-Bin Park, and Jin-Kyeong Kim for providing lectures to the multicultural women at the community center. In addition, the research team acknowledges the contribution of CareArt, Inc., which provided a carry-on educational booklet adapted from lecture slides for the participants.
Theme & Title | Content | Educator | Comment | |
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1 | Self-care during pregnancy | • Self-care in routine days | • A retired nurse with more than 20 years of OB/GYN clinical experiences | Education materials was reviewed by an OB/GYN doctor |
• Situations for a visiting clinic, hospital or ER | ||||
2 | Nutrition in pregnancy | • Significance of balanced Nutrition in pregnancy | • A nutritionist attending a graduate program who has community nutrition education experiences | Education materials was reviewed by a senior nutritionist |
• Nutrition counseling based on individual and cultural differences | ||||
3 | Becoming multicultural mothers in Korea | • Understanding cultures with music activities | • An experienced music therapist in medical field and community | |
(e.g., colored music notation, Boomwhackers, handbells) | ||||
• Reducing stress & positive coping related to pregnancy | ||||
4 | Utilizing social and community resources | • Introducing available community resources and referral systems for pregnant women and their families living in Korea | • A nurse attending a graduate program | Education materials was reviewed by a medical social worker |
5 | Breastfeeding | • Preparing breastfeeding in pregnancy | • An international board-certified lactation consultant with nursing license who actively works in a community | Education materials was reviewed by a PhD nurse scientist |
• Problem solving during breastfeeding | ||||
6 | Self-care in the labor and postpartum period | • Signs for labor | • Same educator in session 1 | Reviewed by an OB/GYN doctor |
• Signs and symptoms in labor process | ||||
• Expected medical treatments in admission | ||||
• Self-care activities after discharge |
Q1 | Tell me about how you knew the program and what motivated you to participate in it. |
Q2 | Tell me about whether the program would be helpful for promoting self-care activities in multicultural women who would be in pregnancy, labor, and postpartum period. |
(probe) Which content would be helpful or unhelpful? Is there any reason why? | |
Q3 | With regard to education content, mode, and method, are there things or places we can do better in the next time? |
Q4 | What would be considered and/or need to be improved, if the research team conduct a full-fledged program in a community in a future? |
- Which content may need to add/delete/ modify? | |
- If the research team develops another health promotion program for multicultural women and their families, which program would be appropriate and why? | |
Participant | Age | Country of Origin | Residing year in Korea | Perceived financial condition | Education completed | Religion | Education experience in Korea |
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A | 41 | Uzbekistan | 13 | Moderate | High school | Muslim | X |
B | 34 | Mongolia | 10 | Affluent | Master program | Other | O |
C | 24 | Vietnam | 3 | Moderate | High school | Catholic | X |
D | 34 | Vietnam | 4 | Moderate | Elementary school | Other | O |
E | 42 | Vietnam | 13 | Moderate | College | Other | O |
F | 44 | Thailand | 12 | Moderate | Master program | Buddhism | O |