J Korean Soc Matern Child Health.  2021 Oct;25(4):282-291. 10.21896/jksmch.2021.25.4.282.

The Influencing Factors on Health-Related Quality of Life in Childbearing Women Based on the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) 2019 Data

• Lee J

• KMID: 2521996
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.21896/jksmch.2021.25.4.282

Abstract

Purpose
This study was conducted to identify the influencing factors on health-related quality of life in childbearing women.
Methods
This study used data from the 2019 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The participants were 1,348 women aged 19–49 years.
Results
Health-related quality of life in childbearing women affecting factors are stress level, depression recognition, self-related health, and current smoking, having 40.1% explaining power (F=59.94, p=0.05).
Conclusion
Personal mental health care programs and nonsmoking programs should be developed to improve health-related quality of life in childbearing women. There is a need to establish a section dedicated to women's health promotion, and the section makes a policy for women's health care according to the life cycle dedicated to women's health promotion.

Keyword

Quality of life, Childbearing women

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  Fig. 1. Flow chart of the study sample.

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