Ayaz Sultan, Efe Sengul Yaman
Gazi University School of Nursing, Ankara, Turkey.
Eur J Contracept Reprod Health Care. 2008 Sep;13(3):282-8. doi: 10.1080/13625180802049427.
Culturally embedded attitudes and beliefs affect people's lifestyle and health. Traditional practices such as bathing the baby in salt water to prevent him from smelling bad, regarding pregnancy as a shameful situation, and concealing pregnancy, may cause harm. This descriptive study aimed at identifying potentially harmful practices of married women during pregnancy, delivery and postpartum, in Turkey.
The sample studied consisted of 121 women. A questionnaire was used to gather information during face-to-face interviews.
Eighty percent of the respondents were literate/primary school graduates, 45% had given birth at home. The most potentially harmful practices among women were swaddling (81%), dressing the baby with a sand-filled nappy ('holluk') (35%), and bathing the baby in salt water (40%). A relationship between traditional postpartum practices and demographic characteristics of women such as age, educational status, age at marriage and birth place was observed (p<0.05).
Turkish women still carry out certain traditional practices during and after pregnancy, some of which adversely affect them or their babies. It is important to gain an understanding of these potentially harmful customs and cultural beliefs so that health education programmes can be implemented that dissuade women from resorting to these practices.
文化中根深蒂固的态度和观念会影响人们的生活方式和健康。一些传统做法，如用盐水给婴儿洗澡以防止其有异味、将怀孕视为羞耻之事以及隐瞒怀孕情况，可能会造成伤害。这项描述性研究旨在确定土耳其已婚女性在孕期、分娩期和产后的潜在有害做法。
研究样本包括121名女性。通过问卷调查在面对面访谈中收集信息。
80%的受访者识字/为小学毕业生，45%在家中分娩。女性中最具潜在危害的做法是襁褓包裹（81%）、给婴儿使用装满沙子的尿布（“holluk”）（35%）以及用盐水给婴儿洗澡（40%）。观察到传统产后做法与女性的人口统计学特征（如年龄、教育程度、结婚年龄和出生地）之间存在关联（p<0.05）。
土耳其女性在孕期及产后仍会进行某些传统做法，其中一些会对她们自身或其婴儿产生不利影响。了解这些潜在有害的习俗和文化观念很重要，以便能够实施健康教育项目，劝阻女性不要采取这些做法。
