Granot M, Spitzer A, Aroian K J, Ravid C, Tamir B, Noam R
Cheryl Spencer School of Nursing, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.
West J Nurs Res. 1996 Jun;18(3):299-313. doi: 10.1177/019394599601800306.
This exploratory, qualitative study compared traditional and biomedical pregnancy and delivery practices from the perspective of Ethiopian immigrant women in Israel. Findings documented that certain beliefs, such as the belief that nonmedical factors (i.e., moral behavior, God, and proper nutrition) were responsible for pregnancy outcomes, were relatively unaffected by immigration. After immigration to Israel, Ethiopian women, however, chose to deliver their babies in the hospital rather than import traditional home delivery practices from their homeland. Despite many negative aspects of labor and delivery in Israel, Ethiopian immigrant women felt that it was worth enduring negative Israeli health care practices in order to have "clean," "safe," and expert deliveries. Findings from this study assist health care professionals to provide more culturally sensitive care to this immigrant group.
这项探索性的定性研究从以色列埃塞俄比亚移民妇女的角度比较了传统和生物医学的怀孕及分娩做法。研究结果表明，某些观念，比如认为非医学因素（即道德行为、上帝和适当营养）决定怀孕结果的观念，相对而言并未因移民而受到影响。然而，移民到以色列后，埃塞俄比亚妇女选择在医院分娩，而非沿用她们祖国传统的家庭分娩做法。尽管在以色列分娩存在诸多不利因素，但埃塞俄比亚移民妇女觉得，为了能有“干净”“安全”且由专业人员接生的分娩过程，忍受以色列医疗保健方面的不良做法是值得的。这项研究的结果有助于医疗保健专业人员为这一移民群体提供更具文化敏感性的护理。
