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Caregiver Awareness of Reproductive Health Issues for Women with Intellectual Disabilities by Lan-Ping Lin; Pei-Ying Lin; Shang-Wei Hsu; Ching-Hui Loh; Jin-Ding Lin; Chia-Im Lai; Wu-Chien Chien; Fu-Gong Lin is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background Limited attention has been paid to the issue of reproductive health as it affects women with intellectual disabilities, despite reproductive health being a vital issue in public health policy for women in the general population. This paper describes caregiver awareness of reproductive health issues relative to women with intellectual disabilities who are being cared for in welfare institutions in Taiwan. ## Methods The study employed a cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study which recruited 1,152 caregivers (response rate = 71.87%) from 32 registered disability welfare institutions in Taiwan. We classified their understanding/awareness of reproductive health issues into four domains: menstrual (1) and menopause (2) issues, sex education (3), and reproductive health services (4). Each domain had five associated yes/no questions and the total score for the four domains was out of a maximum of 20. Data were analyzed using SPSS 15.0 software. ## Results We found that most of the caregivers were familiar with matters concerning sex education, menopause, and reproductive health services, but they lacked adequate understanding of issues associated with menstruation in wom
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- Author
- Lan-Ping Lin; Pei-Ying Lin; Shang-Wei Hsu; Ching-Hui Loh; Jin-Ding Lin; Chia-Im Lai; Wu-Chien Chien; Fu-Gong Lin
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2001-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1471-2458)
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)