英文摘要 |
The purpose of this study was to investigate: (1) the establishment of breastfeeding rooms in workplaces; and (2) the establishment of breastfeeding rooms in different counties in Taiwan. Methods: A nation-wide survey, targeted at 8208 workplaces in Taiwan area, was conducted in 2009. Final data were collected from a total of 7946 workplaces, with a response rate of 96.8%. Results: (1) The establishing rate of breastfeeding rooms in workplaces was 32%. (2) Among these workplaces, the public health center had highest establishing rate (81%), followed by hospitals (61%). Private companies had lowest establishing rate of 7%. (3) Among counties, the highest establishing rate was in Yi-lan county(54.7%), followed by Taipei city (53.9%). Tao-yuan and Nan-tou counties had lowest eatablishing rate of 15.1%. (4) Counties had more than 300 workplaces without breastfeeding rooms were Tao-yuan county (750 workplaces), Taipei county (690 workplaces), Tai-chung county (375 workplaces), Chang-hua county and Tai-nan county (371 workplaces, respectively). Conclusions: (1) The establishing rate of breastfeeding rooms in Taiwan was low; (2) the disparty of establishing rate for breastfeeding room in workplaces was large, particularly, very low in private companies; (3) the numbers and establishing rates in different counties varied; (4) there was a need to further investigate the reasons for the differences listed above and to propose a project for the issue, so that the establishment of breastfeeding room in workplaces can be increased. |