Health conditions, socio-demographic and familial characteristics and multiple roles: The case of Filipino seafarer's wives

• Main Author: Mendoza, Rhodora C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2015
• Subjects: Sailors > Philippines; Wives > Philippines; Medical care; Sociology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/461
• Institution: De La Salle University

The study examined health conditions and their associations with socio-demographic and familial and husbands employment characteristics, and multiple roles among wives of Filipino seafarers. There is a dearth on local knowledge on these phenomena. Utilizing a self-administered survey questionnaire, 200 seafarers wives were, sexual and physical health). Women's socio-demographic and familial characteristics as well as productive, reproductive and their community-managing roles were examined for their relationships with women's health conditions, using correlation and multinomial logistic regression. Results revealed that the seafarers wives were found to have a moderate to good level of overall health conditions. Variables such as age, educational attainment and wives monthly income were not statistically associated with overall health and sub-health domains. However, duration of women's husbands on-board assignment, frequency of communication and remittance were found to be statistically significantly related with women's overall and sexual health. Furthermore, religiosity and employment were associated with physical and social health, respectively. Findings have implications for studies and interventions on women left behind by their seafaring husbands.