Filipino Culture, Values and Practices Relation to Maternal and Child Care

Question 1

Modalities of care

Answer 1

Culture care preservation
Culture care accommodation
Culture Care restructuring

Question 2

The nurse supports the patient’s retention, preservation and maintenance of beneficial cultural beliefs and practices.

Answer 2

Culture care preservation

Question 3

The nurse to support the negotiation or adoption of cultural practices that are safe and effective for the patients’ health, wellbeing, illness or dying.

Answer 3

Culture care accommodation

Question 4

The nurse enables the patient to be aware of his options in order to change, modify or restructure their life for better health practices and outcomes

Answer 4

Culture Care restructuring

Question 5

Critical competencies in transcultural nursing

list them

Answer 5

1. Listening
2. Observing
3. Taking cues from presented behaviors

Question 6

The practice of transcultural care enables the nurse to
have a ________ _________ or unlock the unique
opportunity to provide culturally ____________ care

Answer 6

1. special
2. privilege
   3.congruent

Question 7

The Badjaos also called the

Answer 7

“sea gypsies”

Question 8

group of seafaring nomadic people that live on houseboats

Answer 8

Badjaos

Question 9

Badjaos live on houseboats, what are they called

Answer 9

“lepa-lepa”

Question 10

Where are Badjaos usually found

Answer 10

Tawi-tawi, Sulu, Basilan and in Zamboanga but now, they can be found can be found even on the streets of Manila, in Quezon province and all over the Philippines

Question 11

The marrying age among the Badjaos is

Answer 11

13-18

Question 12

Bajdjaos practices pertaining to the behavior of the pregnant woman

Answer 12

● Assumes to be pregnant with the absences of menstrual period within the full moon of three consecutive months.
● Consults a panday once she believes she is pregnant. This can be dangerous because according to Aziato and Omenyo (2018) TBAs have had very little training and education that integrates them into the larger health care system and even those with training need the support of skilled backup services.
● Avoids sitting in the doorway since the position will lead to a difficult delivery
● Avoiding to have a haircut during pregnancy since this will lead to a cesarean delivery

Question 13

Badjaos behavior of husband

Answer 13

● Avoid visiting the dead. It will predispose the baby to
experience bad circumstances
● Restriction of sexual activity with wife to prevent baby
from having deformities

Question 14

Badjaos behavior of the panday

Answer 14

● Thoroughly massage the abdomen to determine the position of the baby.

Question 15

Badjaos food beliefs for pregnant women

Answer 15

● Prohibiting the intake of bloody fish or those fish
catched through dynamite fishing to prevent
excessive bleeding of the mother
● Prohibiting pregnant women to eat twin bananas

Question 16

Badjaos beliefs and practices during the birthing process

Answer 16

● Cover the floor with mat and plastic to prevent blood stain in the floor during delivery
● The malong should cover the during delivery to cover the private parts. Even the panday should refrain from observing the private parts.
● Rope tied in the ceiling will be pulled by the woman during delivery for strength
● Delivery position is high fowler’s position with thighs apart and knees are flexed.
● Only female family members can stay in the delivery room for support
● Stop all carpentry works during delivery
● Delivery at night time family members must offer
prayers.

Question 17

Badjaos rituals after childbirth

Answer 17

● The placenta will be placed in a coconut shell and brought directly to the seashore. The bearer must not look back or the child will be backward in his/her lifetime. It will be buried very deep so no animals can dig it up.
● Placenta is buried near the seashore so the child will be a good swimmer
● The child is given ampalaya juice so he/she can vomit ingested materials. According to IMCI protocols, only breast milk must be fed to infants from 0 to 6 months old.

Question 18

● One of the indigenous groups “people of the sea current.”
● They are originally from the Sulu Archipelago

Answer 18

The Tausug

Question 19

The marrying age among the Tausug is

Answer 19

15-16

Question 20

Kidnap for marriage is also a common practice among the members of the tribe

what is it called

Answer 20

“Guyod”

Question 21

During an eclipse, the pregnant woman is made to take a bath while standing or sitting on a big mortar called “________” to prevent the baby from developing ugly birthmarks

(for the Tausug)

Answer 21

Lusong

Question 22

The pregnant woman should not look down or comment about other people’s discrepancies (“_______”) to prevent her baby from having deformities

(for the Tausug)

Answer 22

“kudyo”

Question 23

__________ is worn during delivery to cover the woman’s
vagina and the legs. No one is allowed to look at the woman’s private parts. The traditional midwife or panday only inspects to check if the baby’s head is already out

(for the Tausug)

Answer 23

Malong

Question 24

Newborns can breastfeed from their mother only after ____ days. At birth the baby will feed from another lactating mother

(for the Tausug)

Answer 24

2

Question 25

The babies that were able to breastfeed from the same woman cannot marry each other. They become “________ ______”. Marrying each other will lead to bad luck

(for the Tausug)

Answer 25

“Nagsau duro”

Question 26

Upon birth, the baby is made to wear a “_______” a white cloth to cover the umbilical stump. This will be worn until the umbilical cord dries and fall off

(for the Tausug)

Answer 26

“Paha”

Question 27

Weaning is done by placing the “___________” on the nipples of the mother. It is a vine, its bitter juice is extracted and applied to the nipples

(for the Tausug)

Answer 27

“Patiwali”

Question 28

a ritual where the “lahut” ( the small knife used to cut the umbilical cord) touches the labia of a female child

(for the Tausug)

Answer 28

Sunnat

Question 29

thread is left on the pierced hole so it will not close. These rituals are important symbols that the girl is expected to play the role of the female in the community and to bless her with good health and fertility during reproductive years

(for the Tausug)

Answer 29

Pagtiyok or piercing the ear lobule

Question 30

What age does a child of the Tausug undero “sunnat” and “pagtiyok”

Answer 30

before 5 years old

Question 31

● There are 90,000 members of this minority group that is scattered all over the Phlippines.
● They are most numerous in Luzon especially in the provinces of Zambales, Bataan and Pampanga

Answer 31

Aetas or Mamanwa

Question 32

marrying age of the Aetas

Answer 32

13-16

Question 33

The mother is given hot ________ and hot drinks after delivery. Sour food which will cause binat is restricted until her blood discharges stopped or within one month from giving birth

(for the Aetas)

Answer 33

lugaw

Question 34

The mother is prohibited to take a bath for __ to __ days to prevent _______, which is characterized by flu like symptoms

(for the Aetas)

Answer 34

1. 5 to 7
2. binat

Question 35

The mother is prohibited from working for __ months

(for the Aetas)

Answer 35

2

Question 36

● They are group of people that found in the province of llocos.

Answer 36

ILOCANO

Question 37

Prenatal myths of the Ilocano

Answer 37

● The mother must drink lots of water to make the baby’s complexion light
● Sitting with legs crossed with flatten the head of the baby
● The mother who likes music, singing and dancing during pregnancy will have a baby girl.
● A pregnant woman should not attend funeral or wake because it can cause her baby to die in her womb
● A woman should avoid eating twin bananas to prevent giving birth to twins
● A woman should avoid deaf and mute or else her baby will have same characteristics
● Eating round vegetables and fruits will lead to having a girl while eating carrots, cucumbers and long fruits or vegetables will lead to having a boy

Question 38

Ilocano beliefs during labor and delivery

Answer 38

● The woman must be attended by her female family members
● She has to rub her abdomen in a wooden post to facilitate delivery of the baby
● House guests are prohibited to stand at the door or stairs to prevent labor complications
● Walk around the birthing room during labor to facilitate the descent of the head of the fetus.
● They will only bear down when the doctors instructs them to do so
● Let the people whom she quarreled touch her abdomen during labor to facilitate delivery
● Pray to almighty god for guidance

Question 39

Ilocano postpartum care

Answer 39

● The woman must rest after delivery and responsibilities at home will be taken cared by her family and relatives.
● She must not be exposed to cold and wind 30 to 40 days after delivery to heal faster.
● She must not be exposed to rain and s not allowed to take any cold drinks
● The woman must take hot soup and nutritious food to increased milk production.
● The placenta must be buried immediately by her husband so she will not experience post-partum bleeding and body pains.