예비부모교육에 대한 인식과 요구조사

In the rapidly changing society in terms of social culture, family form and upheaval of value system such as young people giving up marriage and childbirth, this study aimed to provide a basic material to be applied on the sites of education and training. For this, it explored the awareness and demand for pre-parents education programs differentiated by subject and needs to improve parental preparedness and parenting efficacy. This study covered 274 parents living in Guri and Namyangju, Gyeonggi-do and Seoul, and examined the awareness of pre-parents education and the demand for parent education programs. The results are as follows: First, the needs for pre-parents education were high(82.5%) and the regularness of pre-parents education programs(67.2%), and monthly training took up the highest portions. Highest numbers of respondents chose small-group lectures at public institutions and spouses (future spouses) as co-trainees. Second, unmarried respondents showed higher demand for the programs in terms of methods of spending pregnancy and childbirth stress resolution. They also displayed higher demands in terms of methods of delivering emotions to children, respectful attitudes to children and child-oriented child rearing methods while married respondents displayed higher demands for grandparents' involvement in child rearing. Based on the results, it is necessary to develop tailored pre-parents education programs differentiated by media, methods and subjects of education enabling convenient participation in consideration of variously changing family forms, awareness of education participants and differences among such programs.