The Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau said yesterday that 90 percent of the city’s Filipino domestic helpers said that they feel stressed, saying that the main source of their pressure comes from work.
Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau staff members announced three surveys’ findings – about Filipino domestic helpers’ mental health, local university students’ sex education level, and Greater Bay Area (GBA) nurses and caretakers’ caring level – during a press conference at the tertiary education institution in Estrada do Repouso yesterday.
According to a statement provided during the press conference, over 60 percent of Filipino domestic helpers lack access to health information, especially the younger generation with inadequate levels of English. The statement pointed out that 60-90 percent of domestic helpers say they have been looking for information about emotional stress, sleeping difficulty and chronic pain.
Students lack knowledge of STDs
Meanwhile, in the survey about local university students’ level of sex education, the findings show that the respondents do not have an in-depth understanding of sexuality. The statement said that concerning the survey’s question whether sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) only affect sex organs, 60 percent of the respondents answered it incorrectly, as sexually transmitted diseases do not only affect sex organs.
Moreover, the findings show that 60 percent of the respondents have been in a relationship before, stressing that, on average, they started dating at the age of 15.6. However, the statement added, a minority of the students are unaware of safe sex practices, and some have sexual relations at an early age or have multiple sexual relationships at the same time. The staff members of the college urged the government to set up sex education classes as a separate course.
‘Sufficient level’ of caring by nurses in GBA
In addition, the statement said, the survey about the caring level of nurses and caretakers in the GBA received 8,030 responses that were deemed valid. According to the statement, the result showed that all the respondents nurses and caretakers showed a “sufficient level” of caring. The statement underlined that the point of the survey was to highlight the caring level of nurses and caretakers in the GBA in order to facilitate communication among them in the region’s 11 cities.
Three staff members of the Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau address yesterday’s press conference at the auditorium of the tertiary education institution about its survey findings about Filipino domestic helpers’ mental health, local universities’ students sex education level, and Greater Bay Area (GBA) nurses and caretakers’ caring level. Photo courtesy of TDM
