Chinese Immigrants’ use of Human Services During the Transition to Parenthood

• Author / Creator

  Svechnikova, Ksenia

• The purpose of this study was to explore Chinese immigrants’ experiences with
  human services during the transition to parenthood. The data were generated
  through three rounds of individual interviews with six Chinese immigrant couples.
  Latent content analysis was used to identify primary patterns in the types and
  prevalence of services used by participants, their reasons for using human services,
  and the quality of their experiences with the services. The findings indicate that
  participants commonly used (a wide range of) health care services, while social
  services were not commonly used. When participants sought help from human
  services, it was mostly for their infants’ health-related issues. Overall, participants’
  experiences with human services were positive. Services seemed to meet
  participants’ needs, providers were perceived as pleasant to interact with and most were easy to access. Finally, a language barrier to services was not a common experience for participants.

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Transition to parenthood
  • Human services
  • Qualitative research
  • Fathers
  • Service utilization
  • Immigrants
  • Pregnancy
  • Health care
  • Experiences
  • Canada
  • Parents
  • Infants
  • Chinese
  • Mothers

• Graduation date

  Spring 2012

• Type of Item

  Thesis

• Degree

  Master of Science

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3W41P

• License

  This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.