Effects of the empowerment program with Line application on health behaviors and recurrent preterm labor among women having preterm labor
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Recurrent preterm labor, empowerment program, Line applicationAbstract
Empowerment helps people gain confidence and make decisions to change their behaviors. This study is quasi-experimental research. The study aimed to determine the effects of the empowerment program with the Line application on health behaviors and recurrent preterm labor among women having preterm labor. The sample was pregnant women with hospital discharge plans after being treated for preventing preterm labor in the hospital for the first time. Fifty samples were recruited by purposive sampling and equally divided into 2 groups; the control group, and the experimental group. Research instrument included a personal information questionnaire, a record of the history of current pregnancy and rate of repeated preterm labor, and the health behaviors assessment. Data were analyzed by using independent t-test and chi-square test
Results revealed that after receiving an empowerment program, the mean score of health behavior of experimental group was statistically significantly higher than that of the control group (t35.92 = 14.40, p < .001) and the rate of repeated preterm labor was lower than the control group, but there was no statistically significant difference (X2 =2.92, p=.09). Recommendations from this study, nurses and midwives should empower women with preterm labor to have health behaviors in preventing recurrence of preterm labor and reducing the rate of preterm labor repeatable.
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