Life experience to pregnancy in graduate students

Abstract

This qualitative research aimed to reflect experiences of pregnancy in graduate students. Data were collected by means of in-depth interview and observation. The samples were the graduate students who experienced pregnancy while attending college in Khon Kaen Province through guided question interviews (n = 5) from May to June 2008. All interviews were transcribed verbatim by coding data using the constant comparative method as proposed by descriptive phenomenology. Relatives’ experiences were categorized into three themes: 1) to find causes of getting pregnant while attending college 2) to define problems that the students experienced during pregnancy, and 3) to evaluate the students’ need for helps.

            The results from this paper is practically used to prevent the graduate students’ pregnancy, to be a model for helping the pregnant students, and to improve the college’s educational system that possibly reduce educational and social problems.