Factors Related to Health Promoting Behaviors Among Adolescent Mothers
Keywords:
perceived benefits of action, perceived barriers to action, perceived self-efficacy, adolescent mothers, health promoting behavior, postpartumAbstract
Health promoting behavior during the postpartum period is important for adolescent mothers. Appropriate health behavior will result in the good health of adolescent mothers and their infants. The purpose of this descriptive correlation research study was to explore the relationship between perceived benefits of action, perceived barriers to action, perceived self-efficacy, and health promoting behavior within a sample range of young mothers. The participants were selected following the inclusion criteria and consisted of 85 adolescent mothers who were at 6-8 weeks postpartum, who had received service at the Gynecology Family Planning Clinic, and who had brought their babies for vaccination at the Well Baby Clinic at Hatyai Hospital and Songkhla Hospital from August to November 2015. The assessment tool measured four aspects including health promotion behavior, perceived benefits of action, perceived barriers to action, and perceived self-efficacy. These measures were modified from Pender’s Health Promotion Theory (2011) and literature review by Juadnapa Sangsawang, Bungorn Supavititpatana, and Punpilai Sriarporn. Descriptive statistics and Pearson’s product moment correlation statistics were used to analyze the data.
Results of the study revealed that:
- 1. Adolescent mothers had a high level of health promoting behavior with a total mean score of 139.58 (SD = 20.64).
2.The majority (70.59%) of adolescent mothers had a high level of perceived benefits of action with a total mean score of 148.84 (SD = 24.47).
3.The majority (51.76%) of adolescent mothers had a moderate level of perceived barriers to action with a total mean score of 89.82 (SD = 33.67).
4.The majority (62.35%) of adolescent mothers had a high level of perceived self-efficacy with a total mean score of 128.94 (SD = 19.05).
5.Perceived benefits of action and perceived self-efficacy had a high positive correlation with health promoting behavior (r = .746, r = .856, p < .01 respectively), but perceived barriers to action did not correlate with health promoting behavior.
The findings from this study can be used as baseline data to promote healthy behavior among adolescent mothers and for further research to create health promotion guidelines for adolescent mothers.
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