ปัจจัยที่มีความสัมพันธ์กับพฤติกรรมการส่งเสริมสุขภาพของหญิงตั้งครรภ์วัยรุ่น แผนกฝากครรภ์ กรุงเทพมหานคร

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The purposes of this study were to examine the relationship between social support, perceived self-efficacy, personal factors and health promoting behaviors in pregnant adolescents. The purposive samples consisted of 218 pregnant adolescents aged between 13-19 years old. They came to the antenatal clinics in Klang Hospital and Somdejprapinklao Hospital. The research tools were questionnaires. The data were collected and analyzed by frequency, percentage, means, standard deviation, Chi-Square test, Pearson product moment correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression. Results demonstrated that there was a significant correlation between the pregnant adolescents’ personal factors on family income and their health promoting behaviors in health responsibility aspect (p < 0.05). There were significant correlations between planning to have children and health promoting behaviors in pregnant adolescents in nutrition, health responsibility, stress management, and spiritual development aspects (p < 0.01). There were positive correlations social support, perceived self-efficacy and health promoting behaviors in pregnant adolescents (p < 0.01). The perceived self-efficacy and emotional social support variables could significantly predict the variance of health promoting behaviors in pregnant adolescents (p < 0.001). This study suggests that nurses should set up the activities in order to give health education for pregnant adolescents in the antenatal clinic to increase self-efficacy for health promoting behavior. Such patterns of activities should promote the families to participate on a continuous basis.

Key words: Social support, prceived self-efficacy, health promoting behaviors, pregnant adolescents