Factors Predicting Maternal-Fetal Attachment in Pregnant Adolescents

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Factors Predicting Maternal-Fetal Attachment in Pregnant Adolescents


Porntip Chobtrong*, Siriwan Sangin** and Wannee Deoisres***


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Purpose: The study aimed to study maternal-fetal attachment and to examine factors predicting maternal-fetal attachment in pregnant adolescents.


Design: Predictive correlational research.


Methods: Samples were 170 pregnant adolescents attending antenatal clinics at Chonburi hospital and Banglamung hospital. Research instruments consisted of demographic questionnaire, the prenatal attachment scale for Thai pregnant adolescents, marital relationship questionnaire, the experience of intimate partner violence questionnaire and social support questionnaire. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and enter multiple regression analysis.


Results: Results showed that the mean score of maternal-fetal attachment in pregnant adolescents were at a good level. Factors that could predict maternal-fetal attachment in pregnant adolescents with statistical significance, namely the marital relationship (β = .163), planning of pregnancy (β = .191), experience of intimate partner violence (β = .310), gestational age (β = .204) and social support (β = .321). All factors could explain 37.9% of the variance of maternal-fetal attachment in pregnant adolescents. (F(5, 164) = 20.046, p < .001)


Conclusion: Nurses should be used as a guideline to develop nursing model. To promoting the maternal-fetal attachment in pregnant adolescents for better.


Keywords: Maternal-fetal attachment/ pregnant adolescents/ predicting factors


* Student in Master of Nursing Science Program in Midwifery, Faculty of Nursing, Burapha University.


** Corresponding author, Associate Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Burapha University. Research Advisor. E-mail: siriwan_y2001@yahoo.com


*** Associate Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Burapha University.


 


 


 


 

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