Relationship between E-Health Information Literacy and Prevention Unintended Pregnancies Behaviors Among Female Adolescents
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Purpose:
- 1. To examine the e-health information literacy and preventive behaviors concerning unintended pregnancies among adolescent females.
- 2. To explore the correlation between e-health information literacy and preventive behaviors regarding unintended pregnancies among adolescent females.
Design: Cross-sectional Descriptive Study
Methods: The participants comprised 311 female high school students. In Mueang District, a province located in Southern Thailand, during the first semester of the academic year 2022, a total of 311 participants who owned smartphones and expressed willingness to participate in the project were enrolled, achieving a participation rate of 91.47%. Initially, four out of six schools were randomly chosen, followed by stratified sampling to ensure representation across grades. Data collection, conducted online, involved administering e-health literacy questionnaires. Analysis included descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient) with a significance level of α = 0.05.
Results: The study Findings revealed that the mean age of the sample group was 16.68 years (SD = 0.98), e-health literacy (M = 2.21, SD = 1.35) and e-health literacy regarding the content aspect were relatively low (M = 1.83, SD = 1.14), whereas the level of awareness was moderate (M = 3.06, SD = 1.38). Additionally, preventive behaviors against unintended teenage pregnancies were reported to be low (M = 1.93, SD = 1.30). Furthermore, there were statistically significant moderate positive correlation between e-health literacy, e-health literacy in content and the level of awareness with preventive behaviors against unintended teenage pregnancies among adolescents at a significance level of .01 (r =.68, p< .01, r =.36, p< .01, r = .68, p< .01 respectively)
Conclusion: Low e-health literacy is associated with an increased risk of engaging in behaviors that do not prevent unintended teenage pregnancies among adolescents.
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