Health Belief Model with Health Promotion Behavior among Primigravida Adolescents

Abstract

Purpose: To study the health belief model and the relationship between health belief model with health promotion behavior primigravida adolescents

Design: Mixed methods research

Methods: Quantitative sample consisted of 124 adolescent women with first pregnancy by purposive sampling. Qualitative data were collected from 12 first pregnancy adolescent women who completed the questionnaire by using in-depth interview, snowball sampled, and selecting specific focus group conversations of 10 people. The research tools included questionnaire which had Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of the instruments revealed acceptable reliability scores of 0.70-0.90. Percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson correlation and content analysis were used for analyzing the quantitative and qualitative data, respectively.

Results: 1) The quantitative results showed that the perceived of risk susceptibility, severity, benefits, and self-efficacy were positively correlated with health promotion behavior, with a statistical significance of 0.01. 2) The qualitative study found that perception of risk susceptibility and severity from inappropriate health behavior, the perception of benefits from correct consumption behavior, the perception of self-care, follow-up, self-efficacy from self-esteem and solving health problems.  

Conclusion: The perception of self-beliefs had positively correlated with health promotion behavior suggesting that medical personnel should develop program to self-care among primigravida pregnant adolescents.