Factors Related to the Risk of Unwanted Pregnancy in Freshmen Faculty of Science and Technology Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University
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Keywords:
risk, pregnancy, studentAbstract
This research is quantitative research. (quantitative research) using descriptive research with objectives to study factors related to pregnancy risk behaviors of first year students of the Faculty of Science and Technology Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University The instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire. The Data used in the research were collected from the samples, which were from first year students of the Faculty of Science and Technology. Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University. This group consisted of 269 students which were obtained from simple random sampling by lottery from the list of students. Data were collected by using questionnaires. The content validity was checked by 3 experts and reliability by using the Cronbach's alpha coefficient equal to .89. The data were analyzed by using frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation and one-way ANOVA analysis. The study found that the occupations of parents, student income per day, and family economic status were important risk factors. Other factors such as access to the internet, awareness of the dangers of sexual intercourse, and personal beliefs about sex correlated with pregnancy risk behaviors of the first-year students of the Faculty of Science and Technology Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University at the significance level of .05. It is first-year suggested that the restaurants surrounding educational institutions play an important role in enhancing the personal beliefs of students about sex as well as cultivating media awareness with critical access to the internet that causes premature sexual intercourse of students
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