Factors influencing maternal health literacy of adolescent pregnant
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Background: Pregnant Adolescents are a group that is prone to both physical and psychosocial complications. If this group of pregnant women know about maternal health, they will be able to access and understand health information. This leads to healthy behaviors and good pregnancy outcomes.
Objectives: To investigate the factors influencing maternal health literacy of adolescent pregnant women.
Methods: Cross-sectional predictive research. The sample of 98 adolescent pregnant women between 10 and 19 years of age were recruited using to the inclusion criteria method. The research tools, including personal information questionnaires. Social support questionnaire Maternal health knowledge questionnaire, and multiple linear regression analysis statistics.
Results: Education level, family income, social support, number of antenatal care visits. and the number of times receiving group health advice during pregnancy were able to explain 51 percent of the variation in maternal health knowledge (R2=.510, F=19.120, p<.001). Factors that can predict maternal health knowledge included family income, social support, number of antennal care visits and the number of times receiving group health advice during pregnancy
Conclusions: Promoting maternal health knowledge depends on receiving important personal health information, having sufficient time in obtaining health information, and receiving good social support. All of these helped adolescent pregnant women increase their health literacy, be able to take care of their own health and that of their children.
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บทความที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์เป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของวิทยาลัยพยาบาลบรมราชชนนี จังหวัดนนทบุรี
ข้อความที่ปรากฏในบทความแต่ละเรื่องในวารสารวิชาการเล่มนี้เป็นความคิดเห็นส่วนตัวของผู้เขียนแต่ละท่านไม่เกี่ยวข้องกับวิทยาลัยพยาบาลบรมราชชนนี จังหวัดนนทบุรี และคณาจารย์ท่านอื่น ในวิทยาลัยฯ แต่อย่างใด ความรับผิดชอบองค์ประกอบทั้งหมดของบทความแต่ละเรื่องเป็นของผู้เขียนแต่ละท่าน หากมีความผิดพลาดใด ๆ ผู้เขียนแต่ละท่านจะรับผิดชอบบทความของตนเองแต่ผู้เดียว
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