Effect of health literacy program on the prevention of unintended pregnancy among female high school students in Nakhon Sawan Province
Keywords:
Unwanted pregnancy, Female students, Health literacy program, AdolescentsAbstract
Promoting health literacy enhances fundamental skills that lead to positive health behaviors. This quasi-experimental study aimed to examine the effect of a health literacy program on promoting behaviors that prevent unintended pregnancy. A quasi-experimental study was conducted, in which a total of 90 female high school students were selected through simple random sampling and divided into two groups: an experimental group and a comparison group, with 45 participants in each. The results were measured at two time points: before and after the intervention. The 11-week intervention included educational
lectures, internet-based information searches, interactive quiz games via a website, educational videos on unintended pregnancy prevention, and role-playing activities. Data were collected through an online questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics, including frequency, percentage, minimum, maximum, mean, and standard deviation. Repeated measures ANCOVA was employed to assess
differences between groups.
The results revealed that after the intervention, the experimental group had significantly higher mean scores in unintended pregnancy prevention behaviors than the comparison group (Mean diff. = 5.88; p-value < 0.001; 95% CI: 3.28-8.60). This finding suggests that female secondary school students demonstrated a tendency toward improved health literacy.
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