Effect of Using Primary Nursing Model Toward Self-Care Behaviors of Pregnancy Women in Private Hospital

Abstract

This research was a quasi – experiment one group pretest-posttest design. The purpose of this research was to compare the self-care behaviors of pregnant women as perceived by Primary nurses before and after using the primary nursing care model. The sample included 30 Pregnancy women and 8 professional nurses working in women health center of Samitivej Thonburi wich was selected by purposive sampling methods. The research tool in the experiment was a handbook of developing model primary nursing care and self-care behavior of pregnant women. Both instruments were tested for content validity of the questionnaire by a group of 3 experts with CVI .98 and reliability coefficient alpha was .79. The data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and t-test.

The results revealed that self-care behavior of pregnancy women after using the primary nursing care model in the high level 4.77 before using the primary nursing care with statistical significance .05. The findings concluded that the primary nursing care model was very useful for pregnant women.