Nurses' roles in the development of health literacy among pregnant adolescents
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The study aimed to describe nurses’ roles in improving health literacy among pregnant adolescents. This presented two parts as consisting of: 1) health literacy among pregnant adolescents in the globalization era with rapid social model changes and 2) health literacy among pregnant adolescents covered the four dimensions. These nurses' roles for adolescent mothers and infants leads to a good physical and psychological health with appropriate preparation for maternal roles. Adolescent pregnancy occurs without sufficient physical, psychological, emotional, and social growth with physical and psychological effects on mothers and infants during pregnancy, at birth and during the postpartum periods. Nurses’ roles should include the development of health literacy among pregnant adolescents with coverage of the following six main components: (1) access skills, (2) cognitive skills, (3) communication skills, (4) decision skills, (5) self-management skills and (6) media literacy skills.
However, nurses who are responsible to care pregnancy adolescents should be focused on developing information service systems that easy to access and healthcare knowledge for adolescents that suitable adolescent period. Including, reliable of online media information. Which, online media information that provides knowledge to adolescents and build understanding, thereby enabling pregnant adolescents to make informed reproductive health decisions with accurate and appropriate care decisions for infants in the future.
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