The Factors Predicting Intention to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy among Female Junior High School Students
Keywords:
Teenage Pregnancy, Predicting Factors, Intention, Female Junior High School StudentsAbstract
The objective of this descriptive research was to determine the predicting factors of intention to avoid teenage pregnancy. The sample was 400 female students in a secondary school level in Phetchaburi province who were recruited by using simple random sampling. The data were collected by using questionnaires of intention to avoid teenage pregnancy, sexual risk behaviors, frequency, and comfortableness of adolescent-parent sexual communication, as well as attitude towards early sexual intercourse, sexual health information access and literacy, knowledge of teenage pregnancy prevention, and intention of preventing teenage pregnancy. The reliability was tested, yielding values of .88, .75, .86, .88, .87 and .75 respectively. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regressions. The main results were as follows.
1. The mean score for the intention to prevent teenage pregnancy was at a good level (M = 3.55, SD = .99).
2. There was a statistically significant positive correlation between the attitude towards early sexual intercourse, comfortableness of the communication about sex, sexual health information accessing and literacy, prevention of teenage pregnancy knowledge, frequency of the communication about sex, and the intention of preventing teenage pregnancy at p-value<.05 (r=.426, .267, .197, .190, .163 respectively). In addition, there was a negative correlation between sexual risk behavior and the intention of preventing teenage pregnancy (r=-.155, p<.05).
3. All four predicting factors could explain 26.50% of the variance in the intention of preventing teenage pregnancy, including the attitude towards early sexual intercourse, comfortableness of the communication about sex, sexual health information access and literacy, and sexual risk behavior (Beta= 375, .194, .158, -.144, p<.05).
These research findings could be used for developing teenage pregnancy preventive program covering these predictive variables, especially an involvement of school, family and community.
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