Stress and Health Promotion Behaviors of Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Care in the Tambon Health Promotion Hospital in the Municipality Udon Thani Province
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This correlational research aimed to study stress levels, health promotion behaviors levels, and the relationship between stress and health promotion behaviors of pregnant women. Who attended antenatal care at Tambon Health Promotion Hospital, in the district of Mueang Udon Thani. The sample consisted of 167 pregnant women. Data were collected by the sample answer self-administered questionnaires. The research tools used including a stress assessment form, and a health promotion behavior assessment form, which passed the content validity check from experts and obtained a reliability value of .95 and .98, respectively. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, and correlation analysis using Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient.
The results showed that most of the subjects had stress moderate levels of 50.3%, followed by high levels of 33.5%, and severe levels of 6.0%. Overall health promotion behaviors were moderate levels of 47.9%, followed by good levels of 39.5%, and not good levels of 12.6%. The stress was a negatively statistically significant relationship with overall health promotion behavior (r-374, p< .001), and a negatively statistically significant relationship with each aspect, including responsibility for health (r-.306, p<.001), physical activity (r-.212, p<.01), interpersonal relationships (r- .302, p<.001), spiritual development (r-.368, p<.001) and stress management (r-.302, p<.001).
The studies show that when pregnant women experience increased stress, positive health promotion behaviors will decrease. Therefore, pregnant women should be screened for stress and health promotion behaviors. As well as emphasizing care to reduce stress triggers during pregnancy
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