THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A FAMILY PARTICIPATION AND LEARNING ROLE MODEL PROGRAM ON THE USE OF CONTRACEPTIVE IMPLANTS IN TEENAGE MOTHERS
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Abstract
Abstract
Background: Recurrent pregnancy in teenage mothers is a significant issue that has physical, mental, economic, and social consequences. It affects mothers, causing various complications during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum. It can lead to preterm birth and low birth weight. It is most often caused by ineffective contraception.
Objectives: 1) Comparison of the mean knowledge scores on contraceptive implant of postpartum teenage mothers before and after entering the family participation with learning role model program, and between the experimental and the control group. 2) Comparison of intentions to use contraceptive implant and the use of contraceptive implant of postpartum teenage mothers between the experimental and control groups.
Materials and Methods: This quasi-experimental study with two groups and pretest-posttest design. The study sample consisted of 82 teenage mothers after delivery aged 15-19year who deliveried at Chaophraya Abhaiphubejhr Hospital. The participants were selected purposively according to the specified criteria and randomly assigned to two groups: the experimental group (n=41) and the control group (n=41). The study was conducted from April to August 2023. The instruments used in this study were, family participation and learning role model program, a personal information questionnaire, a contraceptive implant knowledge questionnaire (with a reliability of .80), and a record of intention and use of contraceptive implants. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-tests, paired t-tests, and chi-square tests.
Results: The mean scores on contraceptive implant knowledge of teenage mothers in the experimental group after entering the program were significantly higher than those before the program (p=.001) and higher than those of the control group (p=.001 ). The experimental group had significantly more intention to use than the control group (p<.05) and use contraceptive implants more than the control group (p<.05).
Conclusions: The family participation and learning role model program was effective in helping teenage mothers decide to use contraceptive implants before discharge. Therefore, this program should be implemented to promote the use of contraceptive implants in teenage mothers to prevent repeat pregnancies.