Relationships between information, motivation, contraceptive behavioral skill and contraceptive use of vocational female students in the upper South of Thailand
Abstract:
The purposes of this correlational research were to examine the correlation between contraception information, attitude toward contraception, perceived negative consequences of pregnancy, contraception partner support and contraception self-efficacy and to identify predictive factors of contraception. Two hundred and fifty nine vocational female students in the upper south of Thailand were recruited using multistage random sampling. Data was collected using a self efficacy questionnaire, a contraception information questionnaire, an attitude toward contraception questionnaire, a perceived negative consequences of pregnancy questionnaire, a contraception self-efficacy questionnaire, contraception partner support and contraceptive use questionnaire. The questionnaires were tested for their content validity by a panel of experts. Their Cronbachs alpha coefficients were .67, .87, .86, .88, and .88, respectively. Data was analyzed using bivariate correlations and stepwise multiple regression. The results revealed that: 1. Contraception information, attitude toward contraception, perceived negative consequences of pregnancy, contraception self-efficacy and contraception partner support were positively and significantly related to contraceptive use among vocational female students (r = .38, .45 .39, .43 and .29, p < .05). 2. Contraception self-efficacy (β = .25), perceived negative consequences of pregnancy (β = .24), attitude toward contraception (β = .18) and contraception information (β = .15) were significant predictors of contraceptive use. Predictive variables accounted for 34.4% of total variance in contraception.