Prenatal Care Behaviors Status among Pregnant Women Using by BASNEF Model

S. Mohammad Mahdi Hazavehei; Tahere Etesamifard; Babak Moeini; Ghodratollah Roshanaei

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Prenatal Care Behaviors Status among Pregnant Women Using by BASNEF Model

Author(s):

S. Mohammad Mahdi Hazavehei¹,

Tahere Etesamifard^2,*,

Babak Moeini³,

Ghodratollah Roshanaei⁴

1Department of Health Education, Health Science Research Center , Faculty of Health, Hamedan University of Medical Sciences , Hamedan, Iran

2Department of Health Education, Health Science Research Center , Faculty of Health, Hamedan Univ ersity of Medical Sciences, Hamedan, Hamedan, Iran

3Department of Health Education, Health Science Research Center , Faculty of Health, Hamedan University of Medical Sciences, Hamedan, Iran

4Department of Biostatistics, Health Science Research Center, Faculty of Health, Hamedan University of Medical Sciences, Hamedan, Iran

Zahedan Journal of Research in Medical Sciences:Vol. 16, issue 10(suppl)

Published online:Jul 29, 2013

Article type:Brief Report

Received:Nov 15, 2012

Accepted:Dec 26, 2012

How to Cite:S. Mohammad Mahdi HazaveheiTahere Etesamifard Babak Moeini Ghodratollah RoshanaeiPrenatal Care Behaviors Status among Pregnant Women Using by BASNEF Model.Zahedan J Res Med Sci.16(10(suppl)):null-null.

Abstract

Background: The aim of the study was to determine the prenatal care behaviors status among pregnant women using by BASNEF model.

Materials and Methods: This Descriptive-Analytical study was carried out on 360 pregnant women in their 28th-42th week of pregnancy, attending health care centers for the study using random sampling selection method. Data-gathering tools consisted of a 2-part questionnaire: demographic variables and one scales for measuring prenatal care based on the BASNEF constructs. Inferential and descriptive statistics via SPSS-16 software was used for data analysis.

Results: The subjects reported 92.5, 94.3, 62.7, 73.4 and 90.2% of receivable scores of attitude, subjective norms, behavioral intention, enabling factors and prenatal care behaviors scores, respectively. In liner regression, factors influencing prenatal care behaviors were subjective norms, intention and enabling factors (p< 0.05).

Conclusions: Regarding the results, status of prenatal care behaviors are related meaningfully indicating that pregnant women should be considered as vulnerable group.

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