Effect of prenatal counselling on compliance and outcomes of teenage pregnancy

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To evaluate the effect of prenatal counselling on compliance for health promotion and pregnancy outcomes we conducted an experimental randomized control study on a sample of 86 teenage pregnant women attending the maternal and child health centre in Elkhosos village, Egypt. Data were collected pre-counselling, post-counselling and after delivery. At the post test, women in the study [counseling] group showed statistically significantly greater knowledge and compliance of health promotion [P < 0.001] than women in the control group. In the study group, 90.7% were full term at labour compared with 41.9% in the control group; 88.4% of the women in the study group had normal vaginal delivery compared with 76.7% of those in the control group. The health condition in 90.7% of the study group neonates was classified as good compared with only 46.5% in the control group. Only 9.3% of the study group babies had low birth weight compared with 32.6% of the control group babies [P = 0.008]Citation
Mersal, F.A., Esmat, O.M. & Khalil, G.M. (2013). Effect of prenatal counselling on compliance and outcomes of teenage pregnancy. http://www.who.int/iris/handle/10665/118350
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EMHJ - Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 19 (1), 10-17, 2013
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1020-3397Other Identifiers
http://applications.emro.who.int/emhj/v19/01/EMHJ_2013_19_1_0010_0017.pdfCollections
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