The relationship between self-care agency, self-care, and health in the pregnant adolescent
| dc.contributor.author | Stonebraker, Dorothy Hood | |
| dc.contributor.committeeChair | Britt, Robin | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Newman, Mickey | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Fehir, John | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-01T02:34:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-11-01T02:34:38Z | |
| dc.date.created | 1991-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A descriptive, correlational design was used to determine the relationship between basic conditioning factors, self-care agency, self-care, and health in pregnant adolescents, 14-19 years. Prenatal adolescent clinics at two research sites were used to select 100 volunteer adolescents by convenience nonprobability sampling. The mean age of the adolescents in this study was 17.48 years; half (50%) of the sample was black and 78 (78.8%) were single. Most of the adolescents attended school (60; 60.6%) and did not have jobs (86; 86%). The family income was low with 41 (46.7%) indicating a monthly income of less than $999. The minimal educational level was the 6th grade. Instruments included a Demographic Data Sheet and the Denyes Self-Care Agency, Self-Care Practice, and Health Status Instruments. No significant correlations were found between selected basic conditioning factors (e.g., age, birth order, siblings, marital status, and ethnicity) and self-care. A significant positive correlation was found between self-care agency and self-care ({\it r} = .7648, {\it p\/} $<$ .001) as well as between self-care and health ({\it r} = .7650, {\it p\/} $<$ .001). Results of a multiple regression analysis revealed that two subscales of self-care agency (ego strength and health decision-making capability; and attention to health) accounted for 59% of the variance in self-care. Together self-care agency and self-care accounted for 61% of the variance in health. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11274/12523 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Nursing | |
| dc.subject | Health care | |
| dc.subject | Teenage pregnancy | |
| dc.subject | Correlation analysis | |
| dc.title | The relationship between self-care agency, self-care, and health in the pregnant adolescent | en_US |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en_US |
| thesis.degree.college | College of Nursing | en_US |
| thesis.degree.department | Nursing | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Nursing | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Texas Woman's University | en_US |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | en_US |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy |