title: Effect of prenatal counselling on compliance and outcomes of teenage pregnancy.
abstract: 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 (counselling) 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).
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. khomarkh@yahoo.com
authors.forename: F A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Mersal
authors.forename: O M
authors.initials: OM
authors.lastname: Esmat
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Khalil
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004534:Egypt; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D010349:Patient Compliance / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011295:Prenatal Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data