The effects of counseling program screening Down’s syndrome pregnant women in Health Promotion Hospital, Regional Health Promotion Center 3, Nakhon Sawan

Abstract

This quasi-experiment research involves a two-group design and aims at identifying the effects counseling program screening Down’s syndrome pregnant women in Health Promotion Hospital. The research conducted with pregnant women and divided into two groups; thirty for experimental group and thirty for control group by using purposive sampling. The experimental group had received the counseling program screening Down’s syndrome pregnant women of nursing care, while the control group had received conventional nursing care. The research instruments were counseling program screening Down’s syndrome through computer media and a questionnaire on health status perception. Number, percentage, mean, standard deviation, paired t-test and independent  t-test were used for data analyzing. The findings revealed a significant improve of the experimental group in health status perception and counseling program screening Down’s syndrome pregnant women and control group levels at the level of p < .05 after participated the counseling program screening Down’s syndrome pregnant women. The average score of the experimental group was significantly higher than the control group at the level of p < .05. This study indicated that counseling program screening Down’s syndrome pregnant women was impacted and can be modified health behavior and increasing screening Down’s syndrome pregnant women. Therefore, it should be further study on applying for promoting health behavior with pregnant women.