Women’s Health, Gynecology and Obstetrics

Pregnant women’ health during pregnancy can be maintained by self-care practices. Self-care behavior can prevent health

problems during pregnancy and childbirth. Adolescent pregnancy had higher risk complications during pregnancy than

pregnant adults. Th e self-care behaviors are important and necessary for pregnancy among teenagers. Th is study aimed to study

the level of self-care behavior, knowledge of self-care, belief in self-effi cacy, maternal role acceptance, social support from close

relatives and social support from medical personnel among the adolescent pregnancy, to compare the pregnant teenagers’ selfcare

behaviors and to determine predictors of pregnant teenagers’ self-care behaviors. Th e samples of 231 pregnant teenagers

attending ANC clinics of two government hospitals in Samut Sakhon Province of Th ailand and were derived by Stratifi ed

Random Sampling Technique. Data collection was questionnaires constructed by the researcher. Th e data were analyzed by

using descriptive and inferential statistics. Th e results revealed that the teenagers’ knowledge of self-care, belief in self-effi cacy,

maternal role acceptance and social support from close relatives were found at the moderate level, the social support from

medical personnel and self-care behavior were found at the high level. Th e pregnant teenagers’ self-care behaviors was classifi ed

by age, marital status, educational level, occupation, family’s monthly income, and order of off spring were diff erent statistic

signifi cant at p<0.05. Th e pregnant teenagers’ knowledge of self-care, maternal role acceptance, social support from close

relatives and social support from medical personal predicted the pregnant teenagers’ self-care behavior at the percentage of 63.8

with statistic signifi cant at p=0.001.