Return visit compliance and noncompliance among adolescent family planners

This exploratory cross-sectional research attempted to discover the reasons why teenagers who were enrolled for family planning services in a southern public health district experienced return visit compliance and noncompliance after adoption of a contraceptive method. The major features considered in this research were whether any of the teenagers' reproductive health history characteristics, along with elements from a modified version of the original Health Belief Model, provided an empirical base for describing those who kept and did not keep their scheduled return clinic visits for follow-up care. Black teenage family who fell in both categories were contacted and administered a questionnaire to gather their individual characteristics and reasons. A comparison of the information from the questionnaires were carried out using Chi-Square and the T-Test . The results of all analyses revealed some significant findings on demographic and reproductive health history characteristics and health perceptions. An interesting beginning profile of the comparison groups emerged.