Return visit compliance and noncompliance among adolescent family planners

Author

Ola Lumpkin Jennings

Date of Award

8-1992

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy

Major

Social Work

Major Professor

Catherine Faver

Committee Members

Jane Kronick, Greer L. Fox, Benjamin Granger

Abstract

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.

Recommended Citation

Jennings, Ola Lumpkin, "Return visit compliance and noncompliance among adolescent family planners. " PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 1992.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/10926