Table VI.
Attitudes towards pregnancy planning from an HBM perspective in the IG, CG1 and CG2 at baseline and follow-up.
| Item | Response alternatives | IG |
CG1 |
CG2 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline (n = 101) (%) | Follow-up (n = 89) (%) | P-valuea | Baseline (n = 100) (%) | Follow-up (n = 85) (%) | P-valuea | Follow-up (n = 88) (%) | ||
| Perceived susceptibility | ||||||||
| How likely is it that you would ever experience an unplanned pregnancy? | 0.021 | 0.001 | ||||||
| Very/quite likely | 13 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 11 | |||
| Neither likely nor unlikely | 31 | 24 | 32 | 20 | 17 | |||
| Very/Quite unlikely | 56 | 72 | 62 | 79 | 72 | |||
| Perceived severity of consequences | ||||||||
| How important is it to you to get pregnant at the time you have planned? | 0.181 | 0.800 | ||||||
| Very/quite important | 57 | 64 | 66 | 64 | 65 | |||
| Neither important nor unimportant | 30 | 24 | 17 | 21 | 19 | |||
| Totally/quite unimportant | 8 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 11 | |||
| Wish never to become pregnant | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | |||
| Pregnancy planning as cue to action | ||||||||
| Imagine that you would like to become pregnant within 6 months. How likely is it that you would make any lifestyle changes? | 0.028 | 0.556 | ||||||
| Very/quite likely | 78 | 85 | 71 | 79 | 75 | |||
| Neither likely nor unlikely | 9 | 7 | 15 | 12 | 9 | |||
| Very/quite unlikely | 13 | 8 | 14 | 9 | 14 | |||
| Perceived self-efficacy | ||||||||
| Do you feel that you can influence if and when you become pregnant? | 0.806 | 0.106 | ||||||
| Very/quite much | 75 | 83 | 86 | 84 | 81 | |||
| Neither much nor little | 18 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 15 | |||
| Very/quite little | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |||
HBM, health belief model.
aP-value for difference between baseline and follow-up, analysed with Wilcoxon signed ranks test.