Effectiveness of Health Promotion on Family Planning at Lospalos Internal Health Center
Keywords:
effectiveness, family planning, health promotionAbstract
Background: Family planning is a deliberate process in which couples decide on the number, spacing, and timing of their children's births. The data and chronology show that the use of contraceptives is still low in Timor-Leste. Objective: This study aims to describe the health promotion effectiveness for family planning at the Lospalos Health Center. Method: A descriptive quantitative study with a pre-test and post-test design was conducted. Samples were taken with a purposive sampling type. The sample size of this study is 67. The data collection technique used a questionnaire. Pre-test and post- test data were analyzed using SPSS with an analysis using Paired Sample T-test. Results: The results of the pre-test survey on family planning showed that the number of respondents who scored less than 50% (≤50%) was 53 (79.1%) with the Negative category, and the respondents who scored more than 50% (˃50%) were 14 (20.9%) with the Positive category. In addition, on the results of the post-health promotion study (post-test) on family planning, the number of respondents who scored less than 50% (≤50%) amounted to 12 (17.9%) with a negative category, and respondents who scored above 50% (˃50%) amounted to 82 (155%) with a positive category. The results of this study were also further strengthened by the T-test analysis test which obtained a significance value of p= ˂ 0.001 (p˂ 0.05) indicating the existence of a highly significant difference between the pre-test and post-test. Conclussion: Health promotion had a great influence on the participants’ improved knowledge, as most of the respondents began to understand and understand well about the Family Planning program.
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