Monday, August 31, 2009

Teenage pregnancy

This is my experience in 4th year to make a research in community hospital. Absolutely, this is one of compulsory programme for the 4th year to create 1 community research per 1 group. And I had a chance to go to Koa Yoi Hospital, 30 beds hospital in Pechburee.


The first day of us start at antepartum clinic, because we had never passed Obstetrics department before (5th year curriculum), we looked clumsy to approach patients and just followed the instruction of generous nurses.


After finishing the morning antepartum clinic, we met the administrator of the hospital and found out that he is specialized in Obstetrics. Wow! it’s no doubt that this small 30 beds community hospital is capable of ceasarean section including complication cases and there are lots of antepartum cases in ANC


In ANC we realized that most of pregnant are teenage, the data was inspected and we found out 46% of ANC pregnant is lower than 20 years old.


That is not a trouble?? Or they disregard . Almost of folk here haven’t thought teenage pregnancy is a trouble at all because it is too easy to find teenage pregnant in this society. In addition their mothers as well as their granny were teenage mother as well.


So we start and use this problem as my community research


The activity that impressed me much was workshop for elementary students; Prathom 5-6 about sex education. Due to the children are cooperative and the topic is interesting, everything was all right


The other subplan is visiting and approach night-working teenage girls. Their family problems and their background were not different from the character in soap opera. These life story teach me to open my eyes, be broad-minded and understand others more. However their lifestyle and vision could not be changed after 2 visits absolutely but hopefully my advice can give them more advantages, Give up smoking, have safe sex and return to have a school life again if it is possible.


Absolutely, I got such a memorable time for creating my first own research, managing intervention. Though it just a simple research that take only 1 month, I am very proud and got much advantage for this.








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