Teen Pregnancy

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Hey everyone!

I recently started my BSN and I have a health promotion project that I'm working on. The topic is preventing teen pregnancy in females ages 15-19. My objective is to increase knowledge to teenage girls about abstinence, contraceptive methods, and safe sex practices. I am running into a roadblock with presenting 2 potential barriers for behavior change for my health promotion project and a strategy to address those barriers. I'm hoping someone can help.

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You can't come up with 2 barriers to behavior change when you're discussing teenagers?! :lol2:

I guess being in the middle of raising several makes this seem more obvious to me but.....

What do you think might be some generally applicable barriers to behavior change among this age group?

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.
Hey everyone!

I recently started my BSN and I have a health promotion project that I'm working on. The topic is preventing teen pregnancy in females ages 15-19. My objective is to increase knowledge to teenage girls about abstinence, contraceptive methods, and safe sex practices. I am running into a roadblock with presenting 2 potential barriers for behavior change for my health promotion project and a strategy to address those barriers. I'm hoping someone can help.

There are political barriers to various portions of your behavioral change. And political barriers can mean funding barriers. Maybe?

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Specializes in Pedi.

Abstinence only sex education is an obvious one.

What are the states with the highest rates of teen pregnancy? What kind of sex education do those states provide?

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Peer pressure and access to contraceptives

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Specializes in ICU and Dialysis.

Parents can often be super resistant to the idea that their teenage children might be having sex.

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Single parent household.

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Single parent household.

What?

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After reading the answers you've gotten so far, many of which are very far off base, I think you need to start by understanding what behavior change you are looking for. Are you looking for teens to stop having sex? Or to use birth control?

Next, you need to understand and define what the word "barrier" means in this context.

If you are looking for teens to stop having sex you have some really obvious behaviors. The most obvious one is the sex drive. Teens are hormonally driven to have sex. That's a barrier to abstinence. There are others you could argue, but they are not as srrong. Teens have been having sex across cultures and time due to the sex drive.

When it comes to birth control you have more varied and interesting barriers. Access to birth control is one. The discipline to use it is another.

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