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Volume 7
J Nurs Care, an open access journal
ISSN: 2167-1168
Nursing Global 2018
March 01-03, 2018
March 01-03, 2018 | London, UK
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th
Global Nursing & Healthcare Conference
A programme for prevention of adolescent girl’s unplanned pregnancies through emancipated
decision making
M M Madumo, Y Havenga
and
E J van Aswegen
Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa
T
he purpose of the research was to construct a programme for prevention of unplanned pregnancies in adolescent girls
through emancipated decision-making. Decision making in adolescent unplanned pregnancy prevention is an important
public health issue. Adolescent unplanned pregnancy, although preventable, remains common globally and is usually associated
with negative health and socio-economic outcomes for the baby, adolescents themselves, the family and society. A qualitative,
explorative, descriptive and contextual research design was followed based on the Wittmann-Price Theory of Emancipated
Decision Making ((EDM)) in women’s health care issues. The research took place in four phases: phase 1: situation analysis;
phase 2: concept analysis and the conceptual framework; phase 3: description of the programme as well as guidelines for
the implementation of the programme and phase 4: evaluation of the programme, limitations and recommendations. The
results indicated that adolescent girls need personal knowledge, empowerment, flexible environment, the ability to reflect
and awareness of social norms to be able to make emancipated decisions in preventing unplanned pregnancies. Based on
the results, an emancipatory education programme for enhancing emancipated decision making in pregnancy prevention in
adolescent girls was constructed. Healthcare professionals have the responsibility to practice ethically, be guided by applicable
public policies on adolescent girls’ pregnancy prevention, benchmark the best practices and engage in reflective dialogue with
adolescent girls and colleagues to improve the programme and practice.
Biography
M M Madumo completed her PhD in Nursing Sciences from the University of Limpopo Medunsa Campus in 2014. She is a Senior Lecturer at Sefako Makgatho
Health Sciences University. She specializes in Community Health Nursing Science including Reproductive Health Care. She is also involved in teaching of the
Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Health Nursing as well as supervision of Postgraduate Masters students. She has published three articles in accredited
journals and has written chapters in three Community Health Nursing Science books. She is serving in the School Research Ethics Committee as well as the
Research Publications Committee of the university.
M M Madumo et al., J Nurs Care 2018, Volume 7
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168-C1-064