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YEAR: 1969

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Planned parenthood concepts for public health nurses: evaluation of some

aspects of an in-service program.

AUTHORS

Washington State Department of Health and Seattle King County Department of

Public Health. Division of Nursing

SOURCE

Seattle, Seattle-King County Department of Public Health, 1969 Jul. 48 p.

ABSTRACT

The Seattle-King County Health Department, Division of Nursing, conducted a workshop to increase its staff's skills

at providing family planning information. Family life, marital adjustment, questions of infertility, and child spacing

were the main topics. The participants were staff nurses who completed questionnaires administered at the

beginning of the workshop, at the end of the workshop, and again after 8 months, regarding attitude toward birth

control, knowledge of facts about planned parenthood, and background of respondents. The majority of the nurses

(112 completed questionnaire series) were aged 25-44, Protestant, college graduates, married, without children, and

had been in public health nursing less than 5 years. Their attitudes toward birth control were moderately favorable,

Protestants more so than Catholics. Feelings of confidence in being able to assist families effectively in family

planning was highly related to attitudes toward birth control. Respondents with unfavorable attitudes also tended to

feel ineffective in assisting families in health education. Although feelings of effectiveness greatly increased in all

participants during the workshop, Protestants were still more likely to feel effective. Younger respondents and those

who had less than 5 years work experience tended to feel more effective than older, more experienced respondents.

(PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT9T 540-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Planned parenthood concepts for public health nurses:

evaluation of some aspects of an in-service program.", is(are) Washington State Department of Health and Seattle

King County Department of Public Health. Division of Nursing. The source of this article is "Seattle, Seattle-King

County Department of Public Health, 1969 Jul. 48 p.". This article was published in 1969 in English language(s).

(PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT9T 540-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 40540

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