Learning life Skills in Preventing Pregnancy for Students in Higher Education

Abstract

     This research deployed Quasi-experimental Research method aiming to study life skill learning management in preventing unplanned pregnancy for undergraduate students adopting World Health Organization’s life skill concepts in making a lesson plan on life skill learning management in preventing unplanned pregnancy for undergraduate students.  The samples used in this study were 60 sophomore students of academic year 2016, majored in Social Studies by which 30 samples were in a risk group and another 30 samples were in a non-risk group and also interviewed their parents and advisors.  The research instrument used in the study was a questionnaire consisting of three parts: part 1 contained general information of the samples, part 2 consisted of cognitive test, self-recognition and appreciation test on unplanned pregnancy prevention for the undergraduates and negotiation refusing skill test and part 3 contained the tracking results of students’ behaviors after the two-week life skill training was ended.  The data were collected for three times: the first time was collected before conducting life skill training on unplanned pregnancy prevention for undergraduate students, the second time was collected once the activities of life skill training finished and the third time was collected when the two-week life skill training ended.  After that, the general information of both groups was analyzed using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Science).  The general information was analyzed using frequency distribution descriptive statistics to calculate percentage of the samples’ characteristics of both groups and to find mean.  Then, t-test was used to compare the mean scores of cognitive test, self-recognition and appreciation test and negotiation refusing skill test before and after attending the training on life skill learning in preventing unplanned pregnancy for undergraduates.  For the third data collection, the researchers analyzed data using content analysis.

            The results found that both the risk and non-risk groups gained the mean scores of cognition, self-recognition and appreciation and negotiation refusing skill on unplanned pregnancy prevention after training significantly higher than before training at the 0.01 level.  And the result of students’ behavior tracking after the two-week life skill training gathering from the students, their parents and advisors showed that the students had changed into a good way, for example, they knew how to think, self-recognition and appreciation and had better negotiation refusing skill.