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Table 4 Intervention strategies for pregnancy prevention based on HBM

From: Assessing the impact of an educational intervention program on sexual abstinence based on the health belief model amongst adolescent girls in Northern Ghana, a cluster randomised control trial

Target variable

Procedure

Practice techniques

Educational strategies

Perceived susceptibility and Perceived severity

General information about behavioural risk, including susceptibility to adolescent pregnancy, the severity of adolescent pregnancy

Provide information on behavioural risk through posters, pamphlets and discussions

Lecturing Discussion

Perceived benefits Perceived barriers

Information about the benefits and cost of getting pregnant, focusing on what will happen if a person does or does not get pregnant

Provide information on the significance of not getting pregnant as adolescents

Discussion Brainstorming Lecturing

Perceived barriers

Identify barriers to of avoiding pregnancy and ways of overcoming them

Identify barriers to abstinence

Problems based learning Role-playing Discussions

Perceived self-efficacy Knowledge of contraception

Information on contraceptives And the demonstration of how to put on condom

Provide instruction and model demonstration

Lecturing Demonstrations Practice

Knowledge of reproductive system and reproduction

Information on reproductive organs and their functions

Provide information through posters, pictures and models

Demonstration Lecturing

Perceived self-efficacy

Information on decision-making skills.

Encourage decision-making through role-playing and scenarios.

Problem-based learning