Abstract

GONZALEZ-LORENZO, Liena; MARTIN DIPOTE, Milexy Irene  and  CASTRO-MARTINEZ, Jesús Alejandro. Clinical and epidemiological characterization in pregnant adolescents. Medicentro Electrónica [online]. 2019, vol.23, n.3, pp. 261-270. ISSN 1029-3043.

Maternity in adolescents means a risk for their own health and their child. A quantitative, descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional investigation, whose total sample consisted of 115 adolescents, was aimed at describing clinical and epidemiological characteristics of pregnant adolescents, according to variables of interest, between January 2016 and December 2017. It was found that the 71.30% of the sample was in middle adolescence. The highest percentage corresponded to patients from Secondary School (58.26%). The 59.13% had a steady partner, while 63.33% were students. The initiation of the first sexual intercourse was between 12 and 14 years of age (59.13%). Pregnant teenagers between 15 and 18 years predominated. It was found that pregnancies were unplanned. Those who occasionally used the condom during intercourse prevailed, and the diseases with higher incidence were anemia and vaginal infection.

Keywords : pregnancy in adolescence.

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