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GONZALEZ AGUIAR, Aida Gisela  y  QUINTANA LLANIO, Livia. The contraception in adolescents of Revolution Square: 1996-2011. Rev Nov Pob [online]. 2015, vol.11, n.22, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1817-4078.

This descriptive and retrospective study was developed in the service of Gynecology child and youth's Revolution Square to characterize contraceptive use in adolescents who claimed this benefit from July 1996 until December 2011. It included the universe of users who declared to have coital sex (1008). Based on the review of the individual clinical history was analyzed the contraceptive used at first intercourse coital (PRSC), the continuity of employment, acceptance of the method and reason for abandonment. The information was processed using frequency analysis, mean and range.  It was identified in the first sexual relations, 50.5% of women used some method of contraception, the most frequent was the condom. However his subsequent employment was irregular. Oral contraceptive pills were more used and accepted later, followed by intrauterine devices, but with high percentage of rejection under belly pain or menstrual disorders. It was considered the need for work on the induction of the demand for child/youth gynecology service before the PRSC through activation of social networks, community, school, family and other health services, such as the family doctor. We must also raise other providers of health services in primary care and other levels of care in the national health system, to extend timely accessibility of girls for advice and counseling.

Palabras clave : adolescence; contraception; sexual and reproductive health.

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