Abstract

RAMIREZ FERNANDEZ, Clara Esther et al. Prenatal visit of pregnant teenagers and interruption of pregnancy during a five year period in Santiago de Cuba province . MEDISAN [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.9, pp. 5010-5017. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross-sectional study of the adolescents under prenatal screening visits, and/or interruption of pregnancy, was carried out in Santiago de Cuba, during the five year period 2007-2011, aimed at characterizing them according to age groups, methods and interruption procedures for pregnancy, and also to determine the reason why the prenatal visit and pregnancy interruption occurred, as well as why prenatal visit and artificial abortion took place. The results showed that the most used method to interrupt pregnancy was the menstrual regulation, with a declining tendency to use it; meanwhile an increase of the artificial abortion and the number of pregnancies was observed, with a higher number of interruptions compared to the prenatal visits. It was recommended to increase the educational work on sexual and reproductive health in the youth and their relatives, so as to decrease the quantity of pregnancies in the adolescents and their interruptions, so that the life quality of this female population improves.

Keywords : adolescents; pregnancy in adolescence; artificial abortion; menstrual regulation.

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