Abstract

FLEITES SANTANA, Niurka; ALVAREZ GONZALEZ, Yosmel; GONZALEZ DUQUE, Iván  and  DIAZ DIAZ, Jayce. Educational intervention on pregnancy in adolescence. "San Francisco" Consejo Popular. Venezuela. Medisur [online]. 2015, vol.13, n.2, pp.248-253. ISSN 1727-897X.

Background:The studies accomplished in the worldwide space on pregnancy in adolescence demonstrate the need of an integral attention that would help the family in young people’s education.Objective: to implement a program of educational intervention that contribute to modify young people’s knowledges on pregnancy in adolescence.Methods: Study of educational intervention in teens of San Francisco community, belonging to the Municipality of Agua Blanca, San Francisco clinic, Portuguesa State, during the period from July 2012 to July 2013. It was worked up with the totality of the universe constituted for 30 teenagers from this zone. An initial opinion poll before the intervention was applied. A cycle of clasees were taught where different topics related to the theme of pregnancy in adolescence such as: complications of pregnancy, optimal age, knowledges of contraception, complications of abortion. Once finished the intervention the same instrument for the evaluation of knowledges was applied.Results:An increasement of the level of knowledge was achieved; The 96.6 % acquired knowledge on the use of contraceptives, the 80 % on the complications of pregnancy, over the 70 % on the complications of abortion, and over the 90 % was evaluated as suitable on the optimal age for pregnancy.Conclusions: Educational intervention proved to be effective to increase the knowledge of teens on the consequences of pregnancy in adolescence, but its principal benefit would be to modify conducts.

Keywords : pregnancy in adolescence; health education; intervention studies; Venezuela.

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