Knowledge about preconception risk in adolescents with active sexual life
Keywords:
teenage pregnancy, sexual health, maternal mortalityAbstract
Introduction: knowing about preconception risk during active sexual life in adolescence is of vital importance to reduce maternal-fetal complications.
Objective: to identify the knowledge about preconception risk in a group of adolescents with active sexual life.
Methods: a clinical, descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted in the Polyclinic Aquiles Espinosa Salgado, in the municipality of Las Tunas, Cuba. The universe was 70 women, and the following variables were studied: patients by Basic Working Group, marital status, knowledge about contraceptive methods, and knowledge about preconception risk factors and consequences of teenage pregnancy. The information obtained was presented in tables and the results were shown in percentages
Results: 65.7% of adolescent have accompanied marital status; 75.7% identify tablets as a contraceptive method; 94.3% recognize adolescence as a non-modifiable preconception risk factor, and 15.7% believe that promiscuity is a modifiable factor. The consequence of pregnancy in adolescence most indicated by those studied was interrupting studies, for 38.5%.
Conclusions: the patients of the Basic Working Group 1 showed greater knowledge, but in general, the level of knowledge achieved on preconception risk was evaluated as poor.Downloads
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