CARACTERIZACIÓN DE EMBARAZOS EN ADOLESCENTES. CENTRO DE SALUD TIPO C, TOSAGUA

Abstract

The present investigation entitled “Characterization of Pregnancies in Adolescents” whose objective was to determine the characteristics of teenage pregnancies in the Type C Health Center, Tosagua; in which he used the inductive-deductive method, it was descriptive, bibliographic and retrospective, during the period from January to June 2019, with a universe of 159 pregnant adolescents treated in the Gynecology-Obstetrics Area of the Type C Health Center, Tosagua , with a sample of 82 pregnant adolescents that was obtained by applying a probabilistic sampling, and making the choice of clinical histories in a simple random way; the statistical method was used in the information processing and the empirical method for the elaboration of the data collection sheet, which allowed to gather all the information on the sociodemographic characteristics of pregnant adolescents, classified as individual, family and social, the obstetric risks and personal aspects of the population studied; whereby the relationship between each of them can be appreciated, leaving as a result that the greatest number of teenage pregnancies is concentrated in rural areas (74.39%), in ages between 17 and 19 years (75.61% ) with a low socioeconomic level (60.98%) and poor sexuality education (80.49%), which resulted in lack of pregnancy planning (75.61%).