FACTORES PREDISPONENTES DE EMBARAZO EN ADOLESCENTES QUE ASISTEN AL COLEGIO NACIONAL TOSAGUA, SEPTIEMBRE 2005-FEBRERO 2006

Abstract

With the objective to ident ify and to determine the frequency whereupon they have the factors personal, familiar and social type to the pregnancy in adolescents who attend the National school Tosagua in the matutinal and vespertine section, was made a cross-sectional descriptive study during the period of September 2005 to February 2006. For the effect was applied to 249 students with ages between 11 to 19 years a survey conformed by 18 questions of closed type, related to the variables of the study. Of the analysis one concludes that the personal factors which they predominated in the average adolescence, where we found the greater one I number of adolescents 53%, were menarquía precocious with 46 %, the alcohol consumption 64%, drugs 75%, the active sexual life and lacks of you practice in contraception 38%; whereas the tobacco consumption and previous pregnancy are limited the delayed adolescence. The low self-esteem appeared as much in 43% in the average stage as delayed. The familiar factors that predominated in the average adolescence were the little familiar communication with 68%, the familiar instability with 45%. Within the social factors it is the average stage where the diminution of the value of the virginity represents 83%, the insistence by the pair and the group one to have sexual relations as much represents 1% in the average adolescence as in the delayed one. Finally we can conclude that the group of greater predisposition to a pregnancy is in the average adolescence.