Factores asociados en adolescentes embarazadas en un Centro de Salud en la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

Of all pregnancies in the world, 10% occur in adolescent women. Early pregnancy is associated with adverse effects, in the short and medium term, in the mother-child binomial. Despite the interventions made, teenage pregnancy shows historical resistance to decline, which has attracted the attention of authorities and the national and international community, in adolescents is a controversial issue in society, since it is worrisome observe the immaturity in these early ages of life, starting with problems of indications of abortions, to overcrowding, that is, live in the same family up to three or four couples who are in precarious conditions, all this causes a little planning family, added to not have a medical culture rooted in society make a great problem is formed within society, so this study was conducted with the objective of determining the factors associated in the pregnancy of adolescents from 12 to 19 years , the methodology contemplated a descriptive, quantity, prospective cross-sectional study, with a sample conformed by 50 patients. Taking as a result some factors associated with adolescent pregnancy, such as the economic ones in 38% and family members 62%, reaching the conclusion that the family environment is one of the main ones of this type of problems, as the mood of adolescents decreases that present severe depression and stress, without having psychological treatments.