Diseño de una estrategia educativa para la prevención del embarazo en la adolescencia. Sector San José. centro de Salud Pedro Carbo. año 2018.

Abstract

Background: Pregnancy in adolescence is a problem, sexual prevention programs of recent years have reduced teenage pregnancies in several regions of the world, Latin America the number increases, in Ecuador the MAIS, has priority to pregnant women, having This forms a specialized care, seeking to reduce teen pregnancy rates. Materials and Methods: an observational, cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in the adolescent women population that controls are carried out in the Pedro Carbo health center, March-July 2018, the sample was of 61 adolescents that constitute the universe, who met the criteria of inclusion, with prior informed consent, a survey was used to collect data. Results: socio-demographic characteristics, which prevailed at the age of 18 years with 27.8%, 45.9% registered a basic level of education, 65.5% were housewives and 50.8% were free union, the age of onset of sexual activity at 15 years represented 32.7%, the place of the strategy would be the health center 88.5%. Conclusions: the age of 18 years prevailed in adolescents, with a basic education level. Having as an occupation housewives in a free union, having at the age of 15 their first sexual relationship, which shows that adolescents usually come from economically disadvantaged families, problems are identified and an educational strategy is elaborated to raise knowledge about the risk factors of pregnancy in adolescence.