SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC, REPRODUCTIVE AND OBSTETRIC PROFILE OF TEENAGE PREGNANT WOMEN IN THE CITY OF PORTO VELHO-RO

Abstract

Adolescence is a phase of discovery and physical and mental maturation. Conceiving a pregnancy at this time is a public health problem given the negative impacts that can occur for the pregnant woman and the fetus. Objective: to investigate the sociodemographic, reproductive and obstetric profile of pregnant adolescents seeking obstetric care in a public maternity hospital in Porto Velho-RO, Brazil. It is a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study with 58 pregnant adolescents hospitalized in rooming-in in the municipal maternity of Porto Velho-RO. Most pregnant women were aged between 15 and 19 years (98%), married or in a stable union (66%), sexually active from the age group of 10 to 14 years (52%); use barrier methods as a way to prevent sexually transmitted infections (86%) and unplanned pregnancies (95%). In addition, they were unemployed (59%) and had a family income of less than one minimum wage (62%). These findings demonstrate that pregnant women are in a situation of vulnerability and that there is a need to strengthen reproductive planning actions, given the high percentage of unplanned pregnancies, which leads us to infer that adolescents did not use this method when they became pregnant. It was concluded that it is necessary for nurses and other team members to seek strategies for the development of actions of qualified reproductive and prenatal planning, aiming to mitigate teenage pregnancy.