| Summary: | Introduction: adolescent pregnancy is considered a problem of public health. The existing
care measures do not influence, in a decisive way, in the education of the adolescents,
they do not bear in mind neither the familiar niche nor the social niche of poverty that
the adolescents have to affront, which lead them to an active sexual life to early age.
Where, personal, familiar and social risk factors participate. To overcome them is a matter
of educational and economic policies that promote the sexual and reproductive rights of
the woman.
Objective: to characterize the social factors that are present in pregnant adolescents.
Methods: qualitative study of intentional sampling, interviews and focal groups with
analysis according to the theory based on pregnant adolescents that attend to the Clínica
Maternidad Rafael Calvo, Cartagena, Colombia.
Results: personal, familiar and social factors were observed in stories that reveal: “My
family did not pay attention to me and I did not fix my limits… I had the support and
love of my partner, and although I was not prepared for the pregnancy, it was something
that I wanted to go out of my house”. Or in another expression: “I remained a
pregnant woman because my friends had sexual relationships and they were telling
me… To me, these secrets touched me”.
Conclusions: it was observed that pregnant adolescents were in a context lacking
in options, which favor decisions in conducts of risk. The state has the obligation and
the responsibility of proposing social actions of prevention. Rev.cienc.biomed.
2013;4(2):262-269
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