Aspectos psicosociales del embarazo en la adolescencia, año 2000

• Main Authors: Elena Ávila Gálvez, Maylén Cid Santana, Ileana García Imia, Antonio Lorenzo González, Pablo Rodríguez
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Editorial Ciencias Médicas 2002-12-01
• Series: Revista Cubana de Pediatría
• Subjects: EMBARAZO EN ADOLESCENCIA; PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL; FEMENINO; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL; FEMALE
• Online Access: http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-75312002000400008

Se realizó un estudio explicativo-observacional, de tipo estudio de casos y controles, en adolescentes entre 10 y 19 años, del sexo femenino, provenientes del Policlínico Docente "Wilfredo Pérez Pérez", en el año 2000, compartidos en 2 grupos: el estudio, con 53 casos que se embarazaron, y el control con 106 adolescentes que no lo hicieron. Se compararon diferentes aspectos de la sexualidad, esfera familiar y sociodemográficos, con el fin de determinar la influencia de algunos aspectos psicosociales del embarazo en la adolescencia. La mayoría de las adolescentes del grupo estudio se incluían en la adolescencia tardía, con inestabilidad en la pareja, mejor nivel de instrucción de los padres, mayor porcentaje que no estudiaba ni trabajaba, con padres divorciados, criadas solamente por la madre, de familias disfuncionales, con inicio precoz de la actividad sexual sin anticonceptivos, con problemas psicológicos que se enmarcaban en el hogar y la familia.<br>An explanatory-observational case-control type-study was performed on female adolescents aged 10-19 years from "Wilfredo Pérez Pérez Teaching Polyclinics in the year 2000. They were divided into two groups: the study group comprising 53 pregnant patients and the control group including 106 adolescents who were not pregnant. Several aspects related to sexuality, family environment and also socio-demographic questions were compared to determine the impact of some psychosocial aspects of pregnancy in adolescence. Most of the adolescents in the study group were in their late adolescence, they had no permanent partner, their parents had a higher level of education; a high number of them neither studied nor worked, their parents were mostly divorced, they were raised by their mothers only, they were from dysfunctional families, with early beginning of sexual intercourse without contraceptives and psychological problems involving the family and the house.