Profile of pregnant adolescents and their concepts cared for at the reference maternity in Abreu e Lima - Pernambuco

Abstract

Purpose: To describe the characteristics of adolescent mothers and their concepts attended in public maternity in Abreu e Lima - Pernambuco. Methods: Exploratory and analytical study. The sample was census in the year 2017. The parameters of the quantitative variables were expressed by their means and standard deviations and median. The parameters of the qualitative variables were expressed by their frequencies. T- test was used to verify differences between means. The correlation test was used between the parameters of the maternal and newborn variables. p ≤ 0.05 was considered for rejection of the null hypothesis. The project was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee. Results: The mean age of pregnant adolescents was 17.3±1.4 years. There was a predominance of the: brown color, condition of being single and domestic. Seventy-six (23.5%) had leukorrhea, 13
(4.0%) were serological positive for syphilis and five (1.5%) had systemic arterial hypertension. The mean gestational age of these adolescents at the end of gestation was 39.2 ± 1.5 weeks. The majority of the concepts was sent to the joint accommodation. There was no correlation between the characteristics of pregnant women and their concepts. Conclusions: The profile of pregnant adolescents enrolled in the investigation was 12 to 19 year old, with a predominance of 15 to 19 year old, mostly single, low schooling, brown, with a high prevalence of leukorrhea and syphilis. No relationship was found between the characteristics of adolescents and characteristics of their concepts.