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BENITEZ MEZA, Sara et al. Risk factors related to pregnancy in adolescents aged 14 to 19 years of the San Gerónimo Salado Health Unit, Limpio Paraguay in the period 2020-2021. Rev. cient. cienc. salud [online]. 2022, vol.4, n.2, pp.56-63. ISSN 2664-2891.  https://doi.org/10.53732/rccsalud/04.02.2022.56.

Introduction. Unplanned pregnancy during adolescence is configured as a public health problem. There are multiple risk factors related to this situation, these can be individual, family and sexual. Objective: To describe the distribution of risk factors related to adolescent pregnancy, based on the data obtained at the San Gerónimo de Limpio-Paraguay Health Unit, from January 2020 to November 2021. Methodology: descriptive, quantitative, cross-sectional study of adolescent pregnant women with at least two prenatal visits. Data were obtained by primary source through a survey and by secondary source by reviewing prenatal consultation records. Statistical measures of frequency and percentage distribution were applied. Risk factors possibly related to pregnancy in adolescents were described. Results: 45 pregnant adolescents were included in the study. Among the individual factors, 69% of the adolescents surveyed stated that they had a basic and deficient level of knowledge about family planning and contraceptive methods. Regarding the family factor, in 71% the repetition of family patterns was observed, such as early pregnancies. Conclusion: the study provides information on the risk factors of this vulnerable group of women from the local Family Health Unit, showing the need to increase promotion-prevention actions towards this age group, to improve their sexual health and reproductive.

Palabras clave : Paraguay; teenage pregnancy; risk factors, primary health care.

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