Factores de riesgo en el embarazo adolescente

Abstract

Early or adolescent pregnancy is defined as pregnancy that occurs between 12 -20 years of age. The objective was to determine the risk factors of adolescent pregnancy in the population of Huachi, Totoras, 2022. The research had a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional and non-experimental approach. The sample consisted of pregnant adolescents who voluntarily agreed to participate in the study. A survey-type instrument was applied that evaluated five fundamental aspects corresponding to personal, family, socioeconomic, cultural and psychological risk factors. The data is analyzed according to descriptive statistics. The results show that as individual risk factors are the lack of understanding of the sexual partner (45.71%), within the family risk factors, it was identified that the vast majority of adolescents lived with the mother (62.8%) or the father (54.29%), social pressure was found among the socioeconomic risk factors (17%). Regarding the cultural risk factors, the low level of schooling (75.71%) and early school dropout (48.57%) are evident. Psychological risks correspond to doubts about the ability to get pregnant (32.86%) and ignorance about the risks of having sexual relations (58.57%). It is concluded that individual, family, psychological, cultural and socioeconomic factors include in the presence of adolescent pregnancies.