EXPERIENCE OF A CLINIC OF ATTENTION TO THE EMBARRASSED ADOLESCENT IN A HOSPITAL OF SOCIAL SECURITY IN MEXICO (ISSEMYM) FROM JANUARY 1999 TO DECEMBER 2000

Ley Chavez Eligio

Pediatric Section, Hospital Materno Infantil, ISSEMyM, Toluca, State of Mexico, Mexico

 

Objective: To evaluate the evolution and the final result of the pregnancy in the adolescents and their bio-psico-social repercussions, as much in them as in their children and which are the responsible factors to elaborate a program of integral attention to the adolescents.

Design of the study:  Open, prospective, non experimental, descriptive.

Method:  Pregnant adolescents were studied that went to Adolescent's clinic, age, evolution of the pregnancy, number of granted consultations, execution degree, civil state, school degree, occupation, abortions, way of birth, gestational age, presence or not of congenital malformations; were registered. For the analysis of data, descriptive statistics were used.

Results: 186 pregnant adolescents were studied. The age average was 17 years. 100% of the patient had a normal pregnancy,  and appropiate prenatal control. 22% was underwent to a Caesarean operation, and the rest had normal births. Those recently born ones were normal, without congenital malformations or low birth weight. The opposing problem was the low schoolar degree of the patients and its low educational level: alone 5 of 186 worked; which excludes them of possibilities of improvement. 28% of the patients had 2 or more gestations, and its acceptance for a method of birth-control control was low (52%). The good results were due to the Institutional facilities and the support of the parents. It is required of an educational program so that they make better decisions and elevate their self-esteem.

 

 
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