REASONS THAT LEAD PREGNANT TEENAGERS TO STAY ON PRENATAL CONSULTATION IN A PUBIC MATERNITY AT SALVADOR

Abstract

The teenage pregnancy has been considered a health problem to the brazilian society, by occurring mostly in a extemporaneous and not planned form. The difficulties to confront the modifications related to the gestation in a fase of ncertainties and biopsychosocial transformations can be aggravating to the acceptability and ommitment with the gestation. The goal of the study was to identify the reasons that ead the pregnant teenagers to stay in the prenatal consultations. Using as etodological line the qualitative methodological approach, quantitative and exploratory approach, the sample was composed by 15 teenagers, between them 10 pregnants and 05 puerperals. With the results, could be inferred that the majority of the pregnant teenagers lives in a social context of complete finacial dependency and many suffer direct influency of the family in the decision-making. We considered that the yearnings and cares with the baby’s health contributed in the biggest index of the results that motivated the teenagers to attend to the prenatal.