The interruption of pregnancy amongst adolescents: Epidemiologic aspects in a public (stately run) maternity in Northeast Brazil [A interrupção da gravidez na adolescência: Aspectos epidemiológicos numa maternidade pública no nordeste do Brasil]

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2012

Authors

Chaves, JHB (Author) Other; Pessini, L (Author) Other; de Sousa, AFB (Author) Other; Guilhermina Rego (Author) FMUP; Rui Nunes (Author) FMUP

Journal

Title: Saúde e Sociedade

Vol. 21

Pages: 246-256

ISSN: 0104-1290

Publisher: Universidade de São Paulo

Indexing

Scopus - 3 Citations

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-008-41J

DOI: 10.1590/s0104-12902012000100023

Abstract (EN): The induced abortion is widely practiced by women in the context illegal in Brazil, considered a public health issue. To understand the complications and the clinical, behavioral and socio-demographic aspects and type of abortion in adolescents undergoing uterine curettage. A descriptive method based on interviews using a structured questionnaire related to the care of 201 adolescents with incomplete abortion and that underwent curettage in a hospital of the Health System, Maceió Alagoas. Adolescents at risk of causing abortion are over sixteen, brown, with a stable partner, with either a wanted or an unwanted first pregnancy, gestational age less than 15 weeks; rare complications related to abortion, and the classification of World Health Organization, induced abortion in 98.01% of cases. Among the certainly caused miscarriages, 89.19% reported the use of misoprostol, which enhance greater public investment in assisting the use of contraceptives among adolescents by respecting their sexual and reproductive rights.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific