Autoestima y características obstétricas en adolescentes embarazadas del Centro de Salud Carlos Elizalde, Cuenca 2016

Abstract

PRECEDINGS: Adolescence pregnancy is considered high risk due to the impact on the mother and child’s health; psychologically the mother loses her trust and self-validation based on physical changes, lack of support, abandonment, censorship, social isolation which lead to low self-esteem and depression. GENERAL OBJECTIVE: Establish self-esteem and obstetric characteristics of pregnant adolescents from the Carlos Elizalde Health Center in Cuenca in 2016. METHODOLOGY: A descriptive study was performed with 126 pregnant adolescents who were tested using the Rosenberg esteem scale and a survey on socio demographic variables such as age, civil status, occupation, level of instruction and obstetric characteristics like time of pregnancy, previous use of contraceptive methods, parity and planned pregnancy. To tabulate the date we used Excel and the results were presented using simple charts with its corresponding descriptive analysis. USE OF RESULTS: Average age used was 17.64, 50.79% have a common marriage, 51.59% are housewives, 45.24% have not completed high school, 42.85% of the pregnant adolescents are between 29 and 40 weeks of pregnancy, 50.79% did not used any kind of contraceptive method before this pregnancy, 82.54% were nulliparous, 65.08% expresses that this was a non-planned pregnancy. We found a 37.30% of high self-esteem among pregnant adolescents. CONCLUSIONS: During this study it was identify that the pregnant adolescents who got assistance at the Carlos Elizalde Health Center presented a high level of self-esteem during their pregnancy period.