Características sociodemográficas y tipos de aborto de las adolescentes que acudieron al Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso durante el periodo 2003-2013

Abstract

Background: teenage pregnancy is a public health problem, there are no physical, biological, or physiological preparation to take a physiologically appropriate pregnancy; being one of the main problems of the teenage mother, abortion puts in risk both mother and child.

General purpose: Determine sociodemographic characteristics and different types of abortion of teenagers that went to Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital during the 2003 – 2013 periods.

Methodology: A descriptive and quantitative study has been made in in all adolescents hat had gone to present their abortion, for what the Stadistic Department registration books had been reviewed, the information were analyzed in the “SPSS” 15 program, where simple tabloids and variable relations have been made, with their respective frequencies and percentages; in the quantitative variables, data as standard deviation were obtained.

Results: The universe was was of the 901 cases of adolescents that suffered abortion. In our study, adolescents between the ages of 17-19 correspond to the highest percentage of abortions (78.8%), most from the city of Cuenca (73.5%). As for the Civil State a 38.4% were single, With respect to primary education level corresponds to the highest percentage (63,4%), and the type of abortion most frequent was the incomplete abortion (38.3%).

Conclusion: during this period there has not existed a considerable decrease of cases of abortion in adolescents even though sexual education and reproductive has incremented