Prevalencia de embarazo precoz y factores asociados en las adolescentes de los colegios urbanos de la ciudad de Cuenca, periodo lectivo 2011-2012

Abstract

Objective: To determine the prevalence of early pregnancy and associated factors in teenagers from urban high schools of Cuenca city in the academic year 2011-2012.- Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive quantitative study, the sample was obtained using the Epi Info with a universe of 21,270 female students from different urban high schools of Cuenca city. For the calculation we used the 18% expected frequency, a worst acceptable 16.5% with a confidence level of 95% (2253 teenagers). It was added 10% of losses (225 teenagers), which means that the total sample of 2478 teenagers. (n = 2478 teenagers), belonging to 64 schools in the city of Cuenca, obtained by applying the system EPIDAT version 3.1 as simple randomization. The instrument used was a previously validated questionnaire. The results were processed in SPSS 15.00 evaluation version.- Results: The study found that the prevalence of pregnancy among school students in the city of Cuenca is 1.6% for current pregnancy and previous pregnancies 3.6% in the teenagers’ participants.- Conclusions: In pregnant students the associated factors that higher influenced on early pregnancy was: the early sexual initiation, to have a boy friend, the use of contraceptives and previous pregnancies.AU