Factores biosociales que intervienen en vel estado nutricional de la adolescente embarazada en el Centro de Salud N°1 del Distrito de Salud 01D01.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To determine the major social bio-factors involved in a nutritional status of adolescents during pregnancy and attending to prenatal care at Health Centre N◦1- District of Health 01D01

METHODOLOGY: A descriptive and quantitative study of teen mothers attended at the Health Centre N◦1 – District of Health 01D01 was performed. In order to get information, a survey with some social bio-variables obtained in the consultations was applied and validated. Thus: maternal age, marital status, education, occupation, socio-economic status, planned or not planned pregnancy, number of prenatal visits and gestational period. For this analysis, a nutritional and socio-economic status was assessed, for which the programme SPSS version 15 was used.

RESULTS: The adolescent population was about 91 persons with an average age of 18.04 years and a standard deviation of 1.04 years. In most of the cases these adolescents were housewives - 46.2%; residents in Cuenca city (single) - 36.3%; with a complete secondary level - 46.2%. Following the assessment of nutritional status, it showed that a 30.8% of pregnant adolescents had a nutritional A category (underweight); a 27.5% a B category (normal); a prevalence of overweight was the 17.6% and obesity the 24.2%. According to the assessment of socio-economic status it was found that a 68.1% of teen mothers had a C socio-economic level; the 22% had a D level and the 9.9% had a B level. The levels A and E were not recorded. Any social bio-factors became associated with a nutritional status (p> 0.05).

CONCLUSIONS: An inadequate frequency of social bio-factors is high, being more common the underweight, overweight and obesity.