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Gaceta médica de México
versión On-line ISSN 2696-1288versión impresa ISSN 0016-3813
Resumen
VANEGAS-COVENA, Diana Patricia; PARRON-CARRENO, Tesifón; ARANDA-TORRES, Cayetano y ALARCON-RODRIGUEZ, Raquel. Factores de riesgo asociados con embarazos no deseados en mujeres estudiantes de medicina. Gac. Méd. Méx [online]. 2019, vol.155, n.4, pp.357-362. Epub 01-Jul-2021. ISSN 2696-1288. https://doi.org/10.24875/gmm.19004627.
Introduction:
Most pregnancies in adolescents and young adults are unwanted and many are the consequence of inconsistent contraception use.
Objective:
To analyze the risk factors that may influence on female adolescents with unwanted pregnancies.
Method:
Cross-sectional, descriptive study in Ecuadorian female medical students, where the 2013 National Sexual and Reproductive Health Survey, the family APGAR scale, and the Graffar-Méndez Castellanos socio-economic scale were used.
Results:
There was statistically significant difference in the age of active sexual life initiation between those who became pregnant (18.11 ± 1.45) and those who did not (19.22 ± 2.28). Average age at pregnancy was 20.41 ± 2.18; 59.3 % of those who had a pregnancy and 32% of those without pregnancy did not use protection in their first intercourse. Pregnancy was more common in city residents (100%), Catholic females (85.2%), who belonged to middle-high (55.6%) and middle-high socioeconomic strata (29.6%) and to families with moderate dysfunction (40.7%).
Conclusions:
A significant percentage of adolescents in our study had an unwanted pregnancy at an early age despite being young undergraduate medical students, coming from moderately dysfunctional families and belonging to a middle-high socioeconomic status.
Palabras llave : Medical students; Pregnancy; Contraception; Family functionality; Socioeconomic stratum.