Assistência pré-natal para adolescentes grávidas: uma análise crítica em uma unidade básica de saúde

Abstract

Studies have shown that pregnant adolescents begin prenatal care later and are smaller in number when compared to women 20 years or more. The quality of prenatal care has a direct influence on the outcome of pregnancy among adolescents. This study aimed to examine the care of prenatal care for pregnant adolescents conducted by health professionals in a unit of health, assess the clarity and dynamics of information provided to pregnant adolescents during the prenatal consultation, survey and analyze how the pregnant teenager has absorb the information given in the pre-natal consultation, identifying the perceptions of nurses in prenatal consultation of the pregnant teenager in the basic unit of health; propose recommendations to improve the quality of care in the pre -natal unit for pregnant adolescents in primary health care. This is an exploratory-descriptive research with a qualitative approach. The sample consisted of 30 pregnant adolescents with an average age of 10 to 19 years, which were submitted to the consultation questionnaires related to prenatal and 02 nurses who work directly in the program of prenatal CS of Paragraph 03. The results indicated that most adolescents engraver in the second stage of adolescence when they are studying and that the more active work in prenatal care is the doctor. As understanding of the recommendations made in consultation with prenatal said 96.7% of adolescents believe is what professional and 76.7% say that the questions about pregnancy are addressed in the Pre-natal consultation. On the nurses, they do not recognize the need to deploy the unit to prenatal care varies , justified by the lack of a multidisciplinary team at the health center, but noted that questions of adolescents are assisted after consultation, this is not confirmed by the perceptions pregnant.