O papel dos enfermeiros da estratégia saúde da família nas atividades de prevenção da gravidez na adolescência

Abstract

This study aimed to describe the role of nurses in the Family Health Strategy in the prevention of teenage pregnancy. The methodology used was an integrative review of literature, by searching databases of health of national banks as the Virtual Health Library - VHL (the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences), Database of Nursing (BDENF), Scientific Electronic Library online (SciELO), graduate Programs in CAPES. It was found that the educational work offered by nurses and humanized the ESF on sexuality, risks and complications of pregnancy and abortion, contraception and access to a broad policy of family planning are essential, and may influence the decrease in the proportion of pregnancy adolescent population. The authors surveyed also emphasized, as a modality of choice in health promotion, group work, which is characterized as an optimal strategy for working with adolescents, increasing its ability to manage their health-disease process. It is concluded that educational content of which is to inform adolescents about the risks and losses of early pregnancy, as well as on its prevention measures are timely as health promotion developed by the nurses of the ESF.