Projeto de intervenção para diminuir o alto índice de gravidez na adolescência na comunidade de Acrelândia, Acre

Abstract

Teenage pregnancy is a public health problem that is increasing every day, regardless of the development of society and of the audiovisual media by which adolescents are informed about the risks of the situation and its consequences. The Brazil does not get out of this global problem, which affects the physical and mental health of adolescents. The present work presents the situation of the municipality of Acrelândia on family health unit Ricardo Monteiro Scrolls, where a significant percentage of the population teenager is pregnant or have had a child, because of the increasingly early exposure to sexuality, on the part of young acreanas. This index has grown in the last 10 years, resulting in an increase of births among the young people of the age group between 15 to 19 years. The number of pregnancies in this age group in Acre is nearly twice the national average, and the municipality of Acrelândia and UBS Ricardo Monteiro show a high index, with more than 25% in this condition. This fact was the reason that justified this work, which aimed to build a proposed educational intervention to reduce the incidence of pregnancy in adolescents. The Situational Strategic Planning performed the work, being used the situational diagnosis and knowledge of the territory studied, in addition to a review of the literature. It is expected to increase the knowledge of contraceptive methods in order to decrease teen pregnancy and promote better communication of teenagers and parents with the development of more educational activities, promotion and prevention.