A sexualidade e a gravidez na adolescência: desafios e estratégias

Abstract

Adolescence is characterized as a period of transition between childhood and adulthood is a stage of human development determined by a series of physical and cognitive changes, and changes to stamp affective, psychological and social environment. In this moment individuals begin to awaken for sexuality. This work was mainly aimed at examining the proposals for the attention focused on adolescents and pregnancy prevention approach, found in national literature. The choice of topic is due to the fact that the area covered by the team of the Family Health Program (FHP) in which the auth or works for a high rate of pregnant teenagers and teenage mothers. Data were collected from the survey done with the Community Health Workers (CHWs), with the identification of adolescents in the area covered by the team and, among these, those who have become pregnant or are pregnant. Concurrently, a survey was conducted on books, notebooks CEABSF study, published by the Ministry of Health, Virtual Health Library (VHL) Bases Scielo, LILACS and BDENF and other sites accessible through the Google Scholar search for studies on to submit projects and interventions that could be replicated in order to better approach and the prevention of teenage pregnancy. We have found the experiences of four projects to prevent teenage pregnancy, and the projects of the Ministry of Health and Education, which showed that the workshops of teenage pregnancy can be a powerful tool for information and prevention, considering its ability to increase the knowledge of adolescents about sexuality, after participating in them