GRAVIDEZ NA ADOLESCÊNCIA: UMA ANÁLISE A PARTIR DA ATENÇÃO BÁSICA À SAÚDE NA UBS DE CRUZ DAS ARMAS

Abstract

The present work that deals with ―Pregnancy in Adolescence‖ was identified during the Supervised Internship in Social Work at Cândida Vargas Maternity in 2018-2019. It is a social problem that affects young women, students, still in the process of physical, psychological and socio-affective development, intervening in the process of schooling and professionalization. The research that subsidizes the construction of the Course Conclusion Work has the general objective of analyzing the incidence of teenage pregnancy in the Family Health Unit in the Cruz das Armas neighborhood in João Pessoa-PB. The specific objectives were intended to: carry out a survey of the literature relevant to the topic of teenage pregnancy in specialized magazines in the field of health, education and social assistance, carrying out an analysis of the topics covered; characterize the service provided at the Family Health Unit in the Cruz das Armas neighborhood in João Pessoa-PB and the profile of pregnant adolescents; perform, record and analyze health prevention actions on teenage pregnancy at the Family Health Unit in the Cruz das Armas neighborhood in João Pessoa-PB. The research universe involved the adolescent public served at the health unit locus of research. We adopted qualitative research to investigate the phenomenon of teenage pregnancy, through the beginning of bibliographic and documentary research and then through observation (unsystematic and systematic) and the application of mixed questionnaires at the beginning and after educational activities. The collected data will be systematized and presented according to the nature (quanti or qualitative). The work made it possible to construct a panorama of the problem of teenage pregnancy from a concrete experience in a health unit.