[Abortion in adolescence: who committed it in Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil].
This quantitative and cross study aims at establishing a profile of female teenagers, from 12 to 19 years old, that committed abortion in a representative random sample of 2592 adolescents in Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil, in 2005. There were found 149 abortions, where most of them (81.9%) did not have a job, (85%) lived with the parents, (85.2%) were single, (69.8%) studied in a public school and (70.5%) were in high school. The majority had one abortion 93%, but it stands out that 8.5% of them aborted twice and 2.6% four times, showing this data the inadequate attention to teenagers reproductive health. In order to have an abortion, 63.8% of them had support, 83.9% did not have physical complications and 89.3% did not need hospitalization. The conclusion is that the teenagers are getting pregnant and still attending school, looking for abortion as a solution for a not planned pregnancy and that the lack of need of hospitalization post abortion contributes to the statics lack.
Correia
Divanise Suruagy
DS
Faculdade de Medicina (FAMED) da Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL), Brasil. divanises@gmail.com
Monteiro
Vera Grácia Neumann
VG
Egito
Eryvaldo Sócrates Tabosa
ES
Maia
Eulália Maria Chaves
EM
D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000293:Adolescent; D001938:Brazil; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D055815:Young Adult