title: [Accessibility to childbirth attendance for pregnant adolescents in health system's maternities].
abstract: The study aims at the identificantion of factors that interfere in the accessibility of pregnant woman to the attendance of childbirth in the Health System in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is a quantitative study, with a traverse and observational design, carried out at maternities of Health System through structured interview. The sample was constituted of 328 adolescent during postpartum. Data were organized in a database, for subsequent analysis with the use of software EPI INFO version 6.03. Prevalence reason was used as an association measure. The results show that 40.5% of the adolescents were black; 54.9% had finished elementary school; 91.5% had had prenatal attendance. The access was considered unsatisfactory for 36.6% of them, and 20.7% went to more than one maternity for giving birth. It was concluded that the attendance to the pregnant adolescent still needs some adjustments in order to favor their access to services of attendance to childbirth.
authors.affiliation: Secretaria Municipal de Saúde e Defesa Civil do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
authors.forename: Patrícia Santos
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Barbastefano
authors.forename: Vania Reis
authors.initials: VR
authors.lastname: Girianelli
authors.forename: Octavio Muniz da Costa
authors.initials: OM
authors.lastname: Vargens
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008427:Maternal Health Services; D011247:Pregnancy