title: [Sociodemographic characteristics of the pregnant adolescent in a high specialty hospital].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The adolescents' pregnancy is a public health problem related to sociocultural and economic factors which compromise the mother-son binomial. The aim of this paper is to identify the socio-demographic characteristics of pregnant adolescents from the hospital.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective, descriptive and observational study, in which all pregnant patients between 10 and 19 years from the Hospital, during June 2012 and January 2014, were studied. The following data were collected: age, scholarship, occupation, marital status, age at beginning of sexual relations, number of sexual partners, contraceptive use and type of contraceptive method, pregnancies, parturition, cesarean section and abortions. Statistical analysis: Descriptive statistic was used, consistent in central tendency and dispersion measures.
  
  
  RESULTS
  608 adolescent were studied, age was 16.7 ± 1.2 years, 50.2% were students, 35.1% unemployed, 29.5% were single and 25.2% married. In 79% was its first pregnancy. The age at beginning of sexual relations was at 15.0 ± 1.3 years; 39% didn't use contraceptive method and 24.5% hadn't addictions. The pregnancy wasn't planned nor wished in 78.1%. Gestational age was between 8 and 44 weeks, this latter due to no confident amenorrhea and 56.7% had associated pathology. The mean age of the couple was 20.6 ± 3.8 years, 84.1% worked and 64.2% hadn't addictions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The opportune detection of risk factors will allow the prevention and attention of the teenage pregnancy.
authors.affiliation: Clínica de la Adolescente, Hospital de Ginecoobstetricia 4 "Luis Castelazo Ayala", Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Ciudad de México, México. drsebastiancarranza@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Jaime
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Blanquet-García
authors.forename: Aminta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Montoya-Cázarez
authors.forename: Sebastián
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Carranza-Lira
mesh_terms: D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000293:Adolescent; D002585:Cesarean Section / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002648:Child; D003267:Contraception / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004651:Employment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006771:Hospitals, Maternity; D006801:Humans; D017533:Marital Status / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008800:Mexico; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Adolescents; Mexico; Pregnancy in adolescence; Socioeconomic factors