Prevention of teenage pregnancy in primary health care: a literature review

Abstract

The objective of the work is to know the main ways to prevent teenage pregnancy offered by primary health care. It is based on an integrative literature review, in which the survey of articles was carried out through the following databases: LILACS, MEDLINE and BDENF, from the descriptors in health sciences (DeCS): Pregnancy in Adolescence, Primary Health Care and Health Education and MeSH: Pregnancy in Adolescence, Primary Health Care and Health Education. The descriptors were crossed using the Boolean operator “AND” for simultaneous search of subjects. Original articles available electronically in Portuguese or English were estimated as inclusion criteria. As exclusion criteria: duplicate articles, monographs, reviews, books, theses, articles that do not deal specifically with the topic and whose text is unavailable. Primary care (BA) has a fundamental role in the health education process and in the recommendation of new forms of collective actions and the renewal of practices promoting well-being. It appears, through the analysis of the results, that the number of pregnant women is increasing in adolescence, even with the contraceptive methods adopted and influenced by primary care.