Universitárias que foram mães adolescentes: aspectos pessoais, sociais e familiares para continuidade nos estudos

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Betânia Eneida de Morais
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório do Centro Universitário Braz Cubas
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.cruzeirodosul.edu.br/handle/123456789/624
• topic: Gravidez; Maternidade; Adolescência; Educação; Maternagem; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA::SAUDE PUBLICA

Adolescence is a period of human development marked by exhausting processes with psycho emotional and biological transformations. The changes in sexual behavior, which increasingly begins earlier, may trigger a series of undesirable effects, such as Sexually Transmitted Diseases or unplanned pregnancy. The growing interest in teenage pregnancy is based on social, biological, familial, emotional and economic issues that can affect them as well as the whole society. Despite the changes that an adolescent pregnancy may result in the life of a young girl, including the abandonment of her studies, some factors may assist her to continue them and even go to a university. The aim of this study was to know how college teenage mothers were able to continue their studies, associating personal, socioeconomic and family relationships, as well as to evaluate the major factors concerning the care of the newborn. It was a retrospective and descriptive study, conducted using the Internet, through an invitation to the students who were adolescent mothers. The invitation was posted on the communication platform of the University, and the interviewees were given a questionnaire access login, ensuring confidentiality and anonymity through informed consent. The capture of the data was performed by Survey Monkey software, developed to facilitate various activities on-line in a secure manner without identifying the interviewees. 171 college students participated. It was observed that the household income is associated with a good social and economic level. Regarding the reception of news of the pregnancy, responses showed that this was received negatively by their relatives in 40.9%. Considering the support to continue studying, a majority indicated their parents as the most relevant, representing 55% of responses, followed by 40.6% who claimed to be the father of her child, and 27.5%, the family of the father of her child. Nevertheless, the most important aspect was that 71.9% continued studying by their own will. About the support received for the parenting of newborns, 81.3% indicated the aid of their mothers, the grandmother; secondly 18.7% of them relied on the help of the father of her child. We conclude that the results showed there was link between socioeconomic factors, personal and family for continuing studies. And the personal factor, as the will itself was the most decisive for the university.