Food insecurity in adolescent pregnant women served in primary care of the public health network

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Amanda Cibelle de Souza
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Assunção, Magnólia de Jesus Sousa Magalhães
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/10364
• topic: El embarazo; Adolescencia; Inseguridad alimentaria; Nutrición.; Gravidez; Adolescência; Insegurança alimentar; Nutrição.; Pregnancy; Adolescence; Food insecurity; Nutrition.

Pregnancy is a period when a woman is vulnerable due to changes that occur in her body. The nutritional status in the preconceptional period is a determining factor for embryonic development. The objective of this study is to assess food insecurity and its associated factors in pregnant adolescents seen in primary care. This is a quantitative cross-sectional study, as it takes objectivity into account, enabling the measurement of its results through the analysis of data and statistical tools. A sample of 185 pregnant teenagers attended at the basic health units in Caxias-MA. Among the interviewees, 157 (84.9%) are aged between 15 and 17 years. As for education, only 21 (11.4%) said they had completed high school. Of the 185 adolescents, 14 (7.6%) reported having planned the pregnancy, while 171 (92.4%) said the pregnancy was unwanted. As for nutritional status, 29 (50.8%) had grade I obesity and 1 (1.8%) is in the grade III obesity category. Regarding AI, 80 (43.2%) are on the moderate scale and 38 (20.5%) on the severe scale. It is concluded that AI increases the chances of nutritional disorders, excessive weight gain or loss, predisposition to chronic comorbidities, among other unfavorable situations.