Assistência pré-natal e resultados perinatais de gestantes adolescentes e em idade tardia comparados com gestantes com idade entre 19 e 34 anos

Abstract

Health professionals and government entities consider teenage pregnancy as a public health problem. In addition, there is an extreme concern with late pregnancy and its associated factors, whether maternal and/or perinatal. The purpose of this study was to verify prenatal care and the adverse perinatal outcomes in teenagers pregnancy and advanced maternal age pregnancy and compared with pregnant women aged between 19 and 34 years old, who gave birth at the Hospital Municipal de Governador Valadares, from May 2017 to July 2018. For the group of pregnant teenagers, the following variables were significantly associated: education, family income, marital status, parity, abortion, urinary tract infection, number of prenatal appointments , and first prenatal appointment . For the late age group, the following variables were significantly associated: education, parity, gestational diabetes, chronic hypertension, preeclampsia/ eclampsia and type of delivery. In conclusion, this study demonstrated that adolescent pregnant women and pregnant women at a late age have a greater chance of complications during pregnancy compared to pregnant women of reproductive age. This study may contribute to the formulation of strategies for prevention, promotion and monitoring of this population, providing an improvement in maternal and child health.