Clinical-epidemiological characteristics of adolescent multiparous patients attended at the Instituto Nacional Materno Perinatal of Lima, Perú

Abstract

Introduction. Adolescent pregnancy is a public health problem with medical and social consequences. Objective. Determine the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of multiparous puerperal adolescents attended at the Instituto Nacional Materno Perinatal between 2014 and 2016.  Material and methods. A descriptive case series study. The population was made up of all the multiparous adolescent postpartum women attended at the Instituto Nacional Materno Perinatal between 2014 and 2016 whose data were included in the Perinatal Computer System. Results. A total of 567 adolescents were included, 96.3% of the patients belonged to late adolescence, were living in common law union (80.8%), with incomplete secondary education (51.3%), housewives (88.7%), with medium social risk (54.7%) and normal pregestational BMI in 57.7%; the majority (70.7%) were uncontrolled pregnant women, with late onset of prenatal controls (75.5%), predominance of term deliveries (86.2%) and they chose injectables (45.9%) as contraception at discharge. The majority had two pregnancies (85.7%), two deliveries (95.9%), no abortion (89.2%) and predominance of vaginal deliveries (67.5%). Conclusions. The clinical and epidemiological characteristics of adolescent multiparous are similar to previous studies carried out in Peru, with the exception of predominance of term deliveries.