Educational strategy for the prevention of teenage pregnancy

Abstract

One of the objectives of the National Plan “Creating opportunities” 2021-2025 is to guarantee the right to comprehensive health, an elementary reason that allows, within the policies of the Ecuadorian state, to improve the conditions for the exercise of the right to health, emphasizing care for women, children and adolescents. This research work is the result of a project, whose objective was to strengthen, through educational strategies, sexual and reproductive health services in a comprehensive, inclusive and quality manner to counteract the high rates of teenage pregnancy in the southern area of Manabí, A qualitative, descriptive, phenomenological study of population studies was carried out with a retrospective and historical-logical nature based on a situational health diagnosis, applying the MSP family file, in the sectors and communities to be impacted in District 13D03. It was possible to identify the health determinants that are related to sexuality that affect adolescents; health promotion and comprehensive care; creation or strengthening of adolescent clubs in intervention sites; creation of a school for parents in the intervention sites; health education on issues related to sexuality in adolescents; promote positive attitudes that strengthen self-esteem and coping with emotional states in adolescents.