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- Title
Characteristics of teenage mothers and their newborns in a city of Minas Gerais in 2009.
- Authors
Santos, Aline Talita dos; Melo, Cynthia Maria Chiaradia de; Ribeiro, Waldere Fabri Pereira
- Abstract
The objective of this work is to delineate the characteristics of adolescent mothers and their newborn babies, aged 10-19 years, registered in the Information System on Live Births (SINASC) Itajubá/MG in 2009. The subject of this study was the certificate of live birth of these newborns. The instrument used for data collection was based on data that compose the certificate. We found the following results: ages ranged from 12 to 19 years, most of them between 18 and 19 years (63.58%); 79.48% were unmarried, 90.25% attended school for 4 to 11 years; 69.74% were housewives; 78.97% had no children, and 95.89% had no dead newborn. Regarding delivery method, 55.89% were vaginal birth; 90.25% with gestational age from 37 to 41 weeks; 63.07% of the mothers carried out 7 or more pre-birth consultations. 94.87% of the newborns were white, 51.79% female gender, 31.79% had birth weight between 3100-3599 g; 78.46% of the newborn had Apgar score 9 at first minute and 91.79% score 10 at 5 minutes. The results showed that the group needs specialized health service attention for preventing pregnancy and its complications.
- Publication
Enfermagem Brasil, 2011, Vol 10, Issue 2, p85
- ISSN
1678-2410
- Publication type
Journal Article