The relationship between teenage pregnancy and school desertion

Autor: Molina S, Marta, Ferrada N, Cristina, Pérez V, Ruth, Cid S, Luis, Casanueva E, Víctor, García C, Apolinaria
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: Revista médica de Chile, Volume: 132, Issue: 1, Pages: 65-70, Published: JAN 2004
Popis: In Chile, the prevalence of teenage pregnancy is 17%. Aim: To assess relationship between adolescent pregnancy and school desertion. Patients and methods: At the Hospital Guillermo Grant Benavente's Departament of Obstetrics and Gynecology, in Concepción, Chile, 2001 a comparative, cross sectional and correlational study was conducted. The study group were pregnant adolescents who deserted from school system, divided in two subgroups: 86 adolescents who deserted before pregnancy and 130 who deserted during pregnancy. Results: Twenty percent of teenagers that deserted from school before pregnancy belonged to a sublevel of poverty, compared with 5% of those who deserted during pregnancy. Flunk was frequent in both but higher in girls that deserted before pregnancy (46.5 and 36.9% respectively, (p
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