Characterization of teenage pregnancy in a riverside community of Brazilian Amazon

Teenage pregnancy represents a serious public health issue, both nationally and internationally,being a much debated subject in literature. The objective of this study is to present the characteristics of teenage pregnancy in the community of Curuçambaba, Bujaru-PA. It is a descriptive quantitativestudy, in which we applied the exploratory data analysis technique, used in statistics as an approach analyzing data sets.Among the main results, we observed that most of the women had cohabiting partners (46.87%), that most of them had not finish elementary school (44.13%) and that their family income was less than a minimum wage (86.67 %). Regarding the characteristics of teenage pregnancy, 52.78% did not have parents' orientation on sexuality, 93.33% used a condom and, among these,68.75% used it eventually. During pregnancy, 88.89% had prenatal care, 75.00% had normal delivery, 69.44% of them in a public hospital.Most had an unintended pregnancy, 61.11% became pregnant through carelessness, 58.33% stopped studying and 68.57% did not change their outlook on life. We concluded that it is necessary for health teams to carry out health education and contraceptive counseling for adolescents in general, in order to explain the correct and incorrect aspects of contraceptive methods, to avoid unintended pregnancies.