Family planning and teenage pregnancy

Teen pregnancy is a recurrent fact in Brazil which produces consequences because of the rough change in the young mothers’ lives. The main theme of this study is family planning and teen pregnancy. The research was realized at a Family Health Unit in Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, with 10 women, aged between 15 and 24 years old, who became mothers when they were between 12 and 17 years old. They answered a semi-structured questionnaire with open and close questions. The main objective of this study was to understand why adolescents do not take part in the Family Planning program offered by the Family Health Unit in order to avoid an unplanned pregnancy. It is a field research, with a qualitative-quantitative approach, of descriptive-exploratory character based on the objectives. It was possible to conclude that, although the contraceptive methods and Family Planning program are accessible to adolescents in the FHU, most have shown no interest in participating in the program and do not use or contraceptive methods or use then incorrectly.