Care pathways: strategies to facilitate access and care for teenage mothers

Abstract

To explore strategies to facilitate access and care for teenage mothers, delving into solutions that aim to overcome the obstacles that permeate this crucial phase of life. This is an integrative literature review, carried out in December 2023 in the MEDLINE, Web of Science and SCOPUS databases, without limitations regarding language and date of publication. The descriptors indexed in DeCS and MeSH were used: “Adolescent Mothers”, “Effective Access to Health Services” and Primary Health Care combined using the Boolean operator “and”. The results obtained were exported to the Mendeley® software and, later, to the Rayyan® application. Six studies were eligible and the results were categorized into three categories: educational and awareness interventions, improving accessibility to health services and psychosocial support approaches. Effective strategies to promote access to and care appropriate to the needs of adolescent mothers may vary, but generally involve the implementation of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health programs, accessible education about prenatal and postnatal care, availability of specialized health services for adolescents, in addition to emotional and psychosocial support.