Abstract
ABSTRACT Objective: to understand the perception of adolescents living in Quilombola community regarding unplanned pregnancy and its repercussions on community life. Methodology: descriptive, qualitative research using the creative and sensitive method through the dynamics of creativity and sensitivity: Shortening Distances and Body Knowledge. Participants were adolescents living in a Quilombola community in the rural area of the municipality of São Mateus, Espírito Santo (Brazil). The meetings took place at weekends, on three Sundays in December 2018. The results were organized by the Iramuteq® software and the images and narratives were developed by the content analysis method. Results: nine adolescents, catholic, single, with a family income of less than one minimum wage, living in their own home and living on subsistence agriculture participated. They have access to the public health service, which they use when they get sick. The software demonstrated that the words "pregnant" and "work" are central to their narratives. The experiences of adolescents were expressed by the following categories: Repercussion of pregnancy for adolescents in the Quilombola community; Rights of pregnant women in the community; and Behavior of families and adolescents towards pregnancy. Conclusion: the understanding of unplanned pregnancy, taking into account racial ethnic aspects, makes it possible to develop health education strategies that respect the cultural and social aspects of this community, so that the actions can be successful, which is a great challenge for the professionals involved.
Highlights
For the World Health Organization[1], adolescence is the period of life that lasts between 10 and 19 years of age, with its subdivisions between minors (10 to 14 years) and older (15 to 19 years)
Regarding access to the health service, all used the public health service, which is 12 km away, which is only used when they get sick, likely due to the difficulty of transport, because the community is in rural area and is reached by a dirt road, becoming even more difficult due to bad conditions such as with potholes, erosions and quagmires in the rainy season
The dynamics “Body knowledge” was applied to know the experiences of adolescents about unplanned pregnancy and the repercussions on community life that were expressed by artistic production, and the corpus of analysis was the images and narratives of the young participants
Summary
For the World Health Organization[1], adolescence is the period of life that lasts between 10 and 19 years of age, with its subdivisions between minors (10 to 14 years) and older (15 to 19 years) It is a phase of life in which changes occur ranging from bodily changes to the need to adapt to the organization of psychological and environmental structures, imposed by the socio-economic-cultural environment in which one lives[1]. In this sense, thinking about adolescent health implies reflecting on the various ways in which they live within their reality. It leads to a movement of (re-)thinking about health and health education practices of this public which has its own specificities and is going through one of the most difficult stages, which is the entry into adulthood[2].
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