Gravidez precoce na cidade de Maputo: um estudo de percepcões sociais da gravidez na adolescência no hospital geral de Mavalane

Abstract

This study analyzes the perceptions and meanings constructed by adolescents about their pregnancy. The study focused on the analysis of pregnant adolescents enrolled in the prenatal program, at the Hospital Geral de Mavalane, in the city of Maputo. The method deductive hypothetical and monographic were the most privileged in this study, aided through indirect observation and semi-structured interviews. The phenomenological theory of Alfred Schutz was used as a perspective for analyzing the phenomenon under study. The study found that, for pregnant teenagers, there are different types of meanings and perceptions built on the different reactions that family, friends, partners and school produce about teenage pregnancy. It was also found that, the greater or lesser magnitude of the repercussions is fundamentally due to the conditions of social insertion. of the families of the pregnant adolescent and her partner, and the context in which these different conditions of rejection and social acceptance of pregnancy occur. Thus, we understand that, for the understanding of early pregnancy, it is important to locate the pregnant teenager in the social context in which it finds itself, insofar as, meanings that adolescents have about their sexual behavior and pregnancy is influenced by a set of values ​​and norms that it internalizes within the networks of sociability such as family, partner, group of friends and school. Therefore, the way these networks perceive the adolescent's pregnancy determines the way of acting, thinking and feeling of the adolescent about her pregnancy since the values ​​they produce make the teenager is aware of the attitude that she must develop in her day-to-day around the her pregnancy. In this context, it can be said that the family, the adolescents' partners, group of friends and the school have a very essential and peculiar influence in relation to the meanings and perceptions that the teenager has about early pregnancy