Jhon Fredy Bello Cordero*, Cesar Camilo Leon Triana, Juan Pablo Gualdron Moncada, Arleth Sandry Hernandez Alvarez, Maria Cristina Suarez Gomez, Adam Andrew Ramos Howell, Carol Juliana Parra Navarro and Andrea Carolina Montana Alarcon
Introduction: In Colombia, teenage pregnancy has become a public health problem in recent decades due to its tendency to increase in the general population of adolescents. In the country there have been few studies focused on identifying the level of knowledge, use and determinants for the choice of contraceptive methods focused on the prevention of teenage pregnancy.
Materials and Methods: An analytical cross-sectional study was carried out through a questionnaire that was applied to 200 adolescents from a population in a municipality in Colombia.
Results: It was found that oral contraceptives is the method that adolescents know the most and use the most, followed by injections. Avoiding pregnancies, protecting against STIs, and regulating menstrual periods are the most important reasons to use birth control. While the most important reasons for not choosing the pill had to remember its use every day. In the case of the implant, the fear and pain of placing and removing it was the most important reason.
Conclusions: Although effectiveness and long-term use can be very important advantages when choosing a contraceptive method, the fear of pain and insertion make long-lasting methods such as implantation and intrauterine devices less attractive to adolescents.
Published Date: 2022-06-18; Received Date: 2022-05-21
