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. 2022 Oct;54 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):102494.
doi: 10.1016/j.aprim.2022.102494.

[Prevention of mental health disorders in primary care: Pregnancy in adolescence]

[Article in Spanish]
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[Prevention of mental health disorders in primary care: Pregnancy in adolescence]

[Article in Spanish]
Francisco Buitrago Ramírez et al. Aten Primaria. 2022 Oct.

Abstract

Adolescent pregnancy is generally an unwanted pregnancy, a situation that involves significant biological, psychological and social overloads, with repercussions on the health of the mother and the child. But the psychosocially important fact is that an unwanted pregnancy in its entirety gives rise to the birth of an ambivalently wanted child, a high-risk child. Those born in Spain in 2020 to women under 20 years of age were 8,305, which corresponds to 1.97% of all births. This review presents measures and recommendations for the protection and prevention of the mental health of the mother and child when pregnancy takes place in adolescence.

El embarazo en la adolescencia es generalmente un embarazo no deseado, una situación que conlleva importantes sobrecargas biológicas, psicológicas y sociales con repercusiones en la salud de la madre y el hijo. Pero el dato psicosocialmente más importante es que un embarazo no deseado en todo su desarrollo da lugar al nacimiento de un niño ambivalentemente deseado, un niño de alto riesgo. Los nacidos en España en 2020 de mujeres menores de 20 años de edad fueron 8.305, lo que corresponde al 1,97% del total de nacimientos. En esta revisión se presentan medidas y recomendaciones para la protección y prevención de la salud mental de la madre y el niño cuando el embarazo tiene lugar en la adolescencia.

Keywords: Adolescent pregnancy; Atención primaria; Embarazo en la adolescencia; Intervenciones psicosociales; Mental health; Prevención; Prevention; Primary care; Psychosocial interventions; Salud mental.

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