Representações sociais de adolescentes escolares sobre prevenção a gravidez precoce

Abstract

Early pregnancy has great consequences in the personal and societal lives of adolescents, being a widely seen reality, since there are a large number of pregnant teenagers, even with several options of contraceptive methods that can be used. Therefore, we realized that initiatives need to be taken as a way of alertness and prevention to a healthy adolescence without certain risks, although they are not experiencing a pregnancy or they have not started the sexual activity yet. Thus, analyzing the social representations of adolescent students is a way of understanding the conceptions already formulated by the students in relation to the theme. In this way, we chose the school as a stage to work with this theme because there is a direct contact with these adolescents, believing that it may also be through educators that guidelines emerge, being a support to the family in the teachings related to pregnancy and prevention. Then, we conducted the research with students of the 7th grade of Middle School, at a public school in Ponta Grossa/PR, where we worked through questionnaires and exchange of ideas in order to raise information and explanations originated by everyday life, in the course of interpersonal communication among adolescents, relatives, friends, among others, about the subject. So that, we could formulate a didactic material, where the means of prevention were inserted, so the students would remedy their doubts and eliminate the possible taboos from the social group in which they are inserted.