• Diana Patricia Vanegas-Coveña, Tesifón Parrón-Carreño, Cayetano Aranda-Torres, and Raquel Alarcón-Rodríguez.
• Universidad de Cuenca, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Cuenca, Ecuador.
• Gac Med Mex. 2019 Jan 1; 155 (4): 357-362.

IntroductionMost pregnancies in adolescents and young adults are unwanted and many are the consequence of inconsistent contraception use.ObjectiveTo analyze the risk factors that may influence on female adolescents with unwanted pregnancies.MethodCross-sectional, descriptive study in Ecuadorian female medical students, where the 2013 National Sexual and Reproductive Health Survey, the family APGAR scale, and the Graffar-Méndez Castellanos socio-economic scale were used.ResultsThere was statistically significant difference in the age of active sexual life initiation between those who became pregnant (18.11 ± 1.45) and those who did not (19.22 ± 2.28). Average age at pregnancy was 20.41 ± 2.18; 59.3 % of those who had a pregnancy and 32% of those without pregnancy did not use protection in their first intercourse. Pregnancy was more common in city residents (100%), Catholic females (85.2%), who belonged to middle-high (55.6%) and middle-high socioeconomic strata (29.6%) and to families with moderate dysfunction (40.7%).ConclusionsA significant percentage of adolescents in our study had an unwanted pregnancy at an early age despite being young undergraduate medical students, coming from moderately dysfunctional families and belonging to a middle-high socioeconomic status.Copyright: © 2019 Permanyer.

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