[A sociodemographic study of pregnant women and relation to pregnancy acceptance].

Abstract

Background: Control of normal pregnancy in the scope of primary Health care has been implemented recently; this is the reason why, many factors which have an influence on the use of this service, still remain unknown. We carried out this descriptive study in two Primary Health Care Centers of the VIII Health Area in Asturias, in order to approach the pregnant woman's profile from our primary health care centers, and to study the relation between pregnancy acceptance and sociodemographic characteristics.

Methods: The social histories of all women, who requested health care for their pregnancy during 1991, were collected; the most interesting sociodemographic variables and those ones directly related to pregnancy were obtained.

Results: Out of a total of 139 women, the mean age was 0.4 0.0006. There is a 16% of unmarried women. In relation with the pregnancy acceptance or desire, it was found that 31% of women did not desire it and this rejection was greater among unmarried women, younger than 20 years, (p = 0.0002) among those ones, whose contraceptive method had failed, (p = 0.0000) and among those ones, whose relations with their family were bad or not good enough (p = 0.0004).

Conclusions: A pregnant woman's profile, from our health centers, is obtained. It is necessary to develop health education programmes and family planning in the groups of women with higher number of not desired pregnancies, (young unmarried women).