Percepção de adolescentes escolares sobre transformações corporais, gravidez e caderneta de saúde do adolescente

Abstract

Introduction: Adolescence is a stage of life that requires care for the many body changes. This research appears from the need to carry out more studies about the knowledge of adolescent about body changes, pregnancy and the presence of the health booklet. Objective: To describe how the adolescents perceive the changing body, the risk and consequences of pregnancy at this age, guided by the adolescents health booklet of. Methods: Descriptive study of ten adolescents who are students of a public school. The meeting was followed in three stages: diagnosis evaluation, educational intervention using the adolescence booklet of references and the final evaluation interview. Results: The adolescents did not know the booklet, but showed interest in knowing its content. Conclusions: There is not applicability of the health notebook as resulted from not using the proprieties recommended by the health politics for adolescents.