Influencia de la adolescencia y su entorno en la adherencia al control prenatal e impacto sobre la prematuridad, bajo peso al nacer y mortalidad neonatal

SUMMARY Background: Maternal morbidity and neonatal mortality is increased in adolescents and pregnant women without prenatal care or poor adherence. Objective: To identify the influence of adolescence and its surroundings on adherence to prenatal care and its impact on prematurity and/or low birth weight and neonatal mortality. Methods: Case-control study, conducted with 570 pregnant adolescents and 2093 ≥20 years of age whose infants were hospitalized in a neonatal unit. Associations were determined by Odds Ratio with confidence interval of 95%, using the multivariate logistic regression analysis. To build the model with Classification and Regression Trees variables in the bivariate had had a p<0.05 was used. Results: Maternal age 13-19 was found associated with poor adherence to prenatal care, after adjusting for schooling <11