[Contraception among adolescents]

Adolescence is a period of which the contraception is difficult, because of lower compliance of the teenagers to this methods. The authors were observed the contraceptive uses in 792 pregnant adolescent girls, 264 of which with abortions (group A) and 528 teen-age mothers (group B). Only 12.88% of all patients have used birth control methods, usually with low and middle effects. We founded only 15 patients (1.89%) practiced hormonal contraception and 1 case (0.13%) with Intrauterine devise. The condoms for men was the most popular and useful in teenagers (4.23%), and Natural family planning methods were practiced from 52 (6.57%) patients. There was the statistically differences between adolescent girls included in group A and B about their contraceptive behaviors and live standards (p < 0.01). By the kind of contraceptive methods, there was a high differences in the teenagers with a hormonal uses (p < 0.05).