PARTICIPATION OF NURSING IN THE PROCESS OF SEXUAL EDUCATION TO PREVENT PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Abstract

Teenage pregnancy is considered a major public health problem faced in today's society, since it entails a series of complications for the pregnant woman and the fetus. In this context, nurses play a fundamental role, as they bring with them actions aimed at sexual and reproductive education  for  adolescents and young people at this stage, in order to minimize these statistics. This study ­­­­aims to: investigate in the literature the importance of professionais nurses and their actions in the process of sex education as a means of preventing early pregnancy. This is a integrative study of bibliographic review, in which data were obtained from periodical sources, nursing journals, theses and dissertations collected in databases such as: Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO). Expected results: the collaboration of the nursing professional is expected to adhere to functional awareness strategies in order to promote a reduction in cases of teenage pregnancy, where mass media should be used to disseminate lectures in schools, promoting family planning and sex education classes to be held in a school environment, and individual professional monitoring offered free of charge specifically for the target audience.