Descriptive study during two months in 1993 to determine information and attitudes about pregnancy and contraceptives in adolescents girls in the post partum period. Eighty adolescents were surveyed with a closed questionaire 68% had not planned her pregnancy, only 41% were happy and the rest were  indifferent or rejected such pregnancy. Five girls bad tried to interrupt their pregnancy. Eighty-two percent had prenatal control only 23% at Maria Auxiliadora Hospital. Other 23% had had information about contraceptives. Following information post partum, 70% decided to use contraception, mainly IUD. Me conclude it is necessary to reinforce educational activities on family planning during prenatal and postpartum controls.

Objective: To identify factors that influence contraceptive use in adolescent mothers. Design: Study of 6O adolescent women with prenatal control and delivery at María Auxiliadora Hospital and who did not return to puerperal control (cases) and 23 adolescents attended at the same hospital who returned for puerperal control (controls). All had house call visits for survey. Results: Contraceptive use was 56% among cases and 95,6% among controls, with statistically significant difference. Approval by husband and girlfriends was determinant in contraceptive use, the mothers’s opinion was less significant. False believes were present in both groups, but did not limit contraceptive use. There was preference for copper T use in both groups. Patients that did not return to the hospital and were using contraceptive methods at the time of the survey received contraceptives at the health establi...