Percepções dos professores sobre a gravidez na adolescência e evasão escolar no município de Sumé.

Abstract

This study aims to analyze teachers' perceptions about teenage pregnancy and school dropout in the city of Sumé. The specific objectives are: to identify the most common causes of pregnancy in adolescence; understand the teachers' perception of the importance of the family health team in school as a collaborator of the theme in question; to analyze the teachers' perception of the importance of the family in the approach to the subject in question and to understand in the view of the teachers the main consequences of school dropout due to teenage pregnancy. For that, semi-structured interviews were conducted with school educators in the city of Sumé-PB. The interviews were recorded, transcribed and analyzed from the thematic content analysis proposed by Bardin. It is therefore a qualitative study, which seeks to deepen the material investigated. This study showed that teachers understand that teenage pregnancy interferes with school dropouts as well as school and partnership with the health team need to be better prepared to be able to better orient the issue in question. The analysis of the interviews allowed to verify, also, in the view of the educators, that the lack of orientation of the parents towards their children interferes in the orientation within the school. Therefore, it is considered necessary to work together with the parents or guardians of these adolescents, school management and family health team, so that both can clarify these issues that involve teenage pregnancy. It is important to highlight the importance of themes such as the one investigated here, in order to consider the possibility of intervention programs to be implemented in schools, thus developing projects that cover all areas of knowledge.