Pregnancy in adolescence and sports abandonment. a look from its prevention (Original)

Abstract

Sports practice produces numerous health benefits, however, there are numerous studies that show that there is an important phenomenon of abandonment generated by pregnancy in adolescent athletes. In this sense, the present research aims to design pregnancy prevention actions in adolescent athletes from the Pedro Batista Fonseca EIDE to avoid sports abandonment. In the realization of the objective, a diagnosis is made about the problem that is investigated through interviews and questionnaires with coaches, athletes, managers, and methodologists, who work and advise the sports that are practiced by adolescent athletes. The results show that since 2018 - 2020 there has been a considerable number of desertions or abandonment, greatly influencing the pregnancy of athletes in the adolescent stage. Based on this problem, preventive actions are proposed by virtue of avoiding sports abandonment, which are submitted to the criteria of specialists to assess their feasibility of application.