Sociodemographic aspects of study about grandparents and their teenage daughters

Abstract

This article describes sociodemographic characteristics of pregnant adolescents attending a health service in the metropolitan region of Campinas-SP and their mothers or mothers-in- law. Descriptive cross-sectional study, with prospective data collection, carried out with 25 primiparous adolescents and 25 future grandmothers, in the last trimester of pregnancy granted oriented interviews with questions for the characterization of the interviewees. To investigate the demographic pattern of these adolescents and their mothers or mothers-in- law was important to develop appropriate interventions and public policies and targeted to the needs of this segment of the population.