The pregnancy and academic performance in rural Ecuador

Abstract

Early pregnancy is a public and social health problem, the adolescent mother's health is affected, resulting in negative effects that decrease the chances of completing their studies with an excellent academic performance or providing for school dropout, which makes it difficult to obtain better living conditions, so the objective of this study was to determine the factors that negatively influence the low performance of pregnant students at the Pueblo Nuevo Educational Unit, in the Province of Manabí, in the process the descriptive model, addressing the respective definitions of the variables and describing the factors that influence this problem, the historical model was carried out based on bibliographic and secondary sources, acquiring information from key informants, the quantitative approach was very useful, for how much 100 high school students were sampled, including teenage mothers and 5 teachers from the educational unit. The research results provided that the main factors for a student to lower their academic performance are a lack of emotional support from their families, socioeconomic factors and the uneducated use of contraceptives. It is important to distinguish that the main cause for these students to drop out of their studies is their family's lack of motivation.