Validation of instruments to measure risk factors present in pregnant adolescents who attend the cien familias campus period january-august 2019

Abstract

Introduction: Teenage pregnancy represents a situation in which many important elements influence, such as physical, mental and social status. since, at this stage, none of these elements are developed, but rather they are in the full stage of evolution and development, a situation that has serious consequences for the mother Objective: to validate the quantitative and qualitative instruments that will allow us to determine the risk factors that occur in pregnant adolescents who attend the health center one hundred families from January to August 2019. Materials and methods: Mixed research: quantitative and qualitative. Field type, cross-sectional, evaluative type, non experimental design. The population is made up of 32 pregnant adolescents, aged 12 to 19 years. Results: The qualitative instrument showed an average of total reliability of its three categories of 90., which places it in the category of very reliable and in the quantitative instrument, an average reliability of 95.5 was obtained, which indicates that it is located in the very reliable category. Conclusion: The results show that the instruments are suitable, reliable and valid to measure the independent variable, and its correlation with the dependent variable, fulfilling the general hypothesis of this research.