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Objective: to know the number of nue with the chosen method were: pre-
adolescent women who continued with ference for a long-term method (22.6%),
the chosen MAC at hospital discharge discomfort due to adverse effects (17%),
6 months after obstetric event, to esta- forgetting to take oral contraceptives
blish which was the method most cho- and expulsion of IUD (20.8%), for lack
sen by this population, to know the of inputs (3.8%) and others (15.1%).
causes that led to the discontinuity of Conclusions: from this research
the chosen method and to determine if we were able to establish that there is
there was an unwanted pregnancy after a strong acceptance of adolescents by
the obstetric event. LARCs: more than a third choose them
Materials and method: descriptive, at the time of obstetric discharge and
observational, retrospective and cross- of those who decided to change MAC,
sectional study. Data were extracted almost 23% specified that they wanted
from the Perinatal Computer System a long-lasting but reversible method .
and then extramural activity was ca- Among them, both the choice and the
rried out through telephone calls to co- adherence over time of the subdermal
llect data on adherence to contraceptive implant stood out. Thanks to the per-
methods. formance of extramurals, this work
Results: 41.9% of the sample (N = allowed us to reconnect with the wo-
148) chose a long-term method at dis- men to whom we had provided care a
charge (subdermal implant and intra- certain time ago. This fact enabled us
uterine device -DIU-). 51.4% continued not only to achieve the objectives set,
with the chosen method, 35.8% opted to but also to know first-hand the use of
change the method and 12.4% reported MAC in adolescents and all that their
having had a pregnancy. Of the women adherence implies, in order to improve
who accessed the subdermal implant, our own counseling on Sexual and Re-
97.2% continue with it and of those productive Health.
who accessed the IUD, 46.2% continue Keywords: adolescence-adherence-
to use it, in contrast to oral contracepti- LARC-unplanned pregnancy-birth con-
ves, whose adherence was 34.4%. Some trol implant.
of the reasons why they did not conti-

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