Determination of Body Image Perception in Adolescent Pregnants

Objective: the research has been done as a descriptive in order to the perception of body image in adolescent pregnants who applies for antenatal checks to obstetrics and gynecology policlinic in dr. sami ulus obstetric and gynecology, pediatrics training and research hospital. method: sample of the research constitutes of 165 volunteer adolescent pregnants, literate, 19 years old and under, married, having no psychological problem, open to verbal communication who has applied for obstetrics and gynecology policlinic to antenatal checks in june and december of 2013. as a device of collecting data; introductory information form which is prepared by researchers has been used to determine the sociodemographic and obstetric characteristics, and body cathexis scale has been used to determine perception of body image in adolescent pregnants. the obtained datas has been evaluated by using percentage, mean, standart deviation, student’s t test, kruskal-wallis, oneway anova, mann-whitney u and tukey tests. results: it has been found that, 44.2% of adolescent pregnants are in 16-18 years olds. 31.5% of adolescent pregnants in the research are in the first trimestre, 31.5% of them are in the second trimestre. the average score of body cathexis scale of adolescent pregnants who are in the research has been found 146.3±23.9. conclusions: social assurance attitude of adolescent pregnants, the situation of getting monthly salary and husband’s age have been found to effect body image score (p<0.05). body image of adolescent pregnants whose pregnancy is planned has been found more positive than the other pregnants whose pregnancy is not planned and it is stated that there has been statistical meaningful difference between them.