Pregnant adolescents in a transition phase: a nursing focus on caring-researching

Abstract

The objective of this study is to understand the change women go through in their daily life, considering the transition during adolescence and maternity. It aims at understanding the existential meaning of the pregnant adolescent, facing transition, as a located phenomenon, in the simultaneity of life events. Data were collected through the discourse of eight pregnant adolescents who answered a phenomenological interview guided by the question: "What is it to be a pregnant adolescent undergoing transition, as a located phenomenon, in the simultaneity of life events?" The comprehensive analysis of the reports was based on the Heideggerian hermeneutics. It showed that pregnant adolescent experience this transitional moment with fear, fragility and ambiguous feelings of pleasure and suffering, according to the meanings attributed to their experiences.