The pregnancy rate among Romanian adolescents: an eleven years (2009-–2020) observational, retrospective study from a single center

Abstract

Objectives: It has been recently documented that Romania has the highest prevalence of adolescent pregnancy in Europe. Material and methods:Therefore, the present study aims to offer a conclusive view of the current situation by assessing a series of parameters in the last 11 years. Results:Throughout the present manuscript, we showed that 1788 pregnancies occurred in the last 11 years in just one center from the northeastern region of Romania. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (p < 0.05) performed suggests that gestational age does not follow a normal distribution; an interval during which 899 (50.27\%) male and 889 (49.72\%) female babies were born. There were a total of 1383 (86.00\%) deliveries at full-term and 225 (13.99\%) were under 37 weeks. Of 1788 teenage girls, 1467 (82.04\%) were from the rural area, whereas 321 (17.95\%) from the urban area. Conclusions: Fortunately, one common feature that we observed was that starting from 2017 there was a significant reduction within the last 2 studied parameters, the situation being much more fluctuating until 2014.