Nivel de conocimiento y autoeficacia del uso de anticonceptivos en adolescentes de 14 a 19 años en la Ciudad de Puebla en el 2024

Knowledge is the human ability to relate a subject that knows to a subject or object to be known, self-efficacy measures one's ability to carry out an action or behavior, applied to adolescents, stage of low experience in decision-making in the use of contraceptive methods. To determine the degree of self-efficacy and knowledge of contraceptive use in adolescents from 14 to 19 years of age in Puebla 2023. The method used was a quantitative, descriptive, correlational, cross-sectional design in a sample of 179 high school students between 14 and 19 years of age. Two questionnaires were used, “Survey of the Level of Knowledge of Contraceptive Methods” and Levinson's “Self-Efficacy Scale for the Use of Contraceptive Methods” to measure self-efficacy. The results obtained were that 50.3% of the participants were female, the predominant age was between 14 and 17 years with 91.5%, 76.5% began their active sexual life between 14 and 16 years. The 97.7% had a medium and low level of knowledge about contraceptive methods, 34.6% of the adolescents surveyed had a medium level of self-efficacy in the use of contraceptives and 63.8% had a high level and there was no correlation or statistical significance (r= .074, p= .161). In conclusion, no articles were found directly related to this study.