Participação de adolescentes em ações educativas sobre saúde sexual e contracepção

Objective: To describe the teenager participation in educational interventions on health and sexual contraception. Methods: A descriptive study, with assumptions of action research, developed with 30 adolescents of 8th and 9th grade, in Middle School in Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil. Data collection was carried out collectively on wheels talks and educational workshops on pregnancy and contraception in adolescence in three meetings, in the months of june and november of 2015. The information was analyzed abstracting the themes and core senses, which grouped in category: Prevention of teenage pregnancy; Knowledge about the use of contraceptive methods. Results: Bring the meanings of the messages adolescents who expressed knowledge, doubts and curiosities generated in talks and workshops on prevention of teen pregnancy. The highlights were the main contraceptive methods used by adolescents as the male condom and morning-after pill, but had many doubts and questions about the proper use. Conclusion: The creative and participatory way to address the issue favored clarification, reduction concerns and self-reflection on the prevention of pregnancy and autonomy of school at the choice of contraceptives.