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Item Conocimientos sobresexualidad y su influencia en el embarazo de adolescentes. EU23. Latacunga. 2015-2016(Universidad Técnica de Ambato-Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud-Dirección de Posgrado, 2016-11-01) García Macías, Carmina Alexandra Dra.; Miranda Vázquez, Dra. Esp, Josefa MargaritaObjective: To identify the level of knowledge about sexuality and its influence in the adolescent pregnancy Methodology: descriptive, correlational, qualitative - quantitative field study. The universe was constituted by 80 adolescents 15 to 19 years of EU 23 Latacunga who were applied a survey; the data were processed by the SPSS program and entered into an Excel database; the analysis was carried out using the Pearson Chi-square with a level of significance of p<0.05. Results: 62.5% of adolescents have no knowledge about sexuality without gender predominance. 41.2% have little knowledge about contraception. They began their sexual life (71.2%) and did not use contraception at first intercourse (62.5%) as it was an unplanned meeting, 43.8%. Currently it has sex (68.8%) and do not use contraception (60.1%). They know the risk of pregnancy (72.5%).Religion influences the group that has not started sex life. 56.2% of parents are high school graduates, 25% are divorced. Communication, affection and support of parents were not related to knowledge about sexuality. 84.8% have as a source of information to the Internet. Conclusions: Adolescents who do not have knowledge about sexuality predominate; the behavior is the same for both sexes. There is no good knowledge about contraceptive methods, much of adolescents have not used in the first sexual relationship prevailing unplanned meeting, all nearly currently have sex, even though they know the risk of becoming pregnant prevail which are not protected.