Abstract

PALENCIA GUTIERREZ, Esperanza Marbella  and  CORONEL, Ana Karina. Chronic stress as a contributor to sexual health problems in adolescents in Ecuador. RCUISRAEL [online]. 2019, vol.6, n.2, pp.53-63.  Epub Aug 10, 2019. ISSN 2631-2786.  https://doi.org/10.35290/rcui.v6n2.2019.105.

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines the phenomenon of stress as the physiological reac- tions that together prepare the body for action. So stress would be an alarm, a stimulus that leads to action, a response necessary for survival, a response that in most cases can be balanced or un- balanced with responses affecting a certain population. The objective of this article is to determine the importance of identifying opportunely the factors that can negatively affect the sexual and re- productive health of the adolescent for this evil of the century called chronic stress. For this, several bibliographical sources were consulted, which allowed a critical analysis of the state of the subject. It is concluded that a holistic and humanized approach to adolescents is urgently needed because they are socially exposed to an exaggerated reception of external and internal stimuli as a result of different phenomena that generate chronic stress, altering their hormonal, neuronal and physiological processing that is immature. Affecting negatively their social interaction, their sexual and reproductive health which are evidenced in figures of suicides, teenage pregnancies, cases of drug addiction and increasing sexual abuse.

Keywords : Stress; adolescents; sexual health; reproductive..

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