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CASAGRANDE, Castorina Honorato Vidal; MELO, Maria Inês Amaro Assunção de  e  SANCHES, Mário Antônio. Relationship between formal education and pregnancy planning. Acta Educ. [online]. 2024, vol.46, n.1, e61333.  Epub 01-Jul-2024. ISSN 2178-5201.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v46i1.61333.

The article addresses the relationship between education and family planning during the first child's pregnancy to identify the educational impact on family planning. The research is exploratory-descriptive, with a quantitative, cross-sectional approach. From 2014 to 2019, data was collected using a validated research instrument, Parenting Planning in the Context of Bioethics; the data is presented in four tables. In total, 1608 questionnaires related to the first child’s pregnancy were answered. The research was conducted in the State of Paraná, in religious, educational, and social institutions. As for the results, those who had completed college presented a percentage of 63.5% of planning their first child’s pregnancy, while those who had not studied presented 25.2%. What can be noticed, and this is the highlight of the research, is that the family planning indices are higher when the participants have completed a study cycle: 4th grade, high school, and college, in relation to pregnancies that occurred during school periods. Thus, it is concluded that formal education significantly impacts family planning, especially since pregnancies that occurred while people were in the study phase had lower rates of family planning than pregnancies that occurred when people had already completed their studies.

Palavras-chave : family; sex education; family planning.

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