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Fundamento: El afrontamiento de la maternidad en la adolescencia tiene serias implicaciones para la vida de la madre y su descendencia. Es un proceso en el que influyen diversos factores sociales, culturales, económicos y biológicos.Objetivo: describir la relación entre factores socioculturales y la decisión del tipo de parto en adolescentes ecuatorianas.Métodos: estudio descriptivo, de corte transversal. Se estudiaron 574 adolescentes de la ciudad de Machala, Ecuador, en el año 2016, aplicando una encuesta personal. Se estableció en este grupo de adolescentes la relación entre la decisión del tipo de parto con las variables edad, residencia, paridad, religión e instrucción; y se definió la asociación estadística derivada de estas relaciones.Resultados: la mayor preferencia fue hacia el parto transpelviano, con un 82,4 %. El 70,2 % de las féminas perteneció a áreas urbanas, y el 66,2 % de ellas no tenía partos previos. La mayoría de las jóvenes decidió tener un parto transpelviano, a pesar del razonamiento expuesto referente a diferentes factores socioculturales. Hubo relación estadística significativa entre el razonamiento y la decisión.Conclusión: los aspectos socioculturales abordados no influyen en la toma de la decisión del tipo de parto que desean las adolescentes ecuatorianas; más bien, su decisión puede orientar hacia problemas de otra índole. Solo las creencias religiosas y el razonamiento que sirvió de base a la elección, se manifestaron como factores influyentes.

Foundation: Confronting motherhood in adolescence has serious implications for the life of the mother and her descendant. It is a process influenced by various social, cultural, economic and biological factors.Objective: to describe the relationship between sociocultural factors and the decision of the type of delivery in Ecuadorian adolescents.Methods: cross- descriptive, study. A number of 574 adolescents were studied from the city of Machala, Ecuador, in 2016, applying a personal survey. The relationship between the decision of the type of delivery with the variables age, residence, parity, religion and instruction was established in this group of adolescents; and the statistical association derived from these relationships was defined.Results: the greater preference was towards trans-pelvic childbirth, with 82.4%. 70.2% of the adolescents belonged to urban areas, and 66.2% of them did not have previous births. The majority of them decided to have a trans-pelvic childbirth, despite the reasoning given regarding different sociocultural factors. There was a significant statistical relationship between the reasoning and the decision.Conclusion: the sociocultural aspects addressed do not influence the decision of the desired type of delivery; rather, their decision may lead to problems of another kind. Only religious beliefs and reasoning that served as the basis for the election were manifested as influential factors.

Introduction: The educational and assistance round in the educational-hospital institutions is complex and it is necessary to overcome different goals in the same activity. Objective: To provide a design from current pedagogical conceptions of educational-medical rounds at Ecuadorian university hospitals. Material and Methods: It carried out review of the related bibliography with the pedagogic processes of education in the work of medical formation. Were used the searchers PubMed, Cochrane Library and Google scholar to know, select, built, analyze and give a systematic view of the educational and assistance round in Ecuador, proposing structural and methodological bases, starting from the Cuban’s experience and the own Ecuadorian academic directives. Development: Educational-medical rounds as educational method of labor to obtain excellence must be more inclusive not using only the clinical method, but also clinical and epidemiological method shall be included and where integrated management objectives must be joined, using pedagogical constructional methods, holistic health-disease environment through heuristic participation strategies. Conclusion: The use of a proceeding model on a scientific basis properly structured and based on qualitative educational transformations that interrelate with medical caretaking and management issues where patients are evaluated integrally, provides a systemic approach process to this activity. Keywords: Medical education, teaching methods, education on the job, Ecuador, medical round, doctor, educational, caretaking.