Escolha e adequação do pré-natal em uma maternidade filantrópica na cidade de São Paulo / Choice and adequacy of prenatal care in a philanthropic maternity hospital in São Paulo

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

This study investigates the choice and adequacy of prenatal care of pregnant women who attended the outpatient department of the Amparo Maternal (PN-AM), a social and philanthropic maternity in São Paulo, Brazil. The objectives were to identify the reasons for the choice of the PN-AM to monitoring pregnancy; to describe the prenatal care, according to the interval between appointments, the frequency of regular appointments and the ending of pregnancy monitoring; to identify the reason for the lack in appointments and the ending of pregnancy monitoring; to verify the adequacy of prenatal care; to relate socio demographic, and obstetric data and place of prenatal beginning with the adequacy of prenatal care. It is a cross-sectional study with prospective data collection of 301 medical records of pregnant women from February to October 2009. After the descriptive analysis it was used the chi-square to study associations between variables, the level of significance was 0.05. The results showed: 58.5% went directly to the PN-AM for the start of monitoring of pregnancy and 41.5% spontaneously transferred from another facility, most basic health unit (82.4%); 73.0% on the advice of family, friends or acquaintances, 21.6% for previous experience, 75.1% initiated until 120 days of pregnancy, an average of 8.3 consultations, 71.0% attended all the scheduled appointments; 72.4% had appropriate interval between visits, 29.9% had at least one missing, 35.4% missed for personal reasons and 81.4% of pregnancies reached term; 87.4% adherence to the service, the prenatal care was adequate for 66.8% of pregnant women according to the Kessner index, modified by Takeda. Age, work, steady partner, place of residence, companion in the consultations, site of initiation of prenatal care had statistically significant when associated with adequacy of prenatal care for pregnant women according to number of six visits, onset of prenatal care until 120 days Kessner index, modified by Takeda. Paid work, place of residence, place of early prenatal care, parity, number of pregnancy and children were associated with the adequacy according to the frequency and interval between visits to the PN-AM. The findings suggest health services for the establishment of strategies that enable the early entry of pregnant women in prenatal care, and ensuring availability of specialists and, especially, to promote continuity of monitoring, so that women do not need to seek care away from their residences.

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quality indicators indicadores de qualidade em assistência à saúde acesso aos serviços de saúde assistência pré-natal prenatal care qualidade da assistência à saúde quality of health care health services accessibility health care

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