Necessidades de saúde de mulheres em processo de amamentação / Health needs of women in breastfeeding process

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

Considering the benefits of breastfeeding, widely recognized, and the low rates of exclusive breastfeeding in Brazil and that the woman is the element who decides the course of breastfeeding, this study sought to survey the health needs from the testimony of women about their experience of breastfeeding, therefore on the vision of the health professional, the assistance generally is based on the attendance of the demands that come to the health service. The aims of this study were: to identify the health needs of women seen at a Basic Health Unit in the city of São Paulo, in their breastfeeding process; to relate the identified health needs with the social, economic, demographic and obstetric profile of these women; to relate the identified health needs with the breastfeeding situation of these women. Study participants were 238 women who underwent semi-structured interviews about their experience of breastfeeding. The data had been organized according to proposal of the Collective Subject Discourse, extracting the expression-keys and the central ideas of the depositions, which had been analyzed in a qualitative and quantitative methodological approach. The health needs of the women for the maintenance of the breastfeeding classified by the taxonomy of Matsumoto had been: Necessity of good conditions of life (to have good alimentation; to work or to study; to have time for itself; to have sleep and adequate rest; to have good mental health; to have good conditions to breastfeed the baby - to have good milk supply, to have instrumental and/or affective support of the family, to have environment adjusted at home to breastfeed); Necessity to have access to all the health technologies that contribute to improve and to draw out the life (to deal with the breastfeeding problems, to have access to the services of health for follow-up after discharge); Necessity to have bond with a professional or health team; Necessity of self-care and autonomy and in the choice in the way of walking the life (to have orientation about breastfeeding, in the prenatal appointments and in the maternity ward; to receive instrumental and/or affective support from the professional; to feel self-confident with regarding to breastfeeding). The necessities that had presented statistically significant association with the breastfeeding situation had been: to have good alimentation, to have good milk supply, to have bond with a professional or health team and to feel self-confident with regarding to breastfeeding. The social, economic and demographic variables that had presented a statistically significant association with some health needs had been the education level, familiar income and age of the child. Regarding obstetric variables, a statistically significant association was observed with place of prenatal, the place of birth, type of delivery, parity, premature child and childs weight at birth. With the results of this study it is intended to collaborate to improve the effectiveness of the protection, promotion and support to breastfeeding, promoting the attendance of the health needs of the lactating women during the breastfeeding process

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saúde da mulher woman´s health needs assessment maternal-child nursing breast feeding enfermagem materno-infantil determinação das necessidades de saúde aleitamento materno

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