Principais fatores relacionados à impossibilidade de amamentação em puérperas assistidas no ISEA.

Abstract

Breastfeeding is an experience experienced by the mother-baby binomial and brings numerous benefits to both. However, it is not always possible to breastfeed. Given the context, it is of fundamental importance that activities be developed to verify the causes of breastfeeding failure by the mothers. The objective of this research was to identify the factors that most frequently prevent breastfeeding among users of the isea milk bank. This is a descriptive study with a quantitative approach through the application of questionnaires. Ninety questionnaires were applied to isea in mothers who used the human milk bank (BLH) Dr. Virgílio brasileiro, from august 2017 to july 2018. The sample of our study was obtained through the survey of users of BLH users of the year. 2016, using the marotti formula with a confidence level of 95% and a margin of error of 10%, which resulted in the application of 90 questionnaires. An interdependence analysis between some variables was also performed by spearman correlation (non-parametric data) with a confidence interval of 95% and a significance level of 5%. The most frequent cause of breastfeeding prohibition was prematurity, around 64.4%; eighty-five percent of women reported negative feelings about the impossibility of breastfeeding, such as sadness. Only 19% of participants perform psychological counseling. The number of prenatal consultations was 5.9 consultations. Eighty percent of the mothers knew some benefit of breastfeeding for the baby, but none knew benefits for the woman. In our study there was a correlation between education and some variables, because the higher the education level, the higher the income and the higher the number of prenatal consultations; the higher the income, the smaller the number of children; the older you are, the greater the number of prenatal consultations. Through the data obtained in this study, it is expected that health agencies and educational entities are encouraged to promote actions that mitigate the factors that make breastfeeding impossible. In addition, there is expectation of greater support to the mental health of women who cannot breastfeed their children, thus reducing the consequences of not performing breastfeeding.