Percepções e sentimentos de mulheres que sofreram abortamento espontâneo.

Abstract

Abortion is a public health problem, which may cause from physical and psychological complications to maternal death. During the abortion process, women may express feelings of guilt, sorrow, and self-punishment. Thus, there is the need that health professionals are capable of hearing them, paying attention to their complaints, in a way that gives them a qualified and humanized assistance. Thereby, this research has aimed to identify the perceptions and feelings of women who have had a miscarriage. Participated in the research 08 women who were admitted to the Maternity Hospital Dr. Deodato Cartaxo in the city of Cajazeiras, PB, from March to April, 2013. It was utilized as instrument for data collection a semi-structured interview guide, divided into two parts: characterization of the socioeconomic profile of the participants, and questions related to the experience of pregnancy confirmation and the miscarriage process. For the analysis of the testimonies it was utilized the Theme Content Analysis. The research followed the regulations of the ordinance 196/96 of the National Health Council. The data has shown that each participant attributes peculiar meanings to a determined experience, regarding the miscarriage these feelings vary according to the wish for pregnancy. For the women who had planned the pregnancy, the miscarriage situation brought them feelings of deep sorrow, pain for the loss of the baby and fear, whereas others who were not expecting the pregnancy felt indifferent with the situation lived. The nursing assistance was described as good by all of the participants; however, it was observed the need of improvement in some points of the attention, like the hearing and orientations. Therefore, it is the nurses and health professionals' job to develop an assistance which supplies the individual needs of each person, trying to observe them as a complex human being inserted in a particular social environment. It is considered that it is necessary to know the woman who experiences a miscarriage, developing means to intervene in the problem, providing bio-psychosocial well-being.