ANDRADE, R. R. M.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4462858760085034; ANDRADE, Rayane Rândla Matias de.
Resumo:
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.