Percepção de gestantes acerca do pré-natal realizado em Unidades Básicas de Saúde do município de Sousa - PB.

Abstract

In Brasil, the enlargement in the prenatal covering is evidenced, though It is necessary the investigation into the quality of the rendered attention. That research had as objectives: to analyze the pregnant women's perception concerning to the attendance rendered during the prenatal that had taken place in BHU of the municipal district of Sousa-PB, to know the influence exercised by the socioeconomic level in the adhesion / permanence in the prenatal consultations and to verify the importance attributed by the pregnant women to the prenatal that had taken place in BHU of the municipal district of Sousa-PB. It is an exploratory research, with quantitative and qualitative approach. Thirty pregnant who had their prenatal exams done in three Basic Health Unities in the municipal district of Sousa-PB, in May of 2011, participated of this research. The data were collected through open and individualized interview, with structured itinerary, as well as information contained in the pregnant woman's card and in the pregnant woman's individual record and postnatal. Tables were used for the characterization of the participants' socioeconomic and obstetric data and pictures for the analysis of the qualitative data through the Collective Subject's Speech (CSS), standing out the central ideas and their respective speeches, commented in agreement with the convenient literature about the subject. The results point women with favorable age for gestation, who lived together with fixed companion, most was of the home, who survived with a minimum wage and lived with a considerable number of people. Concerning to the obstetric data, 76,7% began the prenatal in the 1st quarter of the year, 33,3% were in the first gestation. It was verified that the pregnant women attributed the importance of the prenatal firstly to their children's health, later to them; the expressed dissatisfaction in the speech of some, for flaws in the attendance and that the pregnant women, in majority, is that they don't go accompanied during the consultations, endangering the rendered attention's capacity of resolution. It was observed that the pregnant women's expectations and the importance attributed by them in relation to the prenatal are based in the concept of preventive and healing health, and that the socioeconomic aspects influenced this perception