Sobrecarga emocional/estresse de mães que cuidam de filhos com microcefalia.

Abstract

From 2015 it was noted the increase in the number of cases of infections relateds to Zika Virus (ZIKV) in Brasil and in another countries at South America and Caribe. This disease was initially dificult to be diagnosticated because the similarities with the signals and symptoms of dengue. Were observed pruritus, cutaneous rash, arthralgia, non-infected pinkeye and periferic edema. Associated it was observed the increase in numbers of microcephaly at the same period and a possible relation of infection by ZIKV and microcephaly began to be investigated by the follow-up of children with microcephaly for the evaluation of them development. These children need special care and because of it many times the carers have emotional overload and stress, special the mothers. Describe the emotional overload/stress at mothers of children with microcephaly witch are pacientes of the follow-up servisse at an Universitary Hospital in Paraíba; the specific objectives are to describe the sociodemographic profile of the mothers and describe the impact factors of the mothers who have children with microcephaly at the follow-up service of an Universitary Hospital in Paraíba. it is a descreptive transversal study, developed at the pediatric follow-up service of the Hospital Universitário Lauro Wanderley (HULW) with mothers of children with microcephaly by ZIKV. It was used the Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI) that was validated to Brazil by Scazufca in 2002 and a sociodemographic questionary. These instruments were aplied by the participant researcher during the wait period for the service. By the analisis of the colected data it was observed that mothers who partcipated of the research have low emotional overload, but were noted some specific stress points, like the selfcare and coordination of children’s care and other day-by-day activities. Another relevant stress point was the financial conditions’s impact at the care quality. In this way, it is noted the necessity of others studies in the same area to develop strategies to protect these woman of this emotional overload. This is essencial for an appropriat care for the children.