Levantamento dos saberes e práticas populares no município de Cuité; Paraíba: cuidados maternos de zero a dois anos.

Abstract

Culture includes cumulated knowledge, coming from past generations, that are placed in practice before some situation. As regard to health and welfare of individuals, popular culture has dictated ways in which people of different regions of the world search deal with the welfare of body, mind and soul. To register, study and explain the different knowledge and way of how to care the health conditions and disease, the Theory of Cultural Care of Madeleine Leininger it has been fundamental to this type of search. In this perspective, this work to identify cultural values of maternal care related to health of their sought 0-2 years old in the county of Cuité , State of Paraiba, Brazil, reporting to the knowledge these science and practices through plants medicinal. It was a exploratory-descriptive study, which had during six months of data collection, between March and August 2014. The participants were chosen intentionally, constituting key informants selected through the method "snowball". Well, participated in the study 70 cuiteenses mothers. Data were collected by conducting participant observation, formal conversations and semi-structured interviews having as instrument a questionnaire which included open and closed questions involving the identification and socio demographic characteristics of participants, well as related to the central theme of the study. The content analysis of the interviews enabled the development of nuclei of meaning titled as: "Situations of raising their children" and "child health through medicinal plants." The first show the routine care of the mother and child relationship, the sympathies and beliefs practiced with the umbilical intercourse baby, as well as sympathies, beliefs and prayers regarding the baby's health. The second recorded using 18 species of medicinal plants for the care of the health of their children, which are encompassed in 17 species and 11 botanical families. You can identify that beliefs, sympathies and medicinal plants are values are passed on generation to generation focused on ways to deal the most distinct forms of adversity health and welfare existing in the mother-child relationship. Faith is also a fundamental aspect for dealing with problems.