Planejamento familiar: Conhecendo as vivências e satisfações de casais.

Abstract

To help in the decision of the couple and to reduce maternal and child mortality, family planning has become one of the primary actions of the Health System services, it offers the primordial population information for the choice and effective use of contraceptive methods and conceptive ways that best suited the health of the couple. This work aims to meet the practices of family planning by the couple, team approach of the Family Health Strategy (FHS) and satisfaction of the couple. This is an exploratory, descriptive and qualitative approach nature. The population consisted of 20 couples who underwent family planning in two ESF, the city of Pombal - Paraíba. The research took place between November 2013 and April 2014. The same followed the principles of Resolution 466/12 of the National Health Council, used to semi-structured interview and the information collected was organized from the technique of content analysis and analyzed according to the theoretical framework. At first he was made sociodemographic characteristics of participants (gender, age, education level, marital status and occupation), followed by four categories, the first being directed to the attention of the couple on family planning, the second category includes the realization family planning in the ESF, the third deals with the ways to approach the FHS staff about family planning and the fourth category covers the satisfaction of the couple in the realization of family planning in the ESF. The results of the survey revealed that women tended to initiate family planning on their own, and only after the first child sought health services to adequately prevent , as men despite declaring themselves participating in this process, they did not know inform how much time and how their partners began planning. The unveiling of this study points to some changes that are occurring, although in a more gradual slowly, where men are now being urged to participate actively in family planning, since the changes arising from globalization , under the division of duties and sharing rights. It is considered that couples require monitoring family planning holistically, not just individual, and we all share responsibility for such assistance to implement their skills and expertise for this purpose.