Suchergebnisse

Objective: To understand the perception of nurses of the Family Health Strategy about childcare, describing the actions taken during the nursing consultation. Methods: A qualitative study conducted in Imperatriz - MA, with 13 nurses through a semi-structured interview, which included: understanding of childcare, between March and May 2012. Results: Nurses perceive childcare with a focus on comprehensive evaluation and an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention. Reported difficulties in the implementation of childcare, lack of compliance of the mothers and overload assignments and contributions as actions of health education, improvements in indicators of health care and social demands. Conclusion: Nurses understand child care and systematic monitoring / periodic child, however, the actual work process should be revised to improvements in health care of the child and the community.

Object: verifying the influence of popular knowledge in the care of newborn, focusing on the promotion of child health. Methods: study with a qualitative approach, and was carried in public maternity hospital from Imperatriz-Maranhão, with 15 mothers of newborns. A questionnaire and semi-structured interview using thematic content analysis were used to collect data. Results: Three categories emerged: Knowledge used in the cleaning of the umbilical stump; Knowledge used to feed the newborn; Knowledge of practices used in daily care of the newborn; Knowledge used on diseases of the newborn. The reported knowledge and their influence on newborn care were prayers and blessings, herbal teas varied beliefs related to the care of umbilical stump, hiccups and sleep disorders. Conclusion: mothers do not rely heavily on the use of popular knowledge based practices, giving for credit to the guidelines given by the health professionals.