Celebrando a vida: construção de uma cartilha para promoção da saúde da gestante / Celebrating life: constructing a booklet for the health promotion of pregnant women

AUTOR(ES)

Luciana Magnoni Reberte

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The promotion of health among pregnant women, which can be accomplished by furnishing information about the gestational process, physical and emotional changes specific to pregnancy, labor, delivery and postpartum, is essential to prenatal care. An educational booklet with trustworthy and significant advice could represent an important contribution to prenatal awareness training. The general objective of this study, therefore, was to produce such a booklet: systematizing its content, selecting illustrations, organizing its composition, verifying information with experts, and testing the adequacy of its language and illustrations in collaboration with the target audience. The content systematization was based on the suggestions raised by a group of expectant mothers prior to the beginning of the present project. The content of the booklet was developed through a review of scientific literature. The composition of the booklet, i.e., the formatting of illustrations, color, design, organizational structure and the sequence of information, was accomplished with the help of communications professionals. A preliminary version of the booklet was submitted to a process of validation by both experts and pregnant women. One group of eight professionals, including obstetricians, nurses midwives, a health promotional nurse, a physical education professor and nursing auxiliaries, evaluated the information, language, illustrations, and the general format of the booklet, giving helpful suggestions. The revised version was delivered to nine expectant mothers participating in prenatal care at a public health service center, who were asked to read through the booklet and point out any difficult words, phrases, expressions or illustrations and give suggestions for substitutes. This step continued until no new objections to content could be found, and this final version was reformatted and printed. The process of developing this booklet by means of a collective, participatory dialog, a process widely recommended for health promotion strategies, was both constructive and enriching, and the authors suggest its use in similar enterprises

ASSUNTO(S)

comunicação health promotion promoção da saúde information gravidez informação pregnancy communication

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