Suportes sociais no cuidado cultural com a regulação da fecundidade

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

The cultural comprehension of being in the female body, where take place the fertility regulation actions, leads the society to attribute exclusively to her the responsibility of gathering knowledge on contraceptive methods and of use them. This inequality in the social relations between men and women highlights specific social behaviors that are based on hegemonic templates that produce suffering, illness and death. In this context, the mobilization of social networks around people act as an overcome mechanism, when the woman can use family ties and supportive affective ties of friendly people to deal with problems concerning fetility regulation. This is an ethnonursing research based on the Leiningers Diversity and Universality of Cultural Care Theory and on the Social Networks Theory. Its goal was to investigate social networks used by women in the cultural care with fertility regulation. Data collection was get from women engaged in Family Planning Program of a singular Primary Health Care Service of Sobral, a town located in the Northeastern Region of Brazil, from March to November of 2005, and it was guided by the Leiningers observation-participation-reflection model. The interview was used as triangulation method, and its data was gathered from seven women, elected as key informants of our research to validate the analysis. Data analysis was made combining Leiningers and Social Networks theoretical frameworks, so that we could organize data to identify social support considering a spectrum of social dimensions and social factors concerning life style of people. The analytic themes allow to group data, highlighting the cultural care made by people. The main result of research we have was the comprehension that the professional knowledge is an important material/instrumental support, due the spectrum of variety of methods, techniques and procedures (surgical or not) that exists in Family Planning Program. Another evidence of that importance was the informational resources, and the human/emotional character of sophistication and safety of professional practices. The supportive actions of lay people in the subjects life world were also emphasized. The main recommendations were: to proceed an appropriate reorientation of health professional practices to develop them as informational support, as a form to enhance them in a humanistic perspective; to invest in an spectrum of a variety of oral contraceptive in the Primary Health Care Services, giving to women options of choice concerning that material support, the most demanded by users; to implement supportive women groups, where women will care with one another, offering emotional support in the fertility regulation field. Those recommendations demand an specific work of Health Education Professionals focusing the Personal Development and under the Holistic Paradigm of Health Care.

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saude coletiva saÚde pÚblica - dissertaÇÕes contracepÇÃo - dissertaÇÕes fecundidade - dissertaÇÕes controle da natalidade - dissertaÇÕes

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