OBJETIVO: Analisar a prevalência de sintomas depressivos e ansiosos vivenciados por mulheres durante os quatro primeiros meses de pós-parto. MÉTODO: Estudo descritivo, com abordagem quantitativa. Realizou-se a coleta de dados com 86 mulheres na Zona Oeste de São Paulo. Foram aplicados três instrumen...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to explore the challenges for primary healthcare professionals in caring for women with postpartum depression, in order to learn which tools are used for the identification of these women, as well as ways of working to restore their health. This qualitative descriptive ...
Psychiatric Reform is an issue which is discussed internationally. Its greatest challenge is to rethink means for caring people suffering from psychic disorders. In view of this, this study set out to anaylze and discuss the process of residential life for people discharged from a psychiatric hospital. T...
Aim: To understand the experiences of pregnant women in a group and the role of the group in pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. Method: This was an exploratory descriptive study in which a qualitative approach was used. The instruments for data collection were interviews and observation. Five women pa...
The present qualitative study searched for the understanding of women's perception on the participation of a coach, chosen by them, during the labor process. The research study was carried out between August and November 2009 at a teaching maternity in the municipality of Curitiba, Parana State, Brazil. ...
This study set out to understand the experiences and perceptions of women from the practices of episiotomy during labor. This is a qualitative descriptive approach, performed in a school hospital in São Paulo, which data were collected through interviews with the participation of 35 women, who experienc...
Puerperium is a period of great changes in women's lives, in physiological, psychological and socio-cultural terms. Female sexuality is a broad topic that should be explored vis-à-vis the singularity of woman's experiences which themselves vary at different moments in time. This article is part of the p...
This descriptive study aimed to characterize the graduates of the Inter-unit Doctoral Program in Nursing of the School of Nursing of the University of São Paulo, who defended their theses in the period 1998-2008, in relation to the location they developed their Masters and their pre and post-doctoral em...
The aim of this study was to determine how women deal with sexuality and bodily changes during the puerperium. A qualitative methodology was used and a semi-structured interview with a leading question script was chosen as the research tool. Six puerperas from the west area of São Paulo (Brazil) took pa...
This article seeks to add to the understanding of changes women in the puerperium experience after giving birth for the first time. This is a qualitative study in which six women whose children were born by natural birth, without untoward events in a maternity hospital accredited to the Brazilian Public ...
