Educação em saúde em grupo multiprofissional no pré-natal sob a perspectiva de gestantes e profissionais

Abstract

Introduction: Despite the health education be a widely used practice in groups by health professionals, still noted a low membership in multiprofiessional groups for pregnant women in prenatal care. Objective: Describe and understand the practice of health education in prenatal multidisciplinary groups of pregnant women and of the professionals who do this work. Method: We opted for the qualitative research to study eighteen pregnant women who performed the prenatal care at a health centre in Brasília-Federal District. Thirteen of them didn’t joined the multiprofessional group and six joined; A questionnaire was applied to the 18 pregnant women of prenatal care and five of them also responded to a semi-structured interview. Six health professionals who are part of the multidisciplinary team of prenatal also participated in the research and responded to an interview and the instrument of completion of sentences. Content analysis was performed to treat the data. Results: Were constructed 4 categories to the pregnant women: “If she wants to spend a good experience with the child; I would, if there was time; I would do a larger force to participate; Will bring more comfort, more information, more health, too”. Some factors were cited by pregnant women as determinants for accession: personal interest; clarification of questions; adequacy of medical consultations with the group; dates and times compatible; stimulating participation of an escort; referencing the location of childbirth; disclosure by health team, invitation and distributing flyers or posters. In the professional analyses, 7 categories were built: “Empower pregnant women by something that it themselves; Motherhood is an important moment for the woman and for the health service; Another activity that she has to do; Most of them have a problem with the partner; You must to have this flexibility, you have to be open to dialogue, it has to enhance the knowledge of the people; How to measure that huh?; I think it's a professional fight”. Conclusion: Measure the membership of the group is one of the important points for your verification effectiveness, however, is trying to advance the establishment of a group: prior mapping to the deployment of service; and training constitution multiprofessional team; awareness of other teams and professionals present on the site that will be held the multiprofessional group valuation group; as an action necessary and an integral part of women's public policy presents in Rede Cegonha program.