Hospital delivery--women's experience from the suburbs of Cuibá-MT

• Published in: Revista brasileira de enfermagem Vol. 59; no. 6; p. 740
• Main Authors: Teixeira, Neuma Zamariano Fanaia, Pereira, Wilza Rocha
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Brazil 01-11-2006
• Subjects: Brazil; Delivery, Obstetric - psychology; Female; Hospitalization; Humans; Interviews as Topic; Brazil
• ISSN: 0034-7167
• DOI: 10.1590/S0034-71672006000600004

The objective of this article was to analyze some cultural aspects of women who have experienced normal deliveries at hospitals of the National Health System. It is a qualitative research, and its theoretic-methodological reference was the Theory of Social Representation. For data collection ten women who had normal childbirth were interviewed. As a result, we could notice that many of the aspects that they had experienced were mostly associated to an institutional culture that revealed a treatment based on violence, and disrespect to the principles of the Birth Humanization Program created by the Brazilian Health Ministry. We concluded that there are still a lot of investments to be done to improve the quality of the assistance given to labor deliveries at the studied hospitals.