Atención humanizada del parto de adolescentes: ¿Norma, deseo o realidad?

Abstract

Exploratory descriptive study that had by objective to analyze the attention to childbirth under the glance of pregnant adolescents, in the perspective of humanization. It was made in a hospital of the district of Fortaleza-CE, in a period of time between March/April of 2003 by interviews semi-structured applied to 30 adolescents. Some aspects of the services' dynamics were observed and informations judged as important were registered in a daily field. Most of the pregnant women does not know and/or confuses the category of the professionals that take care of them, negative aspect for the true social representation as well as their professional identity. Necessities in field related to emotional support and to receive informations were outstanding by the deponents and the practices that are useful and must be encouraged by occasion of the attention to the childbirth (category A of the World-wide Organization of Health - WHO) appeared as the not-systematic way and implemented sometimes.