Qualidade de Vida de Mulheres Submetidas ao Acompanhamento de Doulas.

Abstract

This work aims to identify, describe and analyze the perception of Doula s monitoring on Quality of Life of parturients users of a public maternity hospital in Goiânia. The material was organized into an introduction, two theoretical chapters, method, and finally two products drafted in the form of a scientific article. It ends by final considerations. The papers feature a quantitative and qualitative review on the subject. For both analyzes were assessed Quality of Life of 30 women, being 15 with the accompaniment of a Doula and 15 without such monitoring, with na age range between 18 and 40 years, and up to 24 hours postpartum. The quantitative evaluation (Article 1) was taken from the instrument WHOQOL Bref and has as its results that, the Doula s monitoring reduces the rate of cesarean sections and leads to more natural births. This study also concluded that Doula s monitoring generates bigger and better rates in the psychological dimension of the parturient. The qualitative assessment (Article 2) was taken from semi -structured interview and was analyzed by the method of Laurence Bardin. It was evaluated the perception of quality of life and labor with all the patients. The results understands that pregnant women, with and without the accompaniment of a Doula positively assessed the Quality of Life. However, the group of women without the accompaniment of a Doula diverged from the group with a Doula, due to understand that the absence of such assistance contributes negatively on their overall assessment of Quality of Life, but this result may have been minimized by the presence of distinct protective factors, possibly happening a process of compensation. This study understands that the presence of the Doula tends to increase the protection condition of pregnant women, bringing a positive perception of labor.