This paper reports on a study of maternal sensitivity in 22 primiparous women and their infants from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A semistructured interview was conducted about sociodemographic risk, as and videotaped home observations to assess maternal sensitivity, and its relation with warmth, verbal and physical engagement, and camera awareness. A K-means cluster analysis was performed to examine patterns of risk in relation to maternal sensitivity. Compared to the 15 mothers with higher sensitivity scores, the seven mothers with lower sensitivity scores were characterized by lower educational levels, lower income, lower age, living in a slum, unplanned and unwanted pregnancies, and later onset of prenatal care. Whether father was resident did not appear to distinguish between the lower and higher sensitivity groups. The pattern of social-contextual risk for Brazilian mothers showing less sensitive caregiving to their infants provide a clear direction for future research in this cultural context.
Este estudio tuvo como objetivo evaluar las representaciones sociales del cáncer de mama de mujeres en el estado de Río de Janeiro, Brasil, que padecieron la enfermedad; se evaluó la enfermedad, su etiología y tratamiento. Se realizó una investigación de campo, con entrevistas cualitativas con diez mujeres que tenían cáncer de mama, edad entre 45 y 70 años y que se sometieron a una mastectomía. Para la evaluación de los datos, se utilizó el método de análisis de contenido con la obtención de nueve categorías de análisis: definición y etiología del cáncer, descubrimiento de la enfermedad, la pérdida y el papel de los senos, tratamiento, relación con la pareja/vida sexual, reacción de la pareja/familia frente al diagnóstico, la rabia, facilitador del afrontamiento y cambios. Los resultados del estudio enfatizaron que el cáncer es percibido por las mujeres como un riesgo y una amenaza a la vida y que la extirpación de la mama afecta principalmente a la identidad del cuerpo femenino. El cáncer se asocia con las representaciones sociales negativas y su enfermedad provoca muchos cambios significativos en las vidas de estas mujeres
This article reports on a study of maternal sensitivity in 22 primiparous women and their infants from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Two semi-structured interviews were conducted, as well as videotaped naturalistic home observations of the dyads. A K-means cluster analysis was performed to examine patterns of risk in relation to maternal sensitivity. The results reveal that compared to the 15 mothers with higher sensitivity scores, the 7 mothers with lower sensitivity scores were characterized by lower educational levels, lower income, lower age, living in a slum, unplanned and unwanted pregnancies, and later onset of prenatal care. Whether father was resident did not appear to distinguish between the lower and higher sensitivity groups. The article concludes that the patterns of social-contextual risk for Brazilian mothers showing less sensitive caregiving to their infants provide a clear direction for future research in this cultural context.
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