Resumo OBJETIVO: Avaliar a adequação do processo de assistência pré-natal segundo os parâmetros do Programa de Humanização do Pré-natal e Nascimento (PHPN), acrescido dos procedimentos previstos pela Rede Cegonha, no Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) de uma microrregião do Espírito Santo, Brasil. MÉTODOS: Foi realizado um estudo transversal, em 2012-2013, por meio de entrevistas e de análise do Cartão da Gestante e do prontuário do recém-nascido, com 742 puérperas em 7 maternidades da região escolhida para a pesquisa. As informações foram coletadas, processadas e submetidas aos testes do χ 2 e exato de Fisher para testar a diferença de proporção entre os critérios adotados pelo PHPN mais a Rede Cegonha e o local de moradia, renda familiar mensal e modalidade de cobertura do serviço pré-natal. Foi considerado um nível de significância de 5%. RESULTADOS: Os parâmetros que apresentaram as menores taxas de adequação foram os testes rápidos e os exames de repetição, com frequências em torno de 10 e 30%, respectivamente, além das atividades educativas (57,9%) e da imunização antitetânica (58,7%). Já os parâmetros manejo do risco (92,6%) e exame de glicemia de jejum (91,3%) apresentaram os melhores resultados. Foi encontrada adequação de 7,4% para o PHPN, de 0,4% para a Rede Cegonha, no que diz respeito aos parâmetros da gravidez de risco habitual, e de 0 para os de alto risco. Houve diferença estatisticamente significante entre as puérperas segundo local de moradia para realização de sorologia para sífilis (VDRL), teste anti-HIV e repetição de glicemia de jejum, e a renda familiar mensal influenciou a realização dos exames tipagem sanguínea/fator Rh, VDRL, hematócrito e teste anti-HIV. CONCLUSÃO: A assistência pré-natal no SUS mostrou-se inadequada, de acordo com os procedimentos previstos pelo PHPN e Rede Cegonha na microrregião de um estado do Sudeste brasileiro, principalmente para as mulheres de menor renda, usuárias do PACS e residentes na zona rural. Abstract PURPOSE:To evaluate the adequacy of the process of prenatal care according to the parameters of the Program for the Humanization of Prenatal Care (PHPN) and of the procedures provided by the Stork Network of Unified Health System (SUS) in the microregion of Espirito Santo state, Brazil. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2012-2013 by interviewing and analyzing the records of 742 women during the postpartum period and of their newborns in 7 hospitals in the region chosen for the research. The information was collected, processed and analyzed by the χ 2 and Fisher's exact test to determine the difference in proportion between the criteria adopted by the PHPN and the Stork Network and the place of residence, family income and type of coverage of prenatal service. The level of significance was set at 5%. RESULTS: The parameters showing the lowest adequacy rate were quick tests and repeated exams, with frequencies around 10 and 30%, respectively, in addition to educational activities (57.9%) and tetanus immunization (58.7%). In contrast, risk managemen...

This study aimed to investigate the existence and magnitude of the association between advanced maternal age (AMA) and occurrence of placenta praevia (PP) and placental abruption (PA) among nulliparous and multiparous women, by a systematic review and meta-analysis. We searched articles published between January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2015, in any language, in the following databases: PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and LILACS. Women were grouped into two age categories: up to 34 years old and 35 years or older. The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale was used to evaluate the methodological quality of the studies. A meta-analysis was conducted for the PP and PA outcomes, using a meta-regression model to find possible covariates associated with heterogeneity among the studies and Egger's test to assess publication bias. The protocol of this systematic review was registered in the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO) system (CRD42016045594). Twenty-three studies met the criteria and were included in the meta-analysis. For both outcomes, an increase in age increased the magnitude of association strength, and PP (OR = 3.16, 95%CI: 2.79-3.57) was more strongly associated with AMA than PA (OR = 1.44, 95%CI: 1.35-1.54). For parity, there was no difference between nulliparous and multiparous women considered older for the PP and PA outcomes. Our review provided very low-quality evidence for both outcomes, since it encompasses observational studies with high statistical heterogeneity, diversity of populations, no control of confounding factors in several cases, and publication bias. However, the confidence intervals were small and there is a dose-response gradient, as well as a large magnitude of effect for PP.

Resumo: O objetivo deste artigo é explorar aspectos da gravidez indesejada e da tentativa de aborto revelados numa avaliação da assistência pré-natal. Realizou-se uma pesquisa quanti-qualitativa, com 1035 puérperas da Região Metropolitana da Grande Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brasil, internadas para o parto em maternidades de referência do Sistema Único de Saúde. No inquérito populacional, coletaram-se dados sociodemográficos, bem como sobre sentimentos e expectativas diante da gravidez. Na etapa qualitativa, realizaram-se entrevistas semiestruturadas. Os resultados evidenciaram a tentativa de aborto inseguro em consequência da gravidez indesejada. Foram reveladas vulnerabilidades entre as pesquisadas, que demonstraram conhecimento popular sobre riscos do aborto para o bebê. Compreende-se que as mulheres se arriscam por meio do aborto induzido, revelando conflitos morais que persistem na sociedade brasileira, especialmente acerca do direito à vida e do direito à autonomia da mulher.

Objectives: to analyze the prenatal care of pregnant teenagers interviewed in the post-partum period in Brazilian maternity hospitals, according to economic status and skin color. Methods: data were obtained from the Birth in Brazil study, a national hospital-based survey in 2011 and 2012. Information was obtained from interviews with the postpartum women and from data collected from their prenatal cards. Multivariate logistic regression was used to verify whether maternal and prenatal care characteristics were associated with ina-dequate prenatal care. Results: a total of 3,317 teenage mothers were interviewed in the postpartum period, 84.4% of whom had received inadequate prenatal care, with worse results for lower-income, lower-schooling, and multiparous teens. In the same way, it became evident the higher proportion of black teenagers and those from economic classes D/E among those who failed to receive routine laboratory tests, who received little orientation on the pregnancy, labor, and childbirth, and who were forced to go from one maternity hospital to another before being admitted to give birth. Conclusions: strategies targeted to the most vulnerable pregnant teenagers should be implemented in order to achieve greater equality in teenagers’ prenatal care, seeking to assure easier access, earlier initiation of care, and greater case-resolution capacity

The anogenital prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and the use of cervico-vaginal self-collected vs. clinician-collected samples were evaluated for the diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected and HIV-uninfected women in the Tapajós region, Amazon, Brazil. We recruited 153 women for a cross-sectional study (112 HIV-uninfected and 41 HIV-infected) who sought health services. Anal and cervical scrapings and cervico-vaginal self-collection samples were collected. Real-time polymerase chain reaction methods were used for Chlamydia trachomatis , Neisseria gonorrhoeae , Trichomonas vaginalis and Mycoplasma genitalium . A syphilis test was also performed. Risk factors for STIs were identified by multivariate analysis. The overall prevalence of STIs was 30.4% (34/112) in HIV-uninfected women and 24.4% (10/41) in HIV-infected women. Anogenital Chlamydia trachomatis infection was the most prevalent in both groups of women (20.5% vs 19.5%). There was significant agreement for each STI between self-collected and clinician-collected samples: 91.7%, kappa 0.67, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.49–0.85 for Chlamydia trachomatis ; 99.2%, kappa 0.85, 95% CI 0.57–1.00 for Neisseria gonorrhoeae ; 97.7%, kappa 0.39, 95% CI -0.16–0.94 for Trichomonas vaginalis ; and 94.7%, kappa 0.51, 95% CI 0.20–0.82 for Mycoplasma genitalium . Women with human papillomavirus had coinfection or multiple infections with other STIs. Risk factors for STIs were being ≤ 25 years old, being employed or a student, reporting a history of STI and having a positive HPV test. A high prevalence of STIs in women in the Tapajós region was found. Cervico-vaginal self-collection is a useful tool for STI screening and can be used in prevention control programs in low-resource settings, such as in northern Brazil.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo avaliar a associação entre gravidez na adolescência e prematuridade. Os dados são provenientes da pesquisa Nascer no Brasil, inquérito nacional composto por 23.894 puérperas e seus recém-nascidos. As informações foram obtidas por meio de entrevista com a puérpera durante a internação hospitalar. Um método de pareamento foi estabelecido, baseado nos escores de propensão, para lidar com diferenças entre os grupos em razão de um desenho não experimental, caso do estudo Nascer no Brasil. O desfecho do estudo foi a idade gestacional, sendo considerados todos os partos prematuros (idade gestacional < 37 semanas) e a termo (idade gestacional entre 37 e 41 semanas e 6 dias). O estudo evidenciou disparidades sociais, econômicas e assistenciais maternas entre as mulheres segundo a faixa etária. A maior proporção de puérperas adolescentes se concentrou nas regiões menos desenvolvidas do país, Norte e Nordeste, e nas classes econômicas menos favorecidas (D/E). Depois de equiparadas quanto às características socioeconômicas e assistenciais, foram observadas maiores chances de prematuridade espontânea nas adolescentes precoces, tanto em comparação às adolescentes tardias (OR = 1,49; IC95%: 1,07-2,06), quanto às adultas jovens (OR = 2,38; IC95%: 1,82-3,12). A prematuridade permanece em pauta no campo da saúde materno-infantil, sendo preocupante a associação com a gestação na adolescência encontrada neste trabalho, destacando-se que quanto mais jovem a gestante, maior a chance de parto prematuro espontâneo.

Objectives: describing maternal characteristics, risk behavior, obstetric data, prenatal care and childbirth in adolescent mothers in Brazil (age groups: 12-16 years and 17-19 years). Methods: hospital-based cross-sectional study substantiated by Nascer no Brasil”, (Born in Brazil) data. The study encompassed puerperal adolescent mothers from all regions in the country, and their newborns. Chi-square test was used to compare adolescents in the 12-16 years old age group and those in the 17-19 years old age group. Results: pregnant women in the 12-16 years old age group mostly lived in the Northeast of Brazil (p=0.014); most of them did not have a partner (p<0.001), unplanned pregnancy (p<0.001), they had inadequate schooling for their age (p=0.033), had less than six prenatal consultations (p=0.021), were subjected to episiotomy (p=0.042) and accounted for the largest number of premature babies (p=0.014). Conclusions: puerperal women in the 12-16 years old age group presented vulnerability in their socioeconomic conditions, inadequate assistance at the prenatal and childbirth care, as well as their babies showed neonatal complications that pointed towards these adolescent mothers’ need of multidisciplinary care.

The early neonatal period accounts for approximately half of the deaths of young children under one year of age, and the neonatal near miss can recognize factors causing this high number of deaths. Thus, the aim of this study is to determine whether advanced maternal age increases the chance of neonatal near miss, in addition is to identify which factors are associated with the neonatal near miss, stratified by parity. Data are from the 2011-2012 Birth in Brazil study, which used a national population-based sample of 15,092 newborns of women between 20-29 and 35 years of age or more (advanced maternal age). Multiple logistic regression was performed to test the association between neonatal near miss and prenatal and childbirth variables, pre-gestational diseases, obstetric history and socioeconomic characteristics, stratified by parity. Advanced maternal age was to be statistically associated with neonatal near miss in nulliparous (OR = 1.62; 95%CI: 1.05-2.50) and multiparous (OR = 1.51; 95%CI: 1.20-1.91) when compared to women 20-29 years of age. For nulliparous women, the main variables statistically associated with neonatal near miss were multiple gestation (OR = 8.91) and hypertensive disease (OR = 2.57), whereas forceps-assisted vaginal delivery (OR = 7.19) and multiple gestation (OR = 4.47) were the variables associated for multiparous women. Neonatal near miss has been shown to be connected with access to health services for childbirth, gestational complications and maternal characteristics, mainly advanced maternal age. Therefore, to properly monitor and classify maternal gestational risk, to control gestational complications during prenatal care, and to correctly refer these women to childbirth care should be priority strategies for healthcare services.