This study aims at understanding the experience of adolescent mothers in taking care of her child in the first week after birth by domiciliary accompaniment. Six adolescents participated, accompanied between February and October 2007. Data collection was accomplished through semi structured interviews and participant observation. Culture Care Diversity in Nursing Practice was adopted as theoretical reference. The results had disclosed that the experience of caretaking is lived deeply of diverse ways. For some of the adolescents care was developed with assurance; others were frightened and insecure and did not immediately take on. The mothers of the adolescents served as support, showing how to develop care, thus gradually inserting the daughters into practice, making them integrally assume the attention.
Objective: To identify and describe popular practices of teenage mothers caring for their children during the first six month after birth. Methods: A qualitative approach was used with six teenage mothers from the city of Cambé, PR. Data were collected through semistructured interviews from February to April 2007. Interviews were conducted in the participants' home in four different times (one week, one month, four months, and six months after the birth). Results: Findings suggested that teenage mothers use popular practices that were part of their family and community culture when caring for their children. These popular practices included cross breast-feeding, teas, syrups, and blessing's plays to treat adverse events, and popular beliefs regarding the umbilical stump, hiccups, and sleeping pattern. Conclusion: Health professionals must be aware of practices and beliefs of teenage mothers in order to plan quality care to the mother-child binomial. Keywords: Infant care; Adolescent; Mother-child relations; Medicine, traditional RESUMOObjetivo: Identificar e descrever os cuidados populares adotados por mães adolescentes na assitência aos filhos nos seis primeiros meses de vida. Métodos: Pesquisa com abordagem qualitativa desenvolvida com seis mães adolescentes residentes em Cambé -PR. Os dados foram coletados no período de fevereiro a abril de 2007, por meio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, realizadas no domicílio em quatro momentos distintos:uma semana, um, quatro e seis meses após o nascimento. Resultados: As mães adolescentes revelaram reproduzir em seu cotidiano de cuidar várias práticas populares que fazem parte da cultura local e familiar, tais como amamentação cruzada, utilização de benzimentos, xaropes, chás e orações para tratar intercorrências, além de algumas crendices relacionadas com o coto umbilical, soluços e alteração no sono do bebê. Conclusão: Os profissionais de saúde precisam conhecer as crenças e práticas das mães adolescentes para então planejar, da melhor forma possível, a assistência a ser prestada ao binômio mãe-filho. Descritores: Cuidado do lactente; Adolescente; Relações mãe-filho; Medicina tradicional RESUMEN Objetivo: Identificar y describir los cuidados populares adoptados por madres adolescentes en la asistencia a los hijos en los seis primeros meses de vida. Métodos: Investigación con abordaje cualitativo desarrollado con seis madres adolescentes residentes en Cambé -PR. Los datos fueron recolectados en el período de febrero a abril del 2007, por medio de entrevistas semi-estructuradas, realizadas en el domicilio en cuatro momentos distintos: una semana, uno, cuatro y seis meses después del nacimiento. Resultados: Las madres adolescentes revelaron reproducir en su cotidiano de cuidar varias prácticas populares que hacen parte de la cultura local y familiar, tales como amamantamiento cruzado, utilización de bendiciones, jarabes, infusiones y oraciones para tratar ocurrencias, además de algunas creencias relacionadas con el muñón umbilical, hipos y alteraciones en el sueño...
The art of caring is arousing the conscience of being a nurse to a redirection of his/her role as a caring being who becomes involved with other beings. This study aims to identify the understanding that nurses have about caretaking and its practical applicability according to the theorists Leonardo Boff and Vera Regina Waldow. A descriptive and qualitative study, carried out with nurses from Basic Healthcare Units, where 94.1% are women, 58.8% are between 41-50 years old, the majority (76.5%) of them are specialists and 52.9% graduated in the 1980s. This situation produced three categories: the Assistance category – "do something for somebody", the Feeling category – "care with humanistic values", and the Education category – "promotion of the quality of life". It was observed that that nurses spoke mainly in terms of “doing to” or “doing for” someone, rather than "doing with" someone. A great difficulty and certain confusion were observed, when speaking about care.
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