Percepção das mulheres sobre a violência no trabalho de parto e parto

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the occurrence of violence on the assistance to labor and delivery underwent by women of a city in the south of Minas Gerais. Qualitative research, descriptive, exploratory and cross-sectional developed with 25 women who gave birth in hospital service. The data were analyzed using the Bardin’s content proposal and two categories were identified: institutional violence during labor and delivery, and non-pharmacological actions in the humanization of assistance during labor and delivery. In the women’s speeches was possible to identify elements that characterize the violence in labor as physical, psychological, sexual, institutional and material. The violence is reported as inadequate reception and assists, the breach of basic rights of women, family and children, the use of practices considered inappropriate and harmful to labor and delivery, and the absence of pharmacological methods for pain relief. But most of them said they were not victims of violence. Humanization of assistance elements have been identified as reception, fulfillment of women’s rights and the use of non-pharmacological methods of pain relief. Thus, the violence reported by women was institutional and practiced by attendants, by doctors and nurses, by the infrastructure and is connected to the relations of power that put women in situation of inequality and vulnerability to those who should be caretakers. However, the training strategies of nursing professionals proposed by WHO and adhered by MS has not provided in these places a significant change on the labor experiences, prevailing a classic and interventional obstetrics.