Existential phenomenology as a possibility to understand pregnancy experiences in teenagers

Maria Salete Bessa Jorge1, Getúlio Vasconcelos Fiúza, Maria Veraci Oliveira Queiroz

  • 1Nursing Faculty, Ceará State University. masabejo@hotmail.com

The research had as objective to comprehend the sense of pregnancy to the teenager pregnant trying to get the way of being and having be pregnant. It was done four in-deep interviews, using the core question: How do you feel being pregnant? The speeches and their meanings were analysed by the light of Heidegger's Phenomenology. In getting closer to the phenomena we get the way impersonal and not authentic of teenagers, the co-presence in relation to the boyfriend and family. They shown, still the dread by the child and by his health, worrying with the future that around the care, due they deem themselves not to have the ability to this, which causes the anguish and anxiety of daily life, in the new way of being. The comprehension of this phenomena is fundamental in the care to the teenager pregnant to a full and humanized action.

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