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Women's care during home visits for the "First Comprehensive Healthcare Week"
Laura Lucinda Bezerra Silva1,2, Katia Virginia Oliveira Feliciano2, Lorena Novaes Ferraz Pacheco Oliveira1
1Faculdade Pernambucana de Saúde (FPS), Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil.
Objective:
To evaluate women's care during home visits for the "First Comprehensive Care Week".
Method:
A cross-sectional study was carried out in a specialized service in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. A total of 190 women who had recently given birth enrolled at the Family Health Strategy answered the questionnaire between September and December 2013 to verify the association between home visits and the investigated variables. This association was verified using the chi-square test with a confidence level of 95%.
Results:
Most of the women were 29 years old or under (68.5%), with high gestational risk (59.5%), and primiparous (46.9%). On the first week after hospital discharge, 42.1% received a home visit. An association was detected between local pre-natal care and a home visit on the first week (p = 0.049). The participation of the nurses during the visits was associated with better performance for breast and abdomen examinations (p = 0.000) and investigations on emotional conditions (p = 0.029).
Conclusions:
These findings stress the need to establish a routine home visit plan to solve the issues of women with high-risk pregnancies after labour.
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