Women's autonomy in the process of labour and childbirth: integrative literature review
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Thamiza Laureany da Rosa Dos Reis1, Stela Maris de Mello Padoin1, Thayla Rafaella Pasa Toebe2
1Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Departamento de Enfermagem, Programa de Pós-graduação em Enfermagem. Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
Objective:
To identify the available evidence in scientific literature on healthcare practices that interfere with the autonomy of Brazilian women in the labour and delivery process.
Method:
The search for papers was conducted in the databases LILACS, Scopus and PubMed, between 1996 and 2015, according to a guiding question and exclusion criteria, resulting in the selection of 22 papers to compose the analytic body.
Results:
The main practices that favoured the exercise of women's autonomy were out-of-hospital care practices; care practices of support and comfort; and educational care practices. By contrast, the practices that limited autonomy were authoritarian care practices; standardised or routine care practices; care practices that intensify the painful sensation of childbirth; and impersonal and cold care practice.
Conclusion:
There was an alarming contrast between the daily healthcare routine and ministerial recommendations.
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