OVERWEIGHT IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF PREGNANT WOMEN ASSISTED IN THE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE OF A MUNICIPALITY OF THE NORTH FLUMINENSE REGION
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https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2018.33112Keywords:
Pregnant Woman. Overweight. Body Image. Qualitative Research.Abstract
This study aims to investigate overweight during pregnancy from the perspective of adult women attending Primary Health Care (PHC) in the city of Macaé-RJ, Brazil. It is a research of qualitative approach and descriptive type, based on the theoretical interpretative perspective. We conducted in depth interviews, whose data were submitted to the analysis of thematic content adapted from Bardin. A total of 12 pregnant women, over 20 years of age, with a nutritional diagnosis of overweight residing in Macaé-RJ, who underwent prenatal care in two PHC units in the municipality in 2017, were interviewed. Overweight was a challenge for those interviewed for raising perceptions and ambiguous sensations of naturalization of overweight, low self-esteem, limitation in performing daily activities and fear of what to expect from the body itself in the puerperium. It was possible to understand that the senses attributed to overweight management require humanization, integrality and effectiveness of nutritional assistance, so that it is committed to the health of women, their life histories and social relations to which they are subjected, in order to minimize problems of gestational overweight and its consequences in adult pregnant women assisted by PHC in the city of Macaé-RJ.
DOI: 10.12957/demetra.2018.33112
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