Sociodemographic and obstetric profile of women undergoing episiotomy after returning to sexual activity

Abstract: To describe the socioeconomic and obstetric profile of women submitted to episiotomy after returning to sexual activities. This is a quantitative study, with an intentional and non-probabilistic sample of 126 women seen in a basic care who were submitted to vaginal delivery with episiotomy...

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Autores: Silveira, Flávia Dayana Ribeiro da, Silva, Grazielle Roberta Freitas da, Shimo, Antonieta Keiko Kakuda, 1953-, Nery, Inez Sampaio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Repositorio:Repositório da Produção Científica e Intelectual da Unicamp
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:https://www.repositorio.unicamp.br/:1510187
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12733/37426
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Artigo original
Enfermagem
Episiotomia
Sexualidade
Nursing
Episiotomy
Sexuality
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Sumario:Abstract: To describe the socioeconomic and obstetric profile of women submitted to episiotomy after returning to sexual activities. This is a quantitative study, with an intentional and non-probabilistic sample of 126 women seen in a basic care who were submitted to vaginal delivery with episiotomy. After the approval of the Ethics Committee, it was applied an instrument with the following data: age, race, habitation, income and level of schooling, followed by questions about the participant's obstetric data. The interviewees were mostly brown-skinned (33.3%), young (M = 24.6 years), in stable union (46.8%) and in recent relationships (37.3%). The majorities of them studied just until high school and were housewives (56.3%). They had individual incomes less than one salary (21.4%), living in provided houses with more than four rooms (54%) and with up to four people (55.6%). Regarding to the obstetric data, it was unidentified twin pregnancies, mostly (80.2%) of the women did not plan for pregnancy and only 11 (8.7%) did not perform any prenatal consultation. Turns evident the need of preventing unwanted pregnancies in young women with low-income. This reality can be changed with engaging public health care professionals and understanding the sexuality as basic human need, in addition to effective public policies