O seguimento de usuárias de dispositivo intra-uterino (DIU) no serviço de planejamento familiar da Maternidade Escola Assis Chateaubriand – Universidade Federal do Ceará

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Soares, José Aluizio da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Anticoncepção; Planejamento Familiar; Preservativos Femininos
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/7015

Evidence based medicine reinforced quality of attention to patients, giving to professionals safe directions in their clinic decisions and helping on the elaboration of health service protocols. The IUD has been submitted to more than a century of research as a contraceptive method. The results show a high efficacy with few side-effects and its acceptance is still high among women who attend contraception health services. How is characterized the demand for IUD? Is the IUD an efficient method? These are the two relevant questions addressed in this essay, for which study group include those women registered in the Family Planning Service (FPS) of the Maternidade-Escola Assis Chateaubriand. To perform this task, this work used a follow-up data set for this clientele, which not only allowed socio-demographic comparisons in two distinct periods of time (beginning and actual phases of the SFP), but also made possible the calculation of the Pearl Index. The empirical evidences showed a significant change in the profile of demand for anti-conceptive methods, and a great efficacy of the IUD, with a Pearl Index of only 0,02