A doula comunitária: uma experiência reinventada

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Julia Cristina Amaral Horta
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Acompanhante de Pacientes; Antropologia Cultural/tendências; Trabalho de Parto/ psicologia; Parto Humanizado; Doula; Bem-estar materno/tendências; Acompanhantes de pacientes; Parto humanizado; Análise qualitativa; Centros independentes de assistência à gravidez e ao parto; Antropologia cultural; Trabalho de parto/psicologia; Epidemiologia descritiva
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ECJS-7S2HJR

This study aims at analyzing the personal characteristics of doula -women, according to their own point of view, and their practice in taking care of the parturient, who are users of the Unified Health System (SUS), from Sofia Feldman Hospital. This descriptive-explorative study was based on a qualitative methodology, sustained by dialect materialism. The research was developed at the Health Integral Assistance Foundation from Sofia Feldman Hospital in Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais, which is a philanthropic institution responsible for assisting the woman and the newborn who are SUS users and has as a mission the humanization of health care. A number of nine doulas, who work at the Foundation for more than two years, was studied. The data collection occurred from May 5th to 29th, 2008 taking into consideration the participants history of life and observation. The reports based on the history of life were evaluated according Foucaults (2006, 2008) orientation on discourse analysis. Considering discourse analysis, a total of seven discursive formations were constituted, consisted of: i) insertion on the project; ii) own experience during the parturition; iii) being a doula; iv) relationship with the institute staff; v) satisfaction; vi) recognition and vii) hospital (place of acting). The results have shown doulas are women who act in personal life and try to develop a social insertion that allows them to make an important contribution for the life of the parturient. Also, women-doulas have shown the strength they have, and which keeps them, comes from the differentiated care they give and the manner how they establish the several relations involving care to a parturient inside a hospital. In addition, they have also proved the meaning of the other dimension of taking care which was possible due to the true contact among people, a personalized and humanized care. The most important revelation in this study was that the doulas strength is situated on the difference and on the potential they have to inspire the change on the mentality of the various actors that helps during the parturition and the childs birth.