Educação em saúde no pré-natal: uma revisão integrativa

Abstract

The prenatal and birth are unique moments for each woman and a special experience in the family universe. Health professionals have an important role as educators throughout all stages of pregnancy-puerperal cycle. The work aims to conduct a literature review on the scientific production related to health education in prenatal care. To this end, we carried out a search of studies published in journals indexed in LILACS and BDENF. The study population consisted of 110 articles and a sample of 07. The study showed that 71.4% of the surveyed articles address the importance of the woman's participation in the educational process to obtain a transformation, while 14.3% reflect the importance of inclusion of the nurse as a member of the family health team in action prenatal education. 14.3% was also shown the importance in a systematic way of men in the scenarios of health care during the prenatal period, contributing to the deepening of relations between the couple and the group. The study shows that nurses are not only conducting research on prenatal care, but also other professionals such as physiotherapists, doctors, dentists, pharmacists and biologists, which shows and confirms how important health education in prenatal care. The study allows us to say that the success of health education in prenatal care is linked to various factors such as implementation of operational groups formed by mutiprofissional team, that team being co-responsible along with nursing and pregnant women, abandoning the traditional view only transmit knowledge, but to exchange experiences through dialogue, dynamics, among other possibilities.