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- Title
Profile of high-risk pregnant women hospitalized in a maternity hospital: a descriptive study.
- Authors
de Oliveira Azevedo, Rosangela; Campos Ferreira, Helen; Silvino, Zenith Rosa; Pompeu Christovam, Barbara
- Abstract
Aim: to describe the profile of high-risk pregnant women attending the HUAP maternity hospital. Method: descriptive, retrospective and documentary research, with a quantitative approach, performed at a hospital in Niterói/RJ. Data were collected in 2013, through 148 medical records of high-risk pregnant women admitted to the hospital, from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012, and treated by descriptive statistics. Results: the majority of the pregnant women were young (up to 30 years old), with a companion and resided in the metropolitan region II/RJ. Half of them had one or two living children; 59.5% were multigravida; 79.1% had never aborted; and, among those who showed previous delivery (n=93), 64.5% had submitted to cesarean section. Regarding prenatal care, 93.3% presented attendance to the appointments. Most of the pregnant women went to the hospital through their own choice (42.6%) as they presented symptoms of general practice. Fifty-nine cases were identified 59 causes for hospitalization, with higher occurrence due to premature amniorrexis and arterial hypertension. Conclusion: the presented results can trigger proposals of protocols of attendance and monitoring of this clientele.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; HEALTH status indicators; HIGH-risk pregnancy; HOSPITAL care; LENGTH of stay in hospitals; MATERNAL health services; RESEARCH methodology; NOSOLOGY; PREGNANCY complications; PREGNANT women; SURVEYS; HOSPITAL maternity services; QUANTITATIVE research; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; RETROSPECTIVE studies; REPRODUCTIVE history; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing, 2017, Vol 16, Issue 2, p218
- ISSN
1676-4285
- Publication type
Article