Constraints and/or determinants of return to sexual activity in the puerperium.
| Autor: | Enderle Cde F; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil. clecienderle@yahoo.com.br, Kerber NP, Lunardi VL, Nobre CM, Mattos L, Rodrigues EF |
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| Jazyk: | English; Portuguese; Spanish; Castilian |
| Zdroj: | Revista latino-americana de enfermagem [Rev Lat Am Enfermagem] 2013 May-Jun; Vol. 21 (3), pp. 719-25. |
| DOI: | 10.1590/S0104-11692013000300010 |
| Abstrakt: | Objective: to identify factors which constrain or determine the return to sexual activity in the puerperium. Method: exploratory and descriptive study undertaken in a university hospital in the South of Brazil. Fifteen women who had recently given birth, who received a consultation with the nurse in the period August - October 2011, took part in the study. Data was collected after the consultation had finished through semi-structured interviews, in which the women who had recently given birth were asked about the return to sexual activity and the feelings involved in this process. Results: the principal determinant/constraint for return to sexual activity in the post-natal period was the fear of a new pregnancy. Fear of feeling pain, permission from the health professional, shame of their own bodies and changes in libido emerged as constraining and/or determinant factors in the thematic analysis. Conclusion: it is considered fundamental for the issue of contraception to be addressed with the woman/couple during the pre-natal consultation, so that there may be opportunities for reflection and dialog prior to the critical time itself. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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