Women sadness/depression: an approach in the period of the pregnant and or puerperium

Abstract

In the gestation and after-childbirth, the woman and its family pass for a series of changes that can premake use or same to intensify the sadness or the depression after-childbirth. This study it identified and it compared the repercussions of these depressive pictures in pregnates/women in the after-childbirth of low risk with the of high risk. The research is qualitative, descriptive, exploratory, of the type case study. This study was made during the months of may to November of 2006, at the High Risk Ambulatory center and the Basic Health Unit of the city of São Carlos/SP, and in the houses of the participants. For the collection of data one used of two scripts of interview and scale of Beck. Eight pregnates had been interviewed. The results had demonstrated that the familiar support of the friend and in this phase of the life is extremely important, and the sadness and/or depression after-childbirth if install or if it aggravates when these aspects are not fortified. The gestates of low risk are more vulnerable for presenting difficulties of adaptation to the maternal paper and for presenting unstabler partner-economic and familiar situations, what in instigates them to reflect in the paper of the Units of Basic Attention, in special of the professionals of nursing in the precocious identification, accompaniment and guiding of the cases of depression.