Mother’s perception of congenital syphilis in her fetus

Authors

  • Valdenia Cordeiro Lima Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú.
  • Raquel Martins Mororó Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú.
  • Daniela de Mesquita Feijão Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú.
  • Maria Valderlanya de Vasconcelos Frota Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú.
  • Maria Aparecida Martins Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú.
  • Sâmia Maria Ribeiro Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú.
  • Maria Socorro Carneiro Linhares Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22421/15177130-2016v17n2p118

Keywords:

Health Care, Public Health, Congenital Syphilis, Prevention and control.

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the perception of mothers of children with a diagnosis of congenital syphilis about the disease. This is a qualitative, exploratory-descriptive research of cases of congenital syphilis in the year 2013, held in the city of Sobral, state of Ceará, developed by the tutorial Group of the Program of Education through Work for Health - Health Surveillance (PET-Saúde/VS). Data were collected through the studies of the medical records, and semi-structured interviews; the latter were analyzed by means of the technique of thematic categorization by Minayo (2008). The lack of knowledge by mothers about the disease could be observed, which was influenced by a low level of education, and low economic index, in addition to the deficit of guidance by professionals, leading to inadequate treatment. Therefore, it is believed that the guidanceby a healthcare professional to the pregnant women with syphilis, mainly about the risks children run when infected with the Treponema pallidum, can lead to a reduction of the data revealed in this search.

Author Biographies

Valdenia Cordeiro Lima, Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú.

Student of Nursing, Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú.

Raquel Martins Mororó, Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú.

Nurse graduated from the Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú.

Daniela de Mesquita Feijão, Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú.

Nurse graduated from the Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú.

Maria Valderlanya de Vasconcelos Frota, Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú.

Student of Nursing, Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú.

Maria Aparecida Martins, Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú.

Nurse graduated from the Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú. Epidemiological Surveillance Technique Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Sobral -CE.

Sâmia Maria Ribeiro, Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú.

Nurse. Professor of the Nursing Course at Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú.

Maria Socorro Carneiro Linhares, Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú.

Nurse. Professor of the Nursing Course at Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú. Master in Nursing from the Universidade Federal do Ceará.

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Published

2016-12-29

How to Cite

1.
Lima VC, Mororó RM, Feijão D de M, Frota MV de V, Martins MA, Ribeiro SM, Linhares MSC. Mother’s perception of congenital syphilis in her fetus. Espac. Saude [Internet]. 2016 Dec. 29 [cited 2024 Jul. 3];17(2):118-25. Available from: https://espacoparasaude.fpp.edu.br/index.php/espacosaude/article/view/292

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 2 (2016)

Section

Artigos

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