Conhecimento e preparo de enfermeiras para identificaçâo precoce de quadros de depressão pos parto

Abstract

Postpartum depression (PPD) is currently considered a public health problem due to the consequences it can cause in women's lives, it is known that its diagnosis is not always easy, and to carry it out, professionals need to be prepared to identify early signs and symptoms, providing rapid diagnosis, favoring prevention and health promotion actions for women and families. In this sense, this study aimed to: - Know the scientific production on early identification of cases of depression in pregnant women and - identify whether nurses who attend prenatal care feel prepared to recognize early depression in puerperal women. an integrative literature review that had the following guiding question. Are the nurses of the Family Health Strategies (FHS) prepared to identify situations in the prenatal period that could lead to postpartum depression? Articles published in the SCIELO, LILACS, BDENF databases were included between 2000 and 2015, in the languages: Portuguese and Spanish, which contained the words: pregnancy, postpartum depression and nursing in the text summary, which had text in the full available online; theses and dissertations were excluded due to time limitation. The descriptors were used in the following combination: Pregnancy; pregnancy and postpartum depression and pregnancy and postpartum depression and nursing, Information was collected and organized into a registration form containing the following information: reference code, publication title, author, publication source, author's academic background, year of publication, type of article, type of study, abstract of the article/study. The corpus of the study consisted of 4 articles that were read in full and gave rise to two thematic categories: - Difficulties of Nurses to identify situations of PPD where it is identified that although early detection of signs of this disease is very important, nurses who attend pre- -natal reported not having training that qualifies them for such practice. The pregnant woman's social context, in which the importance of the work of the ESF teams for the formation of bonds is identified, in front of which the woman and her family can feel more confident and secure to seek help and/or follow-up.