The path of the family in the choice of breastfeeding premature newborn

• Grant number: 12/00499-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2012
• End date: February 28, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Nursing
• Principal Investigator: Monika Wernet
• Grantee: Flávia Corrêa Porto de Abreu D Agostini
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (CCBS). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The practice of breastfeeding in the premature child has peculiarities which, if not properly managed will favor the early weaning before discharge from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and the lived at home after this discharge. The present study aims to examine the experiences of early feeding adopted by the family during the first month after discharge from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, characterizing breastfeeding the premature child is experienced by the family, and so propose interventions on it. Adopted as a theoretical approach the Symbolic Interactionism and selects the qualitative method by emphasizing the knowledge and understanding of events and situations. The data collection will be developed through semi-structured interviews, focusing on the practice of breastfeeding and the interactional processes experienced in decision making about the same, both times of the staying in the care unit, as the ones lived at home. The results aim to understand the family experience in the practice of breastfeeding in the premature child at the time of discharge from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and lived at home, in order to generate theoretical benefits for the construction of an intervention strategy aimed at the comprehensive care of the families in this situation. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

FLÁVIA CORRÊA PORTO DE ABREU; BRUNA DE SOUZA LIMA MARSKI; NATÁLIA CUSTÓDIO; SORAYA CIRILO CARVALHO; MONIKA WERNET. ALEITAMENTO MATERNO DO PREMATURO EM DOMICÍLIO. Texto & Contexto : Enfermagem, v. 24, n. 4, p. 968-975, 2015-11-24. (12/00499-2)