Perception of pregnant women about obstetric physiotherapy in primary health care

• Autor(a) principal: Duarte, Camilla de Paula
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Barbosa, Rafaela da Silva Coelho, Couto, Larissa Gonçalves do, Barcelos, Vitória Coutinho, Santos, Aline de França dos, Souza, Karen Abrahão de, Alves, Danielle de Paula Aprígio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Baiana de Saúde Pública (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://rbsp.sesab.ba.gov.br/index.php/rbsp/article/view/3776
• topic: Fisioterapia; Obstetrícia; Atenção básica; Physiotherapy; Obstetrics; Basic care; Fisioterapia; Obstetricia; Atención básica

Obstetric physiotherapy emerged to care for pregnant women throughout gestation, labor, and puerperium. It aims to prevent complications, discomforts, and musculoskeletal and urogynecological disfunctions, as well as pain relief, postural orientation, and body perception. Hence, this study sough to outline the level of knowledge of pregnant women attended in Basic Health Units in Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to verify the existence and operationalization of mechanisms of access to information for these users regarding obstetric physiotherapy. This is a cross-sectional, qualitative and quantitative research. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire, which sought to assess the degree of knowledge of pregnant women about the role of physical therapy during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. A total of 27 pregnant women answered the questionnaire, showing that 74.1% ignored the physiotherapeutic role in musculoskeletal dysfunction during pregnancy, 51.9% did not know that physiotherapists are involved in labor, and 77.8% did not know about the physiotherapeutic role in postpartum. The results suggest that pregnant women assisted in primary care in the municipality of Teresópolis have little knowledge regarding obstetric physiotherapy and its importance during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum.