Vivências de mulheres com diagnóstico de COVID-19 durante a gestação

Abstract

Pregnancy comprises a period of diverse physiological and psychological changes in women's lives, which, added to the additional factors of the COVID-19 pandemic, could have impacts on both the pregnant woman and the fetus. Therefore, the construction of studies with pregnant women who had COVID-19 becomes relevant. So that, based on its results, the specific demands of this population and possible health care alternatives in the face of a health crisis, such as this pandemic, can be identified. In this sense, the objective was to understand the experience of women diagnosed with COVID-19 during pregnancy. This is a descriptive and exploratory research, with a qualitative approach. The study was carried out in a public maternity hospital, located in the municipality of Salvador – Bahia, a micro-regional reference for obstetric care of usual risk. Data collection took place through interviews with a semistructured form from December 2022 to March 2023. Eight women participated who were hospitalized during pregnancy in the study scenario between March 2020 and March 2022; The statements were recorded after signing the Informed Consent Form, and later transcribed in full. To organize the data, it was submitted to Content Analysis proposed by Franco, thematic modality. With the analysis of the data, two categories emerged in which the experience of women who had COVID-19 during pregnancy was understood, based on the participants' perception, which were: Psycho-emotional experiences during pregnancy during the COVID- 19 pandemic; and Experiences related to health care. This study revealed a direct relationship between the feelings presented by the participants and the diagnosis during the pandemic period. It is noted that in addition to the physical and emotional pregnancy changes that occur in a woman's body, the advent of the pandemic was configured as an additional stressful event and directly impacted the physical and mental health of pregnant women.