Pregnant women group in primary care: opportunity for construction of knowledge and experiences during pregnancy

Abstract

Objectives: To verify the expectations of pregnant women on learning opportunities about pregnancy, labor and delivery; to perform experience workshops based on the expectations of pregnant women; to evaluate the perception of the participants about their experience in the activities developed. Method: Action research, with a quanti-qualitative approach. Data collection was performed at two health centers in the city of Sorocaba, São Paulo, through six workshops, from May to August 2016, by oral interview and sociodemographic profile application. The content of the interviews was organized according to discourse of the collective subject reference and a thematic analysis was applied to the resulting discourses. Results: 10 pregnant women took part in this study. Expectations and perceptions highlighted the following categories: help to health pregnancy and delivery, collective construction of knowledge, bonding, well-being, satisfaction with the group, welcoming space-environment, family, and promotion of self-care and self-esteem. Conclusion: the workshops addressed the expectations expressed by pregnant women regarding the experience in the groups reflecting knowledge building, mobilized unreal conceptions and eliminating doubts of the gestational process. Thus, it was found that the pregnant women group is a health strategy to ensure favorable results for favorable pregnancies, reaching an even greater number of clients.