Expectations for getting pregnant in HIV-positive women challenges / clashes
International Journal of Development Research
Expectations for getting pregnant in HIV-positive women challenges / clashes
Received 17th August, 2019; Received in revised form 20th September, 2019; Accepted 11th October, 2019; Published online 20th November, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Renata Fôro Cavalcante et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The present study aims to understand the expectation to get pregnant in HIV-positive women. This is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, conducted in 2017 in a Specialized Reference Unit on Infectious and Special Parasitic Diseases (URE-DIPE), in Belém do Pará. A semi - structured script was used for the interview, aiming to understand the expectations to get pregnant and later the content analysis was performed according to Bardin. Ten HIV-positive women were interviewed. The research results together with the discussion were based on Bardin, divided into four categories. It is concluded in this study that there are high expectations to become pregnant in HIV-positive women, so this is relevant in order to contribute to nursing professionals, to realize strategies to improve care broadly with updated knowledge about This issue is also for future health professionals, who seek to provide a differentiated and humanized reception for these women who wish to become pregnant, with the aim of offering psychosocial support to achieve maternity with less suffering.
