Kangaroo mother method: maternal perception of the disease care guidance towards the newborn
International Journal of Development Research
Kangaroo mother method: maternal perception of the disease care guidance towards the newborn
Received 17th August, 2019; Received in revised form 28th September, 2019; Accepted 11th October, 2019; Published online 30th November, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Maria de Belém Ramos Sozinho 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.
This study aimed to recognize the maternal perceptions of nursing team in the orientation of newborn cares in the Kangaroo Method (KM). It is a descriptive study, with qualitative approach, performed at Hospital Fundação Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Pará (FSCMPA). It was developed with 16 mothers of newborns admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) as the first stage; The second stage is marked to be the Kangaroo Mother hospitalization. It was approved at Committee of Ethics and Research of CESUPA and of FSCMPA and obeys466/12 of CONEP resolution. By the collected reports it was identified some thematic categories. The study showed that after the guidance provided by the nursing staff, mothers feel welcomed and are safer to take care of their babies. Nursing, together with the multidisciplinary team, has played a fundamental role in the implementation of KMM and in strengthening the affective bond between the baby, the mother and her family.
