Self-esteem evaluation on pregnant women who live with hiv/aids and have been attended in speacialized ambulatory
International Journal of Development Research
Self-esteem evaluation on pregnant women who live with hiv/aids and have been attended in speacialized ambulatory
Received 17th March, 2019; Received in revised form 25th April, 2019; Accepted 10th May, 2019; Published online 30th June, 2019.
Copyright © 2019, Nathália da Silva Correia 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.
Objective: evaluate the pregnant women self-esteem who live with HIV/AIDS. Methods: This is an epidemiological with cross sectional and quantitative approach study, 33 pregnant women took part of the survey and they were interviewed in a school-ambulatory from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. They answered to two questionnaires, one of them was to the self-esteem evaluation and the o the one was for socioeconomic characterization, clinical-obstetric and emotional. The levels of self-esteem were related to the other variables and with data analysis. Results: The outcomes show the primigravidas with no partners, who were diagnosed with HIV in the current prenancy presented lower levels of self-esteem than the others. Besides that, the pregnant women who were at the self-esteem lower levels group also had more negative emotional aspects related to the pregnancy. Conclusion: More than never there is a need to the health systems work as a source of support, in addition to the actuationregarding strategies development that helps to promote the self-esteem raise in women who are HIV/AINDS carrier.
