Qualidade de vida de pais de bebês internados na unidade de terapia intensiva neonatal após a alta

Abstract

The present study aims to the general objective quality of life of parents of babies after discharge of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the maternity School of UFRJ and specific objectives: Apply the assessment tool of the quality of life, the WOQHOL-bref validated for use in Brazil; submit the scores obtained in the four domains of the instrument; analyze the impacts that hospital discharge generates in the lives of parents of babies who were admitted to the NICU. This is a study with a quantitative approach and descriptive analytical method. We interviewed 50 mothers who had their babies admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the said service. After analyzing the data, it was found that the sample was predominantly young adult, more than half had stable, other children and considered themselves practitioners of any religion. In relation to quality of life, identified that the lowest average score was assigned to the domain environment (56.69 ± 15.20) followed by the physical domain (67.21 ± 11.62). The domain less harmed was the social relations (71.50 ± 17.01). One can consider that the quality of life of parents of babies after discharge of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is satisfactory despite the feelings of fear and insecurity that emerge during this baby care at home. The mothers of the infants of Nicu graduates require monitoring during hospitalization and after discharge of a multidisciplinary team. This monitoring can be accomplished at first individually during the hospitalization, to talk about the high and home care, clearing up doubts and empowering the family and especially the mother for domiciliary care. In a second moment, after discharge, you can perform a group of mothers, with nurses, psychologists and nutritionists twice a month during the period of waiting room of follow-up, where they can express their feelings, sharing the experiences of take a baby home from the NICU.