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Vol. 32. Issue S1.
Maternal and Child Nursing
Pages S14-S22 (June 2022)
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Vol. 32. Issue S1.
Maternal and Child Nursing
Pages S14-S22 (June 2022)
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The experience of giving birth in a hospital in Spain: Humanization versus technification
La experiencia de parto en un hospital de España: humanización versus tecnificación
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Silvia Esteban-Sepúlvedaa,b,
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, Montserrat Fabregas-Mitjansa, Laura Ordobas-Pagesa, Ana Tutusaus-Arderiua, Ligia Emanuela Andreicaa, Juan Manuel Leyva-Moralc
a Consorci Parc de Salut MAR de Barcelona, Methodology, Quality and Nursing Research Department, Barcelona, Spain
b Hospital del Mar Institute of Medical Research (IMIM), Research Group in Nursing Care (GRECI), Barcelona, Spain
c Nursing Research Group in Vulnerability and Health, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
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Abstract
Aim

To explore and describe the experiences of women giving birth in a tertiary public hospital, with special focus on experiences related to humanized care and women's participation in decision making.

Method

This is a qualitative phenomenological study through semi-structured interviews to postpartum women giving birth in a tertiary hospital between January and May 2017. Data were analysed through content analysis.

Results

The two overarching themes emerged were the professional-information dyad and privacy. Subthemes of the first main theme were the therapeutic relationship, decision-making, feeding the baby, procedures, and the time factor. Subthemes of the second topic were the feelings generated by the hospital environment, the delivery room, and the maternity ward.

Conclusions

If the therapeutic relationship is good, technology is not seen as dehumanising but rather as necessary to ensure continuing safety. “Humanising” material resources are not a priority for women in the birth process and are little used. Privacy was experienced as being a particularly intense need, which women called for throughout the healthcare process.

Keywords:
Humanization of assistance
Humanizing delivery
Decision making
Quality of health care
Parturition
Birth setting
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Objetivo

Explorar y describir las experiencias de las mujeres que dan a luz en un hospital de tercer nivel de Barcelona, España, con especial atención en las experiencias relacionadas con el cuidado humanizado y la participación de las mujeres en la toma de decisiones.

Método

Estudio cualitativo fenomenológico mediante entrevistas semiestructuradas a mujeres que parieron en un hospital de tercer nivel entre enero y mayo de 2017. Se llevó a cabo análisis de contenido.

Resultados

Los dos grandes temas que surgieron fueron la díada profesional-información y la privacidad. Los subtemas del primer tema principal fueron la relación terapéutica, la toma de decisiones, la alimentación del bebé, los procedimientos y el factor tiempo. Los subtemas del segundo fueron los sentimientos generados por el entorno hospitalario, la sala de partos y la maternidad.

Conclusiones

Si la relación terapéutica es buena, la tecnología no se considera deshumanizadora sino necesaria para garantizar la seguridad de forma continuada. «Humanizar» los recursos materiales no es una prioridad para las mujeres en el proceso del parto y se utilizan poco. La privacidad se vivió como una necesidad especialmente intensa, que las mujeres reclamaron durante todo el proceso de atención médica.

Palabras clave:
Humanización de la atención
Parto humanizado
Toma de decisiones
Calidad de la atención de salud
Parto
Entorno del parto

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