Prenatal care for pregnant women diagnosed with syphilis according to primary health care nurses
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https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.5959Keywords:
Syphilis, Prenatal Care, Primary Health Care, Nursing Care, NursingAbstract
Objective: to analyze how prenatal care to pregnant women diagnosed with syphilis is provided by nurses working in primary health care, in a health region of the interior of the State of São Paulo.
Method: non-experimental, cross-sectional, descriptive correlational research with a quantitative approach.
Results: it was possible to observe that 29.6% of nurses reported not performing subsequent prenatal consultations, and also an important association where most nurses who performed the subsequent consultations based their care on municipal protocol (P=0.000). Among the results, 30.4% of nurses did not prescribe benzylpenicillin benzathine for pregnant women who were reagent to syphilis, and 22.7% did not administer it without the presence of a physician in the unit. Another result that deserves attention is the prescription of a single treatment protocol for pregnant women regardless of the stage of syphilis.
Conclusion: There are gaps between the protocols for the care of pregnant women diagnosed with syphilis and the care provided by nurses in primary health care. It is expected that the actions evidenced in this study will promote improvements in the practice of nurses and that they will contribute to reaching the goal recommended by the World Health Organization for congenital syphilis in Brazil.
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Copyright (c) 2023 Eluana Maria Cristofaro Reis, Sandra Soares Mendes, Christianne Alves Pereira Calheiros, Simone Albino da Silva, Cristiane Aparecida Silveira, Patrícia Scotini Freitas

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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Grant numbers Financiamento 001.
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