Música como tecnologia de cuidado para promover saúde em uma maternidade: percepções de gestantes, puérperas e seus acompanhantes

Abstract

The experience of hospitalization is often presented as something distressing and stressful, even in a maternity sector, where the affective load is usually positive. Thus, health promotion actions become similar for these feelings of anxiety, fear and sadness, with music being an excellent tool for this. This is understood as a perspective on the study of the importance of the hospital and its study on music as a care technology to promote health in the hospital. It was a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research, based on health promotion research criteria. Seven pregnant women and eight postpartum women participated, and 14 companions from the maternity sector of the largest hospital in the municipality of Chapecó, Santa Catarina. For data collection, an interview was carried out with semi-structured questions, between the months of September 2021 and February 2022, identifying the participants with codenames. Data were analyzed by participant content, emerging four categories for discussion: characterization; experiences in the hospitalization process; health promotion in the face of the hospitalization process; and music as an awakening of emotions and feelings, a way to promote health. As-if-research, with the determination that for a period of a lot of anxiety, family anxiety and even beyond the restriction determination, with homesickness and the configuration results, with homesickness and the results. Health participants regarding knowledge, in relation to promotion in its expanded concept, states that promotion, especially music, is an important strategy to improve the lives of patients. Participants declare that music had important meanings, not distraction, their feelings of concern, hospital concern and joy, in addition to being a means to promote health. Finally, through the meanings of music, the development of studies is encouraged for a new area of health as for other areas, as well as the nursing environment to the practice of music, as well as other strategies to promote music.