Abstract
This study seeks to understand the impact of the pandemic on the puerperium from the point of view of interactions in a virtual group. This study presents research with a qualitative approach, an exploratory character and analyzed a group composed of 9 women users of basic health services of different Family Health Strategies in the Municipality of Currais Novos-RN, Brazil. The corpus resulting from the interactions was prepared, revised, corrected and, subsequently, submitted to the Descending Hierarchical Classification Analysis of the IRAMUTEQ software, followed by content analysis according to Bardin. The dimension now analyzed was called Health Care, comprising 25.5% of units of elementary context. In the analyzed group, the covid-19 pandemic culminated in weak and precarious care flows, resulting in a series of difficulties that mothers encountered in accessing basic public health services, as well as the need to develop other strategies to respond to this scenario. In this perspective, the participants revealed that the virtual support provided bonds of friendship and strengthened the support network necessary to face the difficulties of the puerperium based on the exchange of experiences.
Keywords:
Puerperium; Social support; Virtual support; Infection from coronavirus; Covid-19
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