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Revista Iberoamericana de Educación e Investigación en Enfermería

Revista Iberoamericana de Educación e Investigación en Enfermería

ENERO 2014 N° 1 Volumen 4

Women experiences in voluntary pregnancy termination - a contribution to systematic literature search and review

Section: Reviews

How to quote

Poço Santos AM. Experiência vivida pelas mulheres no processo de interrupção voluntária de uma gravidez. Contribuição para uma revisão sistemática da literatura. Rev. iberoam. Educ. investi. Enferm. 2014; 4(1):82-92.

Authors

Ana María Poço Santos

Position

Professora Adjunta. Escola Superior de Enfermagen. Coimbra (Portugal).

Contact email: anapoco@esenfc.pt

Abstract

Purpose: Our systematic literature review (SLR) was aimed to summarize state-of-the-art understanding of women experiences in voluntary pregnancy termination (VPT).
Methods: A literature search in several databases was performed; 347 articles were found; 7 of them were selected. Findings were reported for four wide categories: existential issues; emotional issues; physical feelings and self-responsibility on fecundity regulation.
Conclusions: Maternal health and obstetric nurses play a significant role in VPT, as well as in women sexual and reproductive health promotion; this is similar to the role midwives play at an European level. Women experiences are mainly focused on existential issues; on a whirlwind including ambivalent emotions and feelings, with relief feeling at the end of the process being most prevailing; on a number of physical perceptions; on conceptus expulsion process; and on self-responsibility regarding termination process.

Keywords:

woman; midwife; experiences; abortion

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Experiência vivida pelas mulheres no processo de interrupção voluntária de uma gravidez. Contribuição para uma revisão sistemática da literatura

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