Conhecimentos e práticas profissionais para a promoção, proteção e apoio ao aleitamento materno no município de Sinop-MT

Abstract

Introduction: Breast milk is a complete food that provides a range of advantages for the baby and should be offered exclusively until his months old and as a complement of meal until he gets 2 years old. One of the roles of health professionals is to promote, protect, and support breastfeeding. Objectives: To analyze the assistance provided to pregnant and postpartum women in the promotion, protection, and support of breastfeeding in primary health care in the at Sinop city. Methodology: This is a descriptive, cross-sectional research with a quantitative approach, whose participants were physicians, nurses, nursing technicians, nursing assistants and community health workers in the coverage area of the Primary Health Care Unit of Primaveras, located in the city of Sinop- MT. The project was approved by the CEP with CAAE: 66720123.8.0000.8097, PARECER #: 5.969.327. Results and Discussions: When tracing the sociodemographic profile of these professionals (n=16) the majority were female 93.25% (n=15), single 43.75% (n=7) of predominant race/color brown 56.25% (n=9), reported that in the unit they performed activities to encourage breastfeeding. It was possible to measure the professionals' knowledge on breastfeeding and the results indicated a lack of training since only 43.75% (n=7) had adequate knowledge. Final considerations: Given the results, it is essential to promote a continued education for these professionals to develop a service based on humanization that should be reinforced mainly by managers, to seek and achieve that Sinop- MT can become a reference in breastfeeding.