SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ART OF BREASTFEEDING FOR PREGNANT WOMEN: MOSCOVICI-BASED TYPES
Nursing. Pregnant Women. Psychology, Social. Social Representations. Art. Paint. Humanization of Assistance.
The Art of Maternal Womb Painting is an artistic and therapeutic technique used to represent the imaginary baby and attachments of pregnancy, like the placenta and the umbilical cord. In this sense, the study has as the object the social representations of women that experiencing the painting in their maternal womb. As an objective: To understand the social representations of pregnant women about the realization of the Art of Maternal Womb Painting. This is a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory study, based on the Theory of Social Representations, carried out with pregnant women assisted in prenatal care in health basic units in the city of Maceió / AL, Brazil, obeying the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The information was produced from a semi-structured interview in two stages, the first to characterize the participants and the second, after performing the technique of painting the mother's womb, to understand the social representations facing this experience. The study was carried out from October / 2020 to March / 2021, after approval by the Research Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Alagoas, under CAAE: 23846619.1.0000.5013. For data analysis, the content analysis method was used, from the perspective of Bardin. As parcial results, two thematic categories emerged: “Generating the imaginary baby: a continuous process based on anchoring and objectification” and the category “The experience of Art of Maternal Womb Painting”, the first discourse in the subcategories “I wish to do the painting”; “Dreams and feelings that reveal the imaginary baby”; “Transforming the intangible into 'familiar/near'’” and the second in the subcategories “Social Representations about womb painting for the being ‘women who is pregnant’” and “Social Representations of the experience of Art of Maternal Womb Painting”. Finally, the study brings as partial considerations feelings and aspirations unveiled by women during pregnancy and identified the potential of this painting technique in promoting the bond between mother and baby, as well as between family members and health professionals.