A SAÚDE MENTAL DAS MÃES ACOMPANHANTES TAMBÉM IMPORTA

Abstract

This work arose from concerns about the mental health care of accompanying mothers, during the mandatory curricular internship I and II at the pediatric clinic of the Hospital Universitário Lauro Wanderley located in the city of João Pessoa and aims to analyze the mental suffering of mothers who exercise the role of companions of their children in a hospital, from reading research carried out in hospitals where these mothers were interviewed and reported what it was like to go through this process. Among these researches, authors such as Bezerra and Fraga (1996), Rodrigues et al. (2005), Figueiredo et al. (2013), among others, who used their research to allow access to this lonely suffering, were used as reference. Therefore, this research contributed to the reflection around this subject, in addition to demonstrating that during the hospitalization of a child / adolescent, everyone in the family suffers impact and especially their companion, who are mostly their mothers, considering the hypothesis that the hospitalization of a child is an expressive factor that favors mothers' mental suffering. In this sense, bibliographic research was used, building a brief historical survey of how the genesis of SUS and mental health care was, because to understand the transformations and how health care in Brazil is organized, it is necessary to understand its historical aspects. As results obtained through the experience lived as an intern and the information obtained after reading the bibliographic research, it was found that the hypothesis raised was confirmed and that in fact having a hospitalized child harms the mental health of the accompanying mothers. It is worth noting that the mental suffering of these women should not be considered a problem only for this, but a public health issue, so it is essential that professionals working in health establish mechanisms of care and attention to these women, in addition to being essential that the family support and care for these mothers in this very difficult time.