Apego materno-fetal e percepção dos vínculos parentais de gestantes da cidade de Pelotas/RS

Abstract

Objective: Evaluate the association between the MFA and the perception of the type of parental attachment of pregnant women in the city of Pelotas/RS. Methods: The present project is a cohort. The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics divided the urban area of Pelotas’s City into 488 census tracts, of which 244 (50%) sectors were selected to search for pregnant women until the second quarter. The women who accepted to be part of the study signed the Free and Informed Consent Term (FICT), requiring the signature of a responsible person when the participant is a minor. After the acceptance of TCLE, the pregnant woman responds to socio-demographic questions and the Parental Bonding Instrument, which investigates the perception of parental attachment. This instrument has the "protection" and "care" subscales that when combined result in the types of "optimal parenting", "affectionate protection", "no affect protection" or "careless parenting". After 60 days a new evaluation occurs, in which the Maternal- Fetal Attachment Scale is applied, seeking the intensity of the mother's bond with the fetus, and the higher score means a better MFA. The data will be encoded and then double-typed into the EpiData3.1 program. In the statistical program SPSS 21.0 will be performed bivariate analysis through t-Test and ANOVA; and multivariate analysis through linear regression. The largest study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Catholic University of Pelotas.