Perception of respected childbirth in pregnant indigenous shuar and achuar from canton taisha, year 2018-2019

Abstract

Introduction: Pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum in indigenous women integrate a process of great social and cultural importance loaded with myths, rites and paradigms. In Ecuador the indigenous ethnic group is represented with 35% general population. Objective: To analyze the perception of the preference of the respected delivery in Shuar and Achuar indigenous pregnant women who attend the outpatient clinic of the Unit Nested from Taisha canton years 2018-2019. Materials and methods: It is a study with an approach qualitative-quantitative; in the quantitative part, a documentary analytical bibliographic design was used and in the qualitative part was carried out through an analytical phenomenological approach. for the part quantitative information was collected from a validated matrix, meanwhile, the qualitative part was applied a semi-structured questionnaire under the interview technique. The data obtained from the validated matrix were coded and processed in the SPSS 2.0 program. Results: Perception of the 119 pregnant women who attended the Nested Taisha unit in relation to the place of care of their delivery was 67 (56.30%); 50 (42.02%) chose to deliver at home; at the San Jose Hospital Taisha and 2 (1.68%); on the farm. Similarly, 72 (65.50%); preferred the accompaniment by her husband, 38 chose the squatting position (31.93%); finally 33 (27.33%); they preferred the lying position. Conclusions: It was identified that the Shuar and Achuar indigenous women who carried out their controls in the Nested Unit of the Taisha canton in the period 2018-2019, they preferred the vertical squatting and kneeling positions; In addition, the accompaniment of her husband based on your culture.