Non-verbal nurse-parturient communication in labor in Portuguese-speaking countries
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1590/1518-8345.3032.3193Keywords:
Nonverbal Communication; Obstetric Nursing; Labor, Obstetric; Women’s Health; Natural Childbirth; Nursing CareAbstract
Objective:
to analyze nonverbal communication between nurse and parturient during the active phase of labor in two Portuguese-speaking countries.
Method:
a quantitative and analytical study, whose sample consisted of 709 interactions that used the nonverbal communication of nurses and parturients. The analyzed variables were: distance; posture; axis; contact; emblematic gestures; illustrator gestures and regulatory gestures. For the analysis of the data, the Chi-Square and Likelihood Ratio tests were used.
Results:
the intimate distance between nurse and parturient in both countries (p = 0.005) prevailed. In both, touch was the most commonly used form of contact (p <0.0001). In both countries, the parturient remained lying down (p <0.0001). In relation to the established contact (p <0.0001), the parturient did not use contact. The face-to-face axis predominated in the interactions in both countries between nurse-parturient (p <0.0001) and parturient-nurse (p <0.0001).
Conclusion:
similarities were observed in non-verbal communication between nurses and parturients in both countries. However, there are differences such as the established contact between Brazilian and Cape Verdean nurses to parturients.
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