Ana Zélia Silva Fernandes de Sousa, Valdecyr Herdy Alves, Andressa Tavares Parente, Bianca Dargam Gomes Vieira, Audrey Vidal Pereira, Lucia Helena Garcia Penna, Giovanna Rosario Soanno Marchiori, Diego Pereira Rodrigues
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Abstract
Objectives: to understand the values attributed by nurses and physicians working in obstetric care for abortion.
Methods: this is a phenomenological study based on Max Scheler's theory of values, with 19 semi-structured online interviews with healthcare professionals working in legal abortion, using the snowball sampling recruitment technique. The collected data were transcribed in full and submitted to content analysis.
Results: it was evident from healthcare professionals' statements that abortion has a vital, moral and ethical professional value. Furthermore, the lack of value given to abortion by physicians and nurses was demonstrated as well as the vital value attributed to women's lives by public health.
Final considerations: in order to understand the values attributed by nurses and physicians, there was the need to advance the values of health, rights, dignity and respect for women in the face of abortion.
期刊介绍:
The Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem created in 1932, March 20 is the official publication of the Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem (Brazilian Nursing Association) has as purpose to disseminate the scientific production from different nursing interest areas of knowledge, including those which express the political project of the Association. The Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem is the oldest journal of the Brazilian nursing. Its first title was "Annaes de Enfermagem" from 1932 to 1941, being entitled Anais de Enfermagem" until 1955, when its title was changed to the current.