LIVING OF FATHERS ARISING FROM THE CANGURU METHOD
Father; prematurity; kangaroo method; humanization; neonatal nursing.
Worldwide, more than 2.7 million newborns die every year before they reach the age of five. In this context, Humanized Attention to Low Birth Weight Infant - Kangaroo Method is a strategy of humanization directed at neonatal health. The purpose of this method is to perform early and continuous skin-to-skin contact of the premature newborn with the mother, father and family. This practice increases the affective bond, encouragement to breastfeeding, neurobehavioural development, early discharge of the health unit, as well as the empowerment of parents and family members in view of the continuity of the method in the family environment. Based on the above, the objective was to understand the experience of the father in the kangaroo method with premature child. It is an exploratory and descriptive research, with a qualitative approach, anchored in the assumptions of the Theory Grounded in the Data and analyzed from the point of view of the principles of Symbolic Interactionism. The data were obtained with 15 men who lived the kangaroo method with the premature child, in the Kangaroo Intermediate Care Unit of the Maternity School Januário Cicco in Natal / RN, Brazil. According to the inclusion criteria, participants should be 18 years of age or older and living the Kangaroo Method. Data collection took place from March to July 2017. For this purpose, an instrument was used containing questions related to the socio-demographic characterization and an open question contemplating the research question. Preceded these steps the approval of the hospital, the approval of the Ethics and Research of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Committee, CAAE No. 62020016.1.0000.5537 and opinion No. 1,850,383 as well as signing the Consent Agreement Informed by respondents. From the data collected and analyzed emerged the central category named "Parent experience in the Kangaroo Method" and three categories with their respective subcategories: Feelings experienced by the father in the realization of MC; Vision of the father on the kangaroo unit and parental involvement in the kangaroo method. Thus, it was evidenced that prematurity influences the feelings of men in the face of caring for the child. Given this, it is relevant that the Nursing team consider the various situations faced by the father in the face of prematurity of the child, with a view to minimizing antagonistic feelings and favoring a bond between the father-son dyad.