Conocimientos del parto culturalmente adecuado del personal médico y de enfermería de los servicios de emergencia, gíneco-obstetricia y centro obstétrico del Hospital General Isidro Ayora de Loja

Abstract

The present work is carried out in order to identify the knowledge about culturally appropriate birth in the medicine and nursing personnel of the Isidro Ayora General Hospital. For this purpose, a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out in a population comprised of 47 nurses and 39 physicians working in the emergency services, gynecology-obstetrics and obstetric center, to which a survey was applied consisting of 11 questions structured in a closed manner obtaining the following results: in general, after applying the survey to both the medical and nursing staff of the OB / GYN center and emergencies of the General Hospital Isidro Ayora de Loja, it is concluded that only 59.71% of the subjects evaluated were correctly answered by the professionals, being able to identify a level of knowledge not very high for the attention of a culturally appropriate delivery, being that specifically the highest level of knowledge (68.95%) belongs to the medical personnel that works in the obstetric gynecology area and obstetric center, while the lowest level of knowledge is held by the gynecological-obstetrics nursing professionals with 57.15%.