RESUMO
Os autores apresentam um programa de estimulo ao aleitamento materno instituto no Hospital Universitario Regional do Norte do Parana, em Londrina desde 1977. O programa inclui alojamento conjunto, orientacao no bercario, retorno precoce em ambulatorio e enfase nas orientacoes sobre aleitamento materno no programa de puericultura. Avaliam os resultados obtidos com 257 maes de criancas de dois a 12 meses, submetidas as orientacoes deste programa.Concluem que houve um aumento do indice de aleitamento materno das criancas atendidas no Hospital Universitario de Londrina comparado com dados anteriores. Comentam, no entanto, que esse aumento nao deve ser atribuido unicamente a acao do programa de estimulo ao aleitamento materno, mas tambem a outras fatores
Assuntos
Recém-Nascido , Lactente , Humanos , Aleitamento Materno , Educação em Saúde , DesmameRESUMO
The authors have made a research on the influence of mailing letters on keeping up the returns in an ambulatory of health care service. The purpose of the paper was to seek a way to improve the return rate, which is usually low, and brings up difficulties to structure adequately a staff. One hundred children who had failed to come to their last appointment were studied and divided in two groups: 50 children to whose responsible were sent letters setting up a new appointment were included in group I; group II served as a control group. Out of the 97 absentees, 36 children (37.1%) returned. Their return was spontaneous in 22 cases (22.7%)--12 children of group I and 10 of group II. 14 mothers returned on the date set up by mail. Out of the 47 mailed letters, 20 (42.5%) were sent back by the post office. The authors have concluded that mailing letters was an effective method to decrease the number of children who miss their follow-up in ambulatory of health care service.