Abandono do acompanhamento em saúde de bebês de mães com agravo de transmissão vertical

Abstract

Objective: to analyze the abandonment of the health mo-nitoring of babies of mothers with vertical transmission grievance. Methods: a retrospective documental study. The data came from children’s records stratified as high risk by the Paranaense Mother Network Program, due to being dau-ghters of women diagnosed with syphilis, toxoplasmosis or Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the gestational period, attended in a reference center of maternal-infant care. For the analysis of factors associated with abandonment of tre-atment, univariate analysis and Fisher’s Exact Test with so-ciodemographic variables were performed. All ethical pre-cepts were observed. Results: a total of 136 medical records were analyzed. The cases with the highest abandonment rate were the children of women with toxoplasmosis and gestational syphilis, presenting rates of 48.4% and 45.7%, respectively. Conclusion: the abandonment of baby health monitoring is recurrent. The reasons for frequent abandon-ment were: lack of active search, lack of transportation and unforeseen family events.