Changes in occupational performance of mothers of pre-term newborn as occupational therapeutic intervention

Abstract

Motherhood as an occupation and the implications of becoming a mother of a preterm baby, added to the child's hospitalization context, generate a significant repercussion in the woman's life, who abdicates other occupational roles to accompany the newborn. study analyzed changes in the occupational performance of the mother and preterm newborn baby, through occupational therapeutic intervention. This is an integrative review in the Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS) and Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO Brazil) databases, using as described: “occupational therapy” AND “prematurity”, “therapy occupational” AND “newborn”, “performance” AND “prematurity”. Articles were selected from 2016 to 2021, in Portuguese, in which only 5 studies met the main objective of the research. In evidence of the selected references, the change in maternal occupational performance, socio-emotional, psychosocial, personal care and productive activities were identified, providing the intervention of occupational therapy with positive results. Changes in maternal occupational performance directly interfere with interpersonal and socio-emotional skills, thus the occupational therapist enhances occupational performance components such as personal care, productive activities, psychosocial skills and cognitive integration.