[Experiencing skin to skin contact with the baby during the postpartum period as a mechanical act].

The objective was to understand the puerpera's experience during the first skin to skin contact with the newborn in the immediate postpartum period, the obstetric ward of a public hospital in a city in Bahia. Exploratory, descriptive and qualitative study, approved by the Ethics Committee and conducted with fourteen postpartum women, through semi-structured interviews in the period July-August 2011. The data were analyzed using Grounded Theory, identifying the phenomenon "Experiencing skin to skin contact as a mechanical act" and its three subcategories: "Encouraging the only contact", "Contact as a mechanical act" and "Being forced to initiate breastfeeding.

[Applicability of theoretical model to families of children with chronic disease in intensive care].

This study examines the applicability of the theoretical model "Looking to maintain the balance to meet the demands and take care of the hospitalized child" to families of children with chronic diseases in intensive care. This is a qualitative study that complied with Resolution 466/2012, and was approved by the Ethics Committee through the Resolution 0111.0.

[Fathers' experiences during the hospitalization of the premature newborn in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit].

This study aimed to understand the fathers' experiences during the hospitalization of premature newborn in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at a public hospital in Feira de Santana, Bahia. This is a qualitative descriptive exploratory study that was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Technology and Sciences, and carried out in a public hospital in Bahia, with nine fathers who accompanied their children hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The data were analyzed through content analysis.

[Identification and treatment of pain in the premature newborn in the intensive care unit].

This study aimed to analyze the parameters used by the nursing staff of a public hospital in Bahia for pain assessment in premature newborns and to describe the interventions used to relieve the pain. This is a qualitative descriptive study that was carried out through semi-structured interviews with ten participants, in the period from December 2008 to January 2009. The data were analyzed through content analysis.

[Pain assessment in the premature newborn in Intensive Care Unit].

This study aimed to analyze the process of pain identification in premature by the professional staff of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of a public hospital in the interior of Bahia, Brazil. This is a quantitative descriptive exploratory study that was made through a form applied to twenty-four health professional of a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The data were analyzed in the Statistical Package for Social Sciences.