Evaluation of prenatal care in primary care in the perception of pregnant women.

OBJECTIVE:To evaluate prenatal care in primary health care in the perception of pregnant women. METHOD:This cross-sectional study analyzes the association and statistical significance of the expectations and satisfaction of pregnant women receiving prenatal care in a municipality of southeast Brazil. We evaluated the association using simple logistic regression and statistical significance between variables and the expectation and satisfaction domains. RESULTS:A predominance of low expectations, with 279 (74%), and high satisfaction, with 220 (58.8%), was identified among the pregnant women regarding their perceptions of prenatal care. Tests showed an association and a statistical significance between the variable "to have used the same prenatal service" with the satisfaction domain. No differences were found between the two service models for both domains. CONCLUSION:The low expectation and high satisfaction of the pregnant women for the two care models can reveal ways of improving the quality of care in both services.