ABSTRACT
The aim of the current study is to get to know the sexual and reproduction health practices of women belonging to the Xukuru of Ororubá ethnic group. It followed a descriptive exploratory design, of qualitative approach, based on the Transcultural Care Theory. Eighteen indigenous women, from the Cimbres village, located in Xukuru of Ororubá territory, Pesqueira County (PE), were interviewed. Four analytical categories were coded, which included the native/emic categories identified in the data collected: 1) Women belonging to the Xukuru of Ororubá ethnic group and the place they occupy; 2) Health policies and their impact on indigenous women’s lives; 3) Practices in sexual and reproductive health; 4) Nursing: health promotion and empowerment. The importance of the female character inside indigenous populations is often highlighted, however, the different behavioral patterns and roles attributed to men and women still lies on power relations unfavorable to women. The Xukuru of Ororubá face sanitary and health conditions similar to that faced by the general population living in the Agreste and Hinterland regions of Pernambuco State. Xukuru of Ororubá women make regular and simultaneous use of biomedicine and indigenous medicine, however, without real articulation. There is an urgent need to redirect women-health practices in order to perform nursing practices based on a transcultural approach.
KEYWORDS
Sexual and reproductive health; Indigenous population; Transcultural nursing