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A Study of Material Care and Ancestoral Knowledge in Ecuador with the Aid of Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

Abstract:

The present study treats on the ancestral traditions in the maternal care in indigenous communities of the Ecuadorian mountain. We aim to find what factors of the ancestral medicine determine the preference in the indigenous women to the moment of the childbirth. For the development of this proposal, interviews and questionnaires were applied to 23 mothers and 3 midwives which identified themselves as indigenous or mestizoes. The data were processed by means of neutrosophic cognitive maps, which allowed us to discover four fundamental factors of preference. We concluded that if the centers of health are able to apply and to respect the ancestral knowledge in the institutions, a bigger quantity of pregnat indigenous women would go to there to give birth. This study allowed us to understand and to revise the cultural aspects and customs that influence in the processes of the pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium in the comunity we study on. This knowledge allowed us to structure strategies that can be incorporated to the academic environment to reach better results in the indicators of mother s health at local and national level.