Pre-natal non-drug interventions to prevent urinary infection: integrative review

Objective: To analyze the evidence levels of published articles that evaluated non-drug interventions used in prenatal care to prevent urinary tract infections (UTIs) and maternal and perinatal repercussions. Methods: Integrative review from 983 records, raised in LILACS, MEDLINE Complete - EBSCO, SCOPUS, CINAHL and Web of Science databases. Results: 940 records were removed due to duplicates, ineligibility, among other reasons, as well as 40 for not answering the research question. The corpus of analysis consisted of three primary surveys, levels of evidence II, III and V. Despite the scarcity of surveys, the three located showed a positive effect in raising preventive knowledge and, as an effect, one of them obtained statistically significant results for disease reduction in pregnant women. Final Considerations: Epidemiological studies of UTI and its maternal and perinatal conditions in Brazil are recommended, as well as clinical trials on the effectiveness of preventive actions.