Abstract
Objective: To assess the quality of life of women who experienced near miss in the postpartum period. Methods: Cross-sectional study, nested in a prospective cohort, between October 2016 and August 2017. 262 high-risk postpartum women in a public maternity, without cognitive impairment, with some maternal near miss criterion, not undergoing abortion or gestational treatment, participated. A structured form was used to characterize them and the Short Form Survey, whose medians and Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis and Dunn tests were calculated. Results: Pain and limitations due to physical and emotional aspects were the domains of quality of life with the worst scores and cardiovascular near miss prevailed. Adolescents had worse physical limitation score (p = 0.035), puerperal women aged 36 years or more had better mental health score (p = 0.042), white women had worse pain score (p = 0.04) and better general condition health (p = 0.04) and those who underwent cesarean section had a worse score for physical limitations, emotional aspects, mental health and overall physical and mental aspects. Conclusion: The participants' quality of life was impaired by pain and physical and emotional limitations, which define the diagnosis of impaired comfort and demand quality in maternal health care.