Violência por parceiro íntimo: uma análise sobre usuárias da atenção primária à saúde de Ribeirão das Neves - MG

Abstract

Intimate partner violence or domestic violence is a worldwide known phenomenon that involves multiple modes of violence against woman: physical, psychological and sexual. The abuses are related to the familiar environment and, several times, it’s kept hidden, disguised of ritual practices that are sedimented and accepted by diverse human aggrupation’s, by their religions and by their governments. In 2012 a qualiquantitative study was conducted by the Health Promotion and Violence Prevention Post-graduate Program, of Preventive and Social Medicine Department of UFMG Medicinal School UFMG aims to describe the PROFILE of intimate partner violence against female users of Primary Health Care Units from Ribeirão das Neves, Minas Gerais. 628 users of SUS has been interviewed, being 469 female (73,74%). It was observed that in the female group, 7,2% reported physical abuse by intimate partner after 15 years old, of which 45,7% was recurrent aggression. As for sexual abuse, 5,2% from the interviewed reported to have been forced to engage sexual relations, of which 27,8% has been recurrent abused. Knowing the predisposing factors towards Violence Against Woman is indispensable to an effective action on women’s protection and violence prevention, as well as it guides the decisions on abused females health related measure.