Avaliação da interface dos diferentes tipos de violência provocada pelo parceiro íntimo contra a mulher

Abstract

Goals: to evaluate violence interfaces against women caused by intimate partner, in a county of the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study of 470 women aged 18-83 years old, performed in 53 Basic Health Units (BHU) and five Basic Reference Units (UBRs) of Ribeirão das Neves, Minas Gerais. Quantitative data were stored in a database using SPSS software. For the presentation of the results of the study, we used simple and cross-frequency tables, chi-square test of homogeneity and correspondence analysis. Results: Among the 470 women interviewed, 255 reported to have suffered some kind of violence caused by their partner or former intimate partner. Among these women, 57 suffered the three types of violence (physical, sexual and psychological) concomitantly; 96 suffered psychological and physical violence; 14 were sexually abused and suffered psychological violence. Conclusions: the study showed a high prevalence of various types of violence against women and showed that rarely a woman suffers only one type of violence, which has not been perceived yet by a large part of the Brazilian population.