Conceituações do termo “violência obstétrica” na área da saúde

Abstract

The main objective of this work was to answer the following question: Is there a common concept for the term obstetric violence in the health literature? Several information search databases were used, namely: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Medline (Pubmed), LILACS (via BVS), Google Schoolar, WHO database,Ministry of Health database. In each base, an adequate search strategy was used, since the ways of entering descriptors/keywords differed significantly. Due to the nature of our question, whose answer does not refer to a number, but to a concept, we felt the need to introduce a more generic search based on the following question: “What is obstetric violence?”. From the survey carried out at the bases, we were able to identify a significant number of findings that contemplate the concept of obstetric violence terminology. The results indicate that the term “obstetric violence” is more used in the context of Brazil and Latin America, referring to negligence and mistreatment of pregnant women, at any stage of pregnancy, from pregnancy to childbirth and the puerperium.