Child and youth violence: socio-demographic profile of victims attended at children´s and adolescents´hospital in macapá-amapá (2015 – 2019)
International Journal of Development Research
Child and youth violence: socio-demographic profile of victims attended at children´s and adolescents´hospital in macapá-amapá (2015 – 2019)
Received 17th August, 2021; Received in revised form 17th September, 2021; Accepted 09th October, 2021; Published online 23rd November, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Darleine E Joseph et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to assess the epidemiological profile of violence against children and adolescents treated in a public hospital at Macapá from 2015 to 2019. METHOD: This is a research with a quantitative, descriptive, retrospective and documentary approach, from the collection of data from medical records. RESULTS: 122 medical records of victims of child and youth violence were evaluated, the age range was from zero to 12 years, with a higher prevalence of children aged 8 to 11, brown color (71.21%), female (81.15%) and residents of the urban area (73.77%). As for the type of violence, sexual violence predominated (89.34%) followed by physical and psychological/moral violence (21.31% and 18.03%, respectively). CONCLUSION: The data presented in this study suggest that violence against children and adolescents treated in the public hospital of Amapá’s state capital has determinant characteristics to understand the etiology of child violence.
