Domestic violence profile against women served in a reference center
International Journal of Development Research
Domestic violence profile against women served in a reference center
Received 22nd September, 2018; Received in revised form 09th October, 2018; Accepted 06th November, 2018; Published online 31st December, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Cecília Danielle Bezerra Oliveira 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: to characterize the profile of domestic violence against women attended at a Reference Center. Methods: documentary study, exploratory and retrospective study with a quantitative approach, presenting a sample of 255 tokens corresponding to the period from 2010 to 2016. Data were analyzed in SPSS - version 21, using descriptive statistics of relative and absolute frequency, trend central (average) and dispersion (standard deviation), and the results discussed through literature on the subject. Results: There was a prevalence of women with incomplete elementary school, age between 30 and 39 years, white, household and unpaid, married and with children. All the victims knew the aggressor, being the husband the main perpetuator of this violence and the aggression occurred in the majority of the cases in his residence, the main one of them was the physical violence. Conclusion: the importance of preparing professionals and subjects in general to prevent new cases of violence against women is highlighted.
