Biblioteca Virtual en Salud Enfermería

Violence in the family or domestic violence is defined by United Nations (1998) as those perpetrated in home or in domestic unit, generally by a family members living which the victims; this last one may be man or woman, child or adult. The study identifies facets of violence into the family brought by women to health services as well as its repercussions to health, compromising the development of self care. This study has a quantitative nature, utilizing for data collection interviews consisted in open and closed questions and were applied on August 1998 to 65 women participating on National Campaign for Uterine Colon Cancer Prevention promoted by Health Ministry in a community of Salvador. To identify violence in the family, the following variables were considered: emotional violence, sexual violence, destructive acts, violence compromising health and self care. It was verified that violence into the family affects 92,24% of interviewed women and among these ones emotional violence represents 90,9%, followed physical violence (48,5%), sexual violence (77%) and destructive acts (59%). As to health compromising, the search for gynecological support, 29% sustained this difficulty. We concluded that violence in the family is one of the factors compromising woman health and making difficult the incorporation of gynecological prevention as a routine exam...