"Violência perpetrada por companheiros íntimos às mulheres em Celaya-México" / Violence perpetrated by intimate partners against women in Celaya-Mexico

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2004

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Women have been victims of violence by their partner, with acknowledged repercussions on their health. The realization of nursing practices in communities revealed the violence phenomenon, as well as the women’s attitude of submission and abnegation. These situations served as a motive to carry out this research. This study aimed to: 1-describe the profile of women seeking care at CENAVI-Intrafamily Violence Victim Care Center, who suffer violence from their intimate partner and 2-identify the physical, psychological and social violence against these women and its relation with their self-esteem. We interviewed 300 women who were victims of violence and turned to CENAVI between November 2003 and April 2004. 2 instruments were used for data collection: the QIVM- Questionnaire for the Identification of Violence in Women and Janis and Field Self-Esteem Scale. The project was approved by the Bioethics Committee in Celaya/Mexico. Data were collected at CENAVI- Mexico with the women’s free and informed consent. Interviews took between 25 and 30 minutes. The sociodemographic profile discloses a sample of 300 women between 16 and 65 years, 66% of whom were married. 75% marked that they were with the same partner. There were women from all educational levels and 88% were catholic. We adopted the mean value as a general rule to identify the frequency of the three kinds of violence and the level of self-esteem, with values below mean value representing the presence of violence and low levels of self-esteem, and calculated the theoretical and observed values of violence types and self-esteem. Spearman’s test was used to determine the existence and relation between the variables (physical, psychological and social violence and self-esteem) and the results indicate their correlation. We used multivariate regression analysis of the study variables. On the basis of the results of these analyses, we compared how long these women had lived together with their partners with the 3 kinds of violence. The theoretical values were compared with the observed values in order to identify whether the mistreated women’s self-esteem is somehow related to violence suffered by somebody they live with (mistreated woman’s mother and partner’s father as a mistreating man). Data point out that the longer the women live together with their partner, the greater the violence they suffer. Moreover, the results for the questions "is (was) your mother mistreated by your father?” and "is (was) the father of your partner an aggressor?”, revealed that greater violence is registered in these questions, related to lower levels of self-esteem. We observed the existence of violence in these Mexican families, according to literature as well as the study results; however, the women prefer to omit what happens to maintain family integrity, which is highly valued by society. Nursing actions can occur at the three care levels. We recommend that nurses work in an interdisciplinary way and, through the therapeutic interrelation, offer the care that helps women who are victims of violence.

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violência violence enfermagem woman mulher nursing

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