Method: qualitative research, developed through unstructured interviews with nine women in a Reference Center for Women, in the semiarid region of the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The interpretation of the results was based on the approach of Comprehensive Sociology and Daily Life in order to identify the underground centrality submerged in the daily life of the participants and which could emerge through their reactions from the experience of sexual abuse.Results: after interpretation, the results were grouped into the categories: Family life after the revelation of sexual abuse; The daily life of girls experiencing sexual abuse; and Repercussions of sexual abuse in the adult life of sexually abused women in childhood. The repercussions of sexual abuse were described as difficulties in family life, pregnancy, hypersexual behavior, prostitution, gender and sex contradiction, difficulties to have orgasm, drug use, low self-esteem, depression, self-destructive behavior, suicidal ideation and homicide.Conclusion: exposure to sexual abuse in the family context has impaired the physical and emotional health of girls and adolescents, as well as family coexistence, pointing to the need to adopt sensitivity and solidarity in the care of women with complaints that may be associated with experiences of sexual abuse.DESCRIPTORS: Adult survivors of child abuse; Sexual child abuse, sexual; Violence against women; Child; Family relationships; Activities od daily living. ABUSO SEXUAL NA INFÂNCIA E SUAS REPERCUSSÕES NA VIDA ADULTA RESUMO:Objetivo: compreender repercussões do abuso sexual na vida adulta de mulheres abusadas sexualmente na infância.Método: pesquisa qualitativa, desenvolvida com nove mulheres em um Centro de Referência da Mulher, na região do semiárido do Estado de Pernambuco, Brasil, através de entrevistas não estruturadas. A interpretação dos resultados foi fundamentada na abordagem da Sociologia Compreensiva e do Cotidiano, a fim de identificar a centralidade subterrânea submersa na vida cotidiana das participantes e que pudesse emergir por meio de suas reações a partir do vivido do abuso sexual.Resultados: após a interpretação, os resultados foram agrupados nas categorias: Convivência familiar após a revelação do abuso sexual; A vida cotidiana de meninas em vivência de abuso sexual; e Repercussões do abuso sexual na vida adulta de mulheres abusadas sexualmente na infância. As repercussões do abuso sexual foram descritas como dificuldades no convívio familiar, gravidez, conduta hipersexualizada, prostituição, contradição entre gênero e sexo, dificuldades para ter orgasmo, uso de drogas, baixa autoestima, depressão, comportamento autodestrutivo, ideias suicidas e homicidas.Conclusão: a exposição ao abuso sexual no contexto familiar prejudicou a saúde física e emocional de meninas e adolescentes, bem como a convivência familiar, apontando para a necessidade de adoção de sensibilidade e solidariedade no cuidado a mulheres com queixas que possam estar associadas a vivências de abuso sexual. Método: investigación cu...
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the affect of domestic violence among women who were burned by their husbands or partners. METHODS: A quantitative descriptive and exploratory study was used. The sample consisted of 35 young black women who had elementary or high school education. RESULTS: Domestic violence causes women to become sick, which leads to major psychological problems, including depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and suicidal ideation. Care of these women was focused on their physical injuries. CONCLUSIONS: There is a need to enforce public policies regarding domestic violence, and to train health care providers to recognize and provide quality care to victim of domestic violence, which include psychological effects.
Suicide attempt is characterized by complex and multifaceted phenomena with significance on global public health. The aim of this study was to grasp the structure of social representations of suicide of women with history of domestic violence and suicide attempt. The study was developed with a qualitative approach, based on the Theory of Social Representations. There were 30 women that responded the Free Word Association Test, all of them with history of domestic violence and suicide attempt by poisoning. Data were processed through the EVOC software and the results were grouped into three categories: core elements, intermediate elements and peripheral elements. The representation of women about suicide is related to life histories characterized by rejection and lack of love, which leads to disease, especially because of depression. The feeling of powerlessness in face of the need for change and release produce emotional problems that culminate in the decision of committing suicide.
Histórias de violência na infância na perspectiva de adolescentes grávidas* History of childhood violence in the perspective of pregnant adolescentsHistorias de violencia en la infancia en la perspectiva de adolescentes embarazadas
Objective: to understand the forms of resistance used by children and adolescent victims of sexual abuse in the everyday family routine. Method: qualitative research developed at an Assistance Center to Women in Situations of Violence in the semi-arid region of Pernambuco, with data collected between June and November of 2014 through interviews with nine women. The analysis process was based on notions of Comprehensive Sociology and Everyday Life, with data organized by affinity, interpreted and categorized. Results: the emerged categories: ritualization of sexual abuse of children and adolescents in the family routine: acceptance of destiny through passivity; Camouflage to survive the experience of sexual abuse: silence, astuteness and acting/pretending in order to escape abuse, Between hidden sexual abuse and The revelation of sexual abuse. It can be seen that episodes of abuse occurred in secret and under the threat of abusers through intimidating gestures or words. Victims did not confront them or call attention or ask for help, they used tricks like metaphors, laughs and ironic words, as well as ridiculing them with excuses, hiding, pretending to be asleep or fleeing to the street. Conclusion: the underground centrality present in sexual abuse triggered forms of resistance in opposition to the oppression generated by the abuser in which, in accepting that way of life, the participants developed different survival mechanisms, as well as participating in voluntary work, music and sports, these vents alleviate the burden of concealing the abuse.
This study aimed at analysing social representation of family relationships in the context of gender-based violence. This qualitative research was based on the Theory of Social Representations and it was conducted with 19 family members of women in the situation of gender-based violence, registered in Family Health Strategy units of Jequié, Bahia. Data was collected through a semi-structured interview between April and September 2014 and data organization was done according to the content analysis technique. The family members' social representations showed gender-based violence as a crime and the need towards actions to minimize its occurrence. They also indicated that gender-based violence results in illness of family members and as it is restricted to the private area of the house, it contributes towards its silence. Proper training of health, education and welfare services of the anti-violence network is urgent, observing public policies dealing with gender-based violence.
This quantitative study aims to evaluate pregnant adolescents in relation to socio demographic, gynecological and obstetric aspects and the experience of domestic violence. The subjects were 34 pregnant adolescents who got prenatal care in the city of São Francisco do Conde (Bahia, Brazil). Interviews were conducted. The majority of pregnant adolescents was between 16 and 19 years old and was single, black, non-educated, and financially dependent on parents or husband/partner, having initiated a sexual relationship before the age of 15. More than 40% declared a history of domestic violence. Some of them revealed the experience of domestic violence during pregnancy. In face of this reality, a professional look is necessary in order to recognize domestic violence as an aggravating factor to the health of these adolescents, a fact which has not been perceived in health care.
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