Epidemiological profile of interpersonal and self-inflicted violence in Porto Velho: Covid-19 pre and transpandemic notifications

• Autor(a) principal: Gomes, José Felipe de Freitas
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Orfão, Nathalia Halax, Moura, Gisele Teixeira de Souza, Lasmar, Caio Ismael de Jesus
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Baiana de Saúde Pública (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://rbsp.sesab.ba.gov.br/index.php/rbsp/article/view/3602
• topic: Agressão; Crime; Violência; Vítimas de crime; Covid-19; Agresión; Crimen; Violencia; Víctimas del crimen; Covid-19; Aggression; Crime; Violence; Crime victims; Covid-19

Violence is a complex, multicausal phenomenon which results in pain, suffering and consequences for the victim, affecting public health. Thus, this cross-sectional quantitative study describes the epidemiological profile of interpersonal and self-inflicted violence in Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil, from 2009 to 2021. Data were collected from the records (number of cases, victim profile, occurrence, probable aggressor and referral) in Tabnet through the Notifiable Diseases Information System of the Unified Health System, and later analyzed by descriptive statistics. A total of 3,136 cases of interpersonal and self-inflicted violence were reported, of which most victims were female, mixed race, with incomplete 5th to 8th grade, between 10 and 14 years old, and the place of occurrence was the residence, with repetition of the aggressors, predominating physical violence and bodily force/beating. The likely aggressor was the person themself, not suspected of alcohol use, was an adult, and there was no record of the victim’s referral. These findings show that interpersonal and self-inflicted violence mainly affect victims in their most vulnerable life cycles (childhood and adolescence), in the place where they should feel welcomed and protected.