Violência vivenciada pelas adolescentes em situação de rua: bases para o cuidado de enfermagem pela cidadania

• Autor(a) principal: Carinhanha, Joana Iabrudi
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/11352
• topic: Woman health; Violence against woman; Homeless youth; Health education; Community health nursing; Saúde da mulher; Violência contra a mulher; Menores de rua; Educação em saúde; Enfermagem em saúde comunitária; Enfermagem na saúde e higiene da mulher; Educação sanitária; Menores abandonados Aspectos da saúde; Adolescentes (Meninas) Aspectos da saúde; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM

The object of this study is the violence experienced by the female adolescents in street situation. The excluded children and adolescents condition characterizes an old issue which reflects and is also a reflection of an unfair social and economic order. This problem involves many different forms of violence. The society proposes laws of protection to the children and adolescents; however it is not able to carry them out. In this context, the particularities of being a young woman in street situation appear, qualifying the violence to which she is exposed: she is an adolescent, woman, living in street situation. The comprehension that violence prevents these adolescents from fully exercising their citizenship as well as it makes their health vulnerable, has led to the following objectives: understanding the dimension of the violence experienced by female adolescents in street situation; and analyzing the problem of the violence and its consequences over the lives of these female adolescents in street situation (aiming at taking care of them within the citizenship perspective). Therefore, we have developed a descriptive-exploratory research in the qualitative form. This study was carried out with semi-structured interviews with eleven female adolescents from a public shelter of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). The results produced were interpreted with the content analyses method. Two categories have come out of this process. In the first one it is evident that violence is strongly present in the female adolescents lives. And that includes their relationships within the family, the community or the shelter group. One can see a certain acceptance of the violence that occurs in some circumstances in these areas as well as the ethics which is also there. In the second category, the consequences of the experienced violence appear: antisocial behavior which makes them either victims or authors of violence; and their feelings towards the violent reality they experience. This category also brings the strategies that they use to copy with violence as well as the ones that they expect the others to use in their care. In conclusion, it was possible to verify that the female adolescents understanding of violence is limited and concrete. It refers to what they live and doesn t achieve the complexity of the phenomenon, revealing a naïve consciousness. The experienced violence reflects on their physical and mental health in a short and in a long term. The suggested care strategies refer to the dialogical actions in various areas (family, school, shelter). This perspective opens new doors to the nurse s work an educator in the essence of their practice, particularly in two spheres: the direct assistance to the female adolescents and their families; and the organization of partnerships for the net work (health, education, social assistance, justice), considering the social support which already exists and the one that has to be developed in the intersectorial, interdisciplinary and team work. This leads to the necessity to review the public health policies related to the practice of the nurses in the shelters and the streets. Finally, we recommend the formation of nurses sensible to the health questions of this social group as well as we suggest that the education becomes care in itself.