Violência sobre a pessoa idosa: um estudo documental

• Autor(a) principal: Alarcon, Miriam Fernanda Sanches
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Damaceno, Daniela Garcia, Lazarini, Carlos Alberto, Braccialli, Luzmarina Aparecida Doretto, Sponchiado, Viviane Boacnin Yoneda, Marin, Maria José Sanches
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/47098
• topic: Idoso; Envelhecimento; Violência; Saúde do Idoso; Direitos dos Idosos

Objective: to associate the sociodemographic characteristics of elderly victims of violence and of the aggressors with types of violence. Methods: this is a cross-sectional, analytical, retrospective study developed in a police station. A total of 346 police reports were analyzed, and the statistical analyses of comparisons were made in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 25.0.0.0. Results: type of violence was positively associated with area of the city, sex, marital status, schooling, age, place of occurrence, legal basis, and form of notification of the victim. There was a predominance of financial violence among men, while other types of violence, white skin, presence of a partner, and the victim’s home as the place of occurrence predominated among women. There was a predominance of male aggressors. Conclusion: the police reports indicated the association of different sociodemographic data of victims and aggressors with the types of violence.