INTRAFAMILY VIOLENCE WITNESSED AND EXPERIENCED BY SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Carla Cristina Oliveira de Jesus
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Martins, Ridalva Dias, Gomes, Nadirlene Pereira, Cruz, Moniky Araújo da, Gomes, Nadjane Rebouças, Silva, Keile Kemyly Assis da, Corrêa, Ritieli Mallagutti
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Cogitare Enfermagem (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufpr.br/cogitare/article/view/87295
• topic: Violence; Family; Adolescent; Adolescent Health; Students.

Objective: to identify the forms, expressions, and the practitioners of intrafamily violence witnessed and/or experienced by adolescent students.Method: cross-sectional, descriptive study conducted in a public school in Salvador, Bahia - Brazil, with 230 adolescent students in November 2018. The database was archived using the Microsoft Excel program, and frequencies were measured using the chi-square test.Results: the study shows that 121 (52.6%) adolescents experience intra-family violence in psychological, physical, and sexual forms. Among the types of violence experienced by the adolescents, psychological (49.5%) and physical (55.7%) violence were most perpetrated by father/mother and sexual (75.9%) violence was commonly reported by other relatives.Conclusion: the findings of this study contribute to give visibility to the forms of expression of intrafamily violence experienced and witnessed by the child and youth population.