A violência doméstica infantojuvenil na perspectiva dos agentes comunitários de saúde

• Autor(a) principal: Gebara, Carla Ferreira De Paula [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Lourenço, Lélio Moura, Ronzani, Telmo Mota [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1413-73722013000300006; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/7930
• topic: Family violence; focus groups; beliefs; Violência na família; grupos focais; crenças

This research aims at analysing the beliefs of Health Community Agents (HCA) from a city of Minas Gerais, Brazil, regarding Domestic Violence (DV) against children and adolescents. Research participants were all 30 municipal HCA who, at first, answered a self-administered, structured, particular and anonymous questionnaire. Later on, the HCA were invited to participate in a Focus Group. Qualitative data were then analyzed using the content analysis technique. The data indicated a strong tendency of respondents to consider alcohol and drugs as generators of DV against children and adolescents, as well as intra-family and relationship problems (lack of love and affection, lack of dialogue, lack of attention and lack of a family structure, for example). These results make clear the need to think about effective interventions at the institutional level because, in that specific searched space, neither a specific project to prevent and combat DV nor a policy aimed at training the HCA to deal with this sort of problem were developed.