Social representations of physiotherapy students on domestic violence against women

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Giane Lopes
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Machado, Juliana Costa, Simões, Aline Vieira, Pires , Vilara Maria Mesquita Mendes, Vilela, Alba Benemérita Alves, Rodrigues, Vanda Palmarella
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/12896
• topic: Violência contra a mulher; Formação Profissional; Estudantes; Prática Profissional; Atenção à saúde.; Violence against women; Professional training; Students; Professional Practice.; Health care.; Violencia contra la mujer; Formación professional; Estudiantes; Práctica professional; Atención a la salud.

The study aimed to identify the social representations of physical therapy students about domestic violence against women. It is a qualitative research with a descriptive approach, based on the Theory of Social Representations, conducted at a public university in the interior of Bahia, with 141 university students from the undergraduate course in physiotherapy, in which the evocation technique was used free of words and, subsequently, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 participants. The evocations were processed in the EVOC 2005 software and interpreted through prototypical analysis and similarity analysis and semi-structured interviews through thematic content analysis. Physiotherapy course students have a negative structured representation on the subject, although some have an expanded view on domestic violence against women, most of them restrict their understanding only to the scope of physical aggression and psychological violence, this fact may impact on the development of their care practices. Physiotherapy students bring the thought that domestic violence against women is permeated by the domination of male power over women, based on a relationship of patriarchal values ​​with definitions of social and family roles for men and women. Thus, a transversal and holistic approach is needed in the training period, so that these future professionals can correctly handle cases of domestic violence against women.