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- Title
Reporting of violence against children and adolescents in a protective institution in southern Brazil.
- Authors
Arruda da Silva, Priscila; Lunardi, Valéria Lerch; Lunardi, Guilherme Lerch; Algeri, Simone; Souza, Tamara
- Abstract
Objective. This study aimed to analyze the reports of violence against children and adolescents in the period between January 2009 and May 2014 in a municipality protection institution of Rio Grande, RS. Methods. This is a descriptive and documentary study with a quantitative approach that analyzed 800 medical records of Specialized Reference Center for Social Assistance (CREAS), from the development of a research instrument containing the study variables. Results. The results show that 44.5% of the notifications sent to the protection of organs were carried out by family members and evidence of physical signs was the reason that triggered them (34%). The dismissing by abandonment of families is very present in the institution (36.9%), which possibly supports the maintenance of the cycle of violence. Conclusion. The results of this study show that although there were improvements regarding the notification by the family, the number of notifications made by the health and education sectors are still reduced, thereby increasing the need for more effective and articulated actions in these sectors.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; MANDATORY reporting (Law); DOMESTIC violence lawsuits; CHILD abuse lawsuits; ABANDONMENT (Psychology); VIOLENCE; DOMESTIC violence; RESEARCH methodology; NURSING; PUBLIC health laws; QUANTITATIVE research
- Publication
Investigacion & Educacion en Enfermeria, 2016, Vol 34, Issue 1, p152
- ISSN
0120-5307
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17533/udea.iee.v34n1a17