Violência contra a mulher na percepção de profissionais da Atenção Primária à saúde: uma metassíntese qualitativa

Abstract

Objectives: To develop a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies on violence against women in the perception of Primary Health Care professionals (PHC). Methods: The systematic review was developed to answer the following question guiding principle: “What is the perception of health professionals (population) who work in Basic (context) in relation to women victims of violence (concept)? ”. The bases of Embase, Web of Science, PubMed (including MedLine), Scopus, Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS) and SciELO data were used as primary sources of study. The meta-synthesis analyzed the main categories and subcategories of all included studies. Results: The search in the database resulted in 6,764 records, and 25 of them were considered eligible for meta-synthesis. Five categories related to the perception of professionals in relation to violence against women women were identified: “Social representation of violence”, “Health care practices women ”,“ Limitations in the confrontation of violence against women ”,“ Feelings of professionals on violence against women ”and the“ Understanding of violence restricted to physical aggression and the influence of the socioeconomic context ”. Conclusions: The perception of information about abused women is related to the social construction of gender roles, socioeconomic context, limitations and facilitators of care that generate negative feelings about the phenomenon, moreover, understand that the identification of the violence is mainly linked to physical aggression.