Atravessamentos da pandemia - um estudo sobre a violência sexual infantil durante o isolamento social

Abstract

Violence results in issues that are diverse to society, such as emotional impacts on families, health, quality of life and interpersonal relationships. Specifically, sexual violence against children is a public health problem, with a high epidemiological incidence; it is complex and involves psychological, social and legal aspects. In this theme, the present research refers to a study of a descriptive and retrospective nature, with secondary data from the medical records of the children attended at the NUAVIDAS outpatient clinic. The objective was to outline the profile of the children attended at the service during May to August 2020, seeking to give visibility to the subject, with emphasis on the prevalence, absences and gaps in the care provided during this period of the pandemic. Thus, 49 medical records were searched for socio demographic data, characteristics of violence, outpatient care and relationships with the network. The contact and immersion in the content of these documents made it possible to assemble and organize the profile ofthechild who accessed the service, in the temporal and documentary cut, weaving a the teorical discussion with the relevant literature. There is a majority of girls, who suffer intrafamily violence, recurrently by the biological father, the mother's partner and grandfather. The mother or the maternal grandmother is the person who most often takes the child to the outpatient clinic, the violence being discovered by the child's own report, along with the perception of behavioral and physical changes by close people. Studies of this nature enable benefits for the network, the service itself, for the professional sinserted in it and, mainly, for those who use it, subsidizing preventive actions and promoting improvements, adaptations and reflections.