Traumas maxilofaciais decorrentes de violência física contra mulheres registrados no hospital de Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (HC-UFU) nos anos de 2020 e 2021

Abstract

"Violence against women" is the action against a female person, solely and exclusively for her condition as a woman. In acts of physical violence, it has been observed that an important portion of victims have maxillofacial lesions, and the literature presents the face as one of the main affected areas in the woman's body. The present study aimed to identify maxillofacial traumas in episodes of physical violence against women reported in HC-UFU in the period between 2020 and 2021, during the pandemic scenario of COVID-19. This was a cross-sectional descriptive study, carried out through the analysis of medical records of the HC-UFU. Inclusion criteria in the sample, happened through the medical records selection of women victims of violence who were admitted to the HC-UFU, between 2020 and 2021, through the emergency room or who were admitted to the institution, and received healthcare by the teams of surgery and traumatology bucomaxillofacial, otorhinolaryngology, plastic surgery and general surgery. The final sample size (N) was 55 medical records. The analysis was carried out using descriptive statistics, which corresponded to the calculation of absolute frequencies and percentages. Pearson's chi-square test was applied for qualitative variables. The mean age of the victims was 34.1 years, body force was the most adopted means of aggression, the place with the highest frequency of violent acts was the victims' residence, mainly from their partners, being the typification of domestic violence the most prevalent. All patients had damage to the soft tissue, most of them presenting association of injuries. In hard tissue, nasal fracture followed by mandibular fracture were the most reported.