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Epidemiological Profile of the Victims of Sexual Violence Treated at a Referral Center in Southern Brazil

Objective  To characterize the sociodemographic profile of women victims of sexual violence treated at a university hospital in southern Brazil. Method  The present cross-sectional study included all female victims of sexual violence who attended the sexual violence unit at the Hospital de Clínicas...

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Autores principales: Santarem, Michelle Dornelles, Marmontel, Mariane, Pereira, Nathália Lima, Vieira, Letícia Becker, Savaris, Ricardo Francalacci
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Revinter Publicações Ltda 2020
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10309235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32992357
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1715577
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author Santarem, Michelle Dornelles
Marmontel, Mariane
Pereira, Nathália Lima
Vieira, Letícia Becker
Savaris, Ricardo Francalacci
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Marmontel, Mariane
Pereira, Nathália Lima
Vieira, Letícia Becker
Savaris, Ricardo Francalacci
author_sort Santarem, Michelle Dornelles
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description Objective  To characterize the sociodemographic profile of women victims of sexual violence treated at a university hospital in southern Brazil. Method  The present cross-sectional study included all female victims of sexual violence who attended the sexual violence unit at the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA, in the Portuguese acronym) from April 18, 2000 to December 31, 2017. Data were extracted from the electronic record of the patients and stored in a standardized questionnaire database with epidemiological aspects of the victim, the perpetrators and the type of aggression. Statistical analysis was performed using the chi-squared test for trend and descriptive statistics with 95% confidence interval (CI). Results  During the length of the study, 711 women victims of sexual violence were treated. The mean age of the patients was 24.4 (±10) years old (range from 11 to 69 years old) and most of the victims were white (77.4%), single (75.9%) and sought care at the unit within 72 hours after the occurrence (80.7%). In most cases, violence was exerted by a single perpetrator (87.1%), who was unknown in 67.2% of cases. Victims < 19 years old showed a higher risk of not using contraception (relative risk [RR] = 2.7; 95% CI = 1.9–3.6). Conclusion  Most victims of sexual violence were treated within 72 hours of the occurrence. The majority of these victims were white and young, and those < 19 years old had a higher risk of not using contraception and to know the sexual perpetrator.
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spelling pubmed-103092352023-07-27 Epidemiological Profile of the Victims of Sexual Violence Treated at a Referral Center in Southern Brazil Santarem, Michelle Dornelles Marmontel, Mariane Pereira, Nathália Lima Vieira, Letícia Becker Savaris, Ricardo Francalacci Rev Bras Ginecol Obstet Objective  To characterize the sociodemographic profile of women victims of sexual violence treated at a university hospital in southern Brazil. Method  The present cross-sectional study included all female victims of sexual violence who attended the sexual violence unit at the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA, in the Portuguese acronym) from April 18, 2000 to December 31, 2017. Data were extracted from the electronic record of the patients and stored in a standardized questionnaire database with epidemiological aspects of the victim, the perpetrators and the type of aggression. Statistical analysis was performed using the chi-squared test for trend and descriptive statistics with 95% confidence interval (CI). Results  During the length of the study, 711 women victims of sexual violence were treated. The mean age of the patients was 24.4 (±10) years old (range from 11 to 69 years old) and most of the victims were white (77.4%), single (75.9%) and sought care at the unit within 72 hours after the occurrence (80.7%). In most cases, violence was exerted by a single perpetrator (87.1%), who was unknown in 67.2% of cases. Victims < 19 years old showed a higher risk of not using contraception (relative risk [RR] = 2.7; 95% CI = 1.9–3.6). Conclusion  Most victims of sexual violence were treated within 72 hours of the occurrence. The majority of these victims were white and young, and those < 19 years old had a higher risk of not using contraception and to know the sexual perpetrator. Thieme Revinter Publicações Ltda 2020-09-29 2020-09 /pmc/articles/PMC10309235/ /pubmed/32992357 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1715577 Text en The Author(s). This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, permitting unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction so long as the original work is properly cited. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Vieira, Letícia Becker
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title_sort epidemiological profile of the victims of sexual violence treated at a referral center in southern brazil
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1715577
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