Violência entre parceiros íntimos: busca de ajuda por mulheres vítimas

Abstract

The violence implies in a problem that concerns social intercourse and public health, being associated to countless causes and circumstances. Its impact can be worldly perceived in many ways. As a kind of violence, there is the intimate partners violence, which includes: acts of physical aggression, forced relations, psychological abuse and behavior control. The violence against women causes devastating emotional consequences and severe damage to health. In this specific situation, the victim tends not to search for aid. The scope of this study consists in identifying, in a community sample taken from two neighborhoods of Juiz de Fora, if women involved in IPV searched for any kind of help, besides of relating ways of intervention proposed by the victims. The methodology refers to a descriptive, transversal and qualitative study with a brief quantitative perspective. As the main results, there is the psychological violence as the most quoted; 44% of the women stated that they wheter did nothing, ignored or cried while being under aggression; and 68% of them never searched for help. The possibility of solving the problem within the partnership wais the most quoted reason for the lack of looking for aid. The formal law support to women victims of IPV was the most quoted by them as a way of help. Taking in consideration the complexity of such problem, the prevention of new cases and fighting the current ones is a true challenge.