Perfil epidemiológico de crianças e adolescentes vítimas de violência atendidos no hospital da criança e do adolescente em Macapá de 2015 a 2019

Abstract

Violence against children and adolescents is currently configured as a public health problem, considering the various traumas caused in different dimensions of the human being, whether physical, psychological or social, that require different forms of care at all levels of health, such as in the creation of new public policies that allow the identification of risk factors that caused this problem, among them, the creation of new strategies that allow from the complaint to the recovery of the victims' mental health. The objective of this work is to analyze the epidemiological profile of violence against children and adolescents attended at the Children and Adolescents Hospital in Macapá from 2015 to 2019. This is research with a quantitative, descriptive, retrospective and documentary approach, carried out at a public hospital in Macapá. The sample comprises 122 participants between zero and 12 years of age. Among the main results, children and adolescents who have suffered some types of violence are mostly female, aged between zero and 12 years old, are children of separated parents, belong to the lower class, lived in urban areas, and how much the type of violence predominated sexual violence, and some were the result of a sexually transmitted infection. it can be deduced that violence causes negative results for its victims, hence the great importance of describing the characteristics of this population so that prevention and follow up can be found.