Violence against black women: healthcare professionals’ knowledge and practices - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

ABSTRACT

Objectives:

to analyze Primary Healthcare and Health Surveillance professionals’ knowledge and practices in the face of violence against black women in the domestic context.

Methods:

a qualitative, descriptive study, carried out in a municipality in the Metropolitan Region of Belém/Pará/Brazil. Thirty-four healthcare professionals participated, interviewed individually, with semi-structured script. The corpus was subjected to lexical analysis with Interface de R pour les Analyses Multidimensionnelles de Textes et de Questionnaires 0.7/alpha 2 using Descending Hierarchical Classification.

Results:

of the 34 participants, 24/70.59% were women and 12/35.29% were between 40-49 years old. Ninety-four text segments were identified, using 77/81.91%, divided into six lexical classes. Classes were organized into two thematic axes, presenting knowledge and care/management practices on the topic.

Final Considerations:

knowledge was based on the recognition of the unequal power relationship between genders, and practices revealed limitations, which may reinforce the vulnerability of black women in situations of violence.