Uma análise da violência contra a mulher na pandemia da COVID-19 no estado do Pará

Abstract

Violence is a serious public health problem, because the pain, suffering, loss of life and mutilation of millions of people worldwide are some of the effects that violence inflicts on its victims, whether men or women of differentage groups. To analyze the incidence of violence against women during the COVID-19 pandemic period in the state of Pará. This was a study of the ecological type of exploratory time series. The study population will consist of the records of domestic violence cases that occurred in the state of Pará, existing in the database of the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN), under the management of the Department of Epidemiology of SESPA, from 2018 to 2021. A total of 11,734 cases of violence against women in the state of Pará were recorded in the total study period. During the study period, 11,734 cases of violence against women were registered in the State of Pará. There was an almost for-fold increase in the number of cases, from 1,206 cases (2018) to 4,640 (2021). The majority of victims aged between 19 and 39 years, brown, single, with secondary education as schooling, mentally handicapped, living in urban areas. There was a predominance of cases in the victim's own residence with revictimization. Aggressor with record of alcohol use and mostly spouse. As for the type of violence, most were physical, followed by psychological. It is concluded that there was an increase in the number of occurrences of violence against women after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the state of Pará. This fact is rarely observed in practice, perhaps due to the lack of knowledge of the rights of the victim, that is, fear/dependence on the aggressor or even the difficulty in accessing the legal means necessary to achieve such measures. Therefore, the study addressed in this work shows the need to intensify efforts to combat violence against women in the state of Pará.