Violência obstétrica: um olhar holístico para uma realidade silenciada.

Abstract

Violence against women presents itself in different forms and contexts, and one of them has been very present and unidentified: obstetric violence. Violence in parturition care is a serious problem for women's health. This violence is a result of the very precariousness of the health system, which also considerably restricts access to the services offered. In this way, the objective was to analyze the acts in the parturitive process considered as obstetric violence in puerperal women. This is an exploratory field research study, with a qualitative approach. It was developed at the Maternity Dr. Deodato Cartaxo, located in the municipality of Cajazeiras-PB, in order to achieve the expected goal. Sampling was composed of 25 puerperae vaginal delivery who were being treated at the maternity hospital and who accepted to participate in the study. Data were analyzed using a qualitative approach. The research was approved by the Ethics and Research Committee of the Federal University of Campina Grande. With regard to the data relevant to the study, it was possible to verify that obstetric violence is linked to the care provided by professionals, which has become commonplace and often imperceptible to those who suffer, making it necessary for women to know more and more about this issue and to appropriate their rights. Although obstetric violence is something that predominates in health actions, humanization, although still idealized, is essential to change this scenario, and must be present in actions and health institutions. In this way, it is necessary to have a more critical and analytical look at this subject, making it become widely known and women to be able to identify obstetric violence more easily, seeking and claiming their rights to have free assistance of any discriminatory, vexatious and / or inhumane act.