Resumen

VEGA, Gabriela; HIDALGO, Dinora  y  TORO MERLO, Judith. Violencia basada en género desde la perspectiva médica. Rev Obstet Ginecol Venez [online]. 2011, vol.71, n.2, pp.88-97. ISSN 0048-7732.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of gender´s violence in a group of women take at random in the General Hospital of the West during February - October of 2009. Setting: Hospital General del Oeste “Dr. Jose Gregorio Hernandez” de Caracas. Method: A descriptive, prospective and transversal study was done with 400 women chosen at random, they were included with previous sign of the voluntary consent inform, applying a survey as instrument. The data´s analysis was done applying descriptive procedures. Results: 266 women (66.5 % of the total) had suffer any kind of violence, more of one in some cases, predominating the psychological violence (66.25 %), follow by the physic violence (38.25 %), being women in second decade of age the most affected for all the types of violence. The most frequent aggressor was the present couple of the inquiry women by physic, psychological and sexual violence. In the group of pregnant women there were 61.06 % cases of violence. Around the half of women surveyed (52.25 %) know the mechanisms for accuse in case of be a violence victim, although only 20.3 % of the affected were accused any violence situation. Conclusions: Violence of gender is a public sanitary problem at world-wide level, and Venezuela don’t escape of this fact, being determinate by this investigation that mostly of the women has been battered at the long of their life’s, remembered that 3 of every 5 women has been victim of some kind of violence.

Palabras clave : Violence; Women; Violence of gender.