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0290/2017 - Violence against adolescents in Brazilian capitals, according to survey in emergency services.
Violências contra adolescentes nas capitais brasileiras, segundo inquérito em serviços de urgência.

Author:

• Deborah Carvalho Malta - Deborah Carvalho Malta - Brasília - <dcmalta@uol.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8214-5734

Co-author(s):

• Regina Tomie Ivata Bernal - Bernal, R.T.I. - <reginabernal@terra.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7917-3857
• Fabricia Soares Freire Pugedo - Pugedo, FSF - <fabriciapsf@gmail.com>
• Cheila Marina de Lima - Lima, Cheila Marina de - <cheila.lima@saude.gov.br>
• Márcio Mascarenhas - Mascarenhas, Márcio - <mdm.mascarenhas@gmail.com>
• Alzira Oliveira Jorge - Jorge, AO - <alzira.o.jorge@gmail.com>
• Elza Machado de Melo - Melo, EM - <elzammelo@hotmail.com>


Abstract:

The study describes the characteristics of the violence practiced against adolescents, attended at emergency and emergency services participating in the Surveillance of Violence and Accidents (VIVA) survey, in 2014, and to analyze possible associations between the variables. We analyzed data815 adolescents in the sample and used the correspondence analysis, which consists of an exploratory analysis, was used to identify variables associated with violence against adolescents. The aggression practiced against the adolescents had more frequent male victims, the means of aggression used was the firearm and sharp object. In the age group of 15 to 19 years, the occurrences practiced in the public roads predominated, by unknown aggressors and injuries like fractures and cuts predominated. Among the victims between 10 and 14 years old the place of occurrence was in the school, the aggressor was the friend, through threats. Among the female victims, the occurrences were more frequent in the residence. It is concluded that violence involving adolescents permeates the most important socializing institutions: the family, the school. Thus, it is important to mobilize the whole society in the perspective of its confrontation.

Keywords:

violence, adolescent, aggression, external cause, surveillance, epidemiology.

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Deborah Carvalho Malta, Bernal, R.T.I., Pugedo, FSF, Lima, Cheila Marina de, Mascarenhas, Márcio, Jorge, AO, Melo, EM. Violence against adolescents in Brazilian capitals, according to survey in emergency services.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2017/Sep). [Citado em 22/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/violence-against-adolescents-in-brazilian-capitals-according-to-survey-in-emergency-services/16342?id=16342&id=16342



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