Author:

• Ione Barbosa dos Santos - Santos, I.B - <ilubarsantos@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2513-7623

Co-author(s):

• Franciéle Marabotti Costa Leite - Leite, F. M. C - <francielemarabotti@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6171-6972
• Maria Helena Costa Amorim - Amorim,M.H.C. - <mhcamorim@yahoo.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4252-7092
• Paulete Maria Ambrosio Maciel - Maciel, P.M.A - <pauleteambrosio@yahoo.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2141-7732
• Denise Petrucci Gigante - GIGANTE, D.P - <denise.epi@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7309-5838

Abstract:

Objective: To estimate the prevalence and factors associated with intimate partner violence among primary care users. Method: Cross-sectional study with women aged 20 to 59 years. Physical, sexual and psychological violence was screened by the World Health Organization instrument. Poisson regression was used for crude and adjusted analysis. Results: 991 women participated. The prevalence of violence throughout the life span was: psychological 57.6% (95% CI: 54.6-60.7); physical activity 39.3% (IC95% 36.2-42.3) and sexual 18.0% (95% CI 15.7-20.5). Women with up to eight years of schooling, divorced or separated, whose mothers suffered intimate partner violence, who reported drug use and experienced sexual violence in childhood showed higher prevalence of three violence. Religion was associated with psychological and sexual violence and the use of cigarettes to physical and psychological violence. Participants with lower family income had higher prevalence of physical violence. Conclusion: high prevalence of intimate partner violence among users. Worse socioeconomic conditions, risk behaviors and history of aggression are associated to the greater occurrence of this aggravation.

Keywords:

Violence. Socioeconomic factors. Spouse abuse. Intimate partner violence. Domestic violence.

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