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Ítalo de Macedo Bernardino1, Kevan Guilherme Nóbrega Barbosa2, Lorena Marques da Nóbrega1
1Departamento de Odontologia da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba - Campina Grande (PB), Brasil.
Objective::
The aim of this study was to describe the profile of violence against women in different life cycles, according to the sociodemographic characteristics of the victims and offenders.
Methods::
A cross-sectional and exploratory study was performed based on 1,388 police reports during a four-year period, in a metropolitan area of Northeast Brazil. The dependent variable was the type of aggression suffered by the victims. The independent variables were sociodemographic characteristics of the victims and offenders. Statistical analysis included the χ2 test (p < 0.05) and the decision tree analysis, through the Chi-squared Automatic Interaction Detector (CHAID) algorithm.
Results::
Cases of physical abuse (n = 644) were the most common, followed by threat (n = 415) and verbal aggression (n = 285). The violence profiles could be explained by the relationship between victims and offenders (p < 0.001) and age of the victims (p = 0.026 in Node 1; p = 0.019 in Node 3).
Conclusion::
It was observed that women in different stages of life are more exposed to different types of violence.
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