Violence against black women: healthcare professionals' knowledge and practices

to analyze Primary Healthcare and Health Surveillance professionals' knowledge and practices in the face of violence against black women in the domestic context.

a qualitative, descriptive study, carried out in a municipality in the Metropolitan Region of Belém/Pará/Brazil. Thirty-four healthcare professionals participated, interviewed individually, with semi-structured script. The corpus was subjected to lexical analysis with Interface de R pour les Analyses Multidimensionnelles de Textes et de Questionnaires 0.7/alpha 2 using Descending Hierarchical Classification.

of the 34 participants, 24/70.59% were women and 12/35.29% were between 40-49 years old. Ninety-four text segments were identified, using 77/81.91%, divided into six lexical classes. Classes were organized into two thematic axes, presenting knowledge and care/management practices on the topic.

knowledge was based on the recognition of the unequal power relationship between genders, and practices revealed limitations, which may reinforce the vulnerability of black women in situations of violence.