RESUMOS
Intrafamiliar violence against children and adolescents: reflections on the care provided by nurses
This thesis results from a qualitative, exploratory study whose principle objective was to reflect about the care provided by nurses concerning the phenomenon of intrafamiliar violence against children and adolescents, investigating whether such inter/actions are permeated by loving care. The reference used to sustain the study constitutes of a literary texture about symbolic interactionism, violence, more specifically intrafamiliar violence, loving and caring. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with 11 nurses who work in public health and hospital services, as well as in support agencies for this segment of society. As an investigation involving human subjects, the project was examined and approved by the Ethics Committee of Federal University of Santa Catarina, and the participant nurses identities were preserved through code-names. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, systematized and analyzed following the qualitative data analysis method proposed by Minayo. In this analytic task the threads of the nurses speech, that is, the data, formed a fabric composed by three major categories: Recognizing the Phenomenon and the Family; Inter/Acting towards the Phenomenon; and Feelings towards the Phenomenon, which developed into subcategories. Through decomposition, comprehension, and interpretation, the threads of speech formed a fabric which showed that the nurses provide care towards the intrafamiliar violence against children and adolescents and that they provide care with love. The results configure a corpus of knowledge available to many other nurses who face real violence in their day-to-day living. Also, this study can subsidize the rethinking of public health policies, either by preventing the phenomenon, preserving and caring for the victims; or by promoting health. Such measures should lead to the urgency of including this issue in the curriculum of Nursing courses, as well as the education of all professionals who may provide future care for intrafamiliar violence against children and adolescents. The possibility for recognition and reformulation of nurses, concerning the view in which love is included in Nursing care is one of the contributions of the present study. By bringing visibility to loving care in this phenomenon, the results of this thesis will certainly bring intangible benefits to the victims themselves, their families, to professionals, and to society in general, from the point of view that love is an indispensable component to human living.
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
13 Sept 2007 -
Date of issue
Mar 2007
