title: [Violence against women and family medicine].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  prevalence of violence against women in Mexico fluctuate within 30 to 60%, but health and court administration institutions' numbers are under real ones, they only include extreme violence or pressed charges against them aggressor.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To asses the level of knowledge on the norms and procedures for the attention of domestic violence in family practitioners workers of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social in Colima, México.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional study was conducted during the September-December 2005 period. The indicator was obtained of a self-administered questionnaire. The data collection instrument was design to asses the level of knowledge in five areas: definition, norms, classification, risk factors and domestic violence indicators. An knowledge index was constructed and analyzed using frequencies distribution and percentages.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The age average was 41 years; medical practice 20 years. 72% men, 28% women; 91% had sentimental couple; 53% was family medicine specialist and 2% mastery; 53% worked in the morning shift and 47% in the evening one. The 91% didn't know the Mexican official norm; 91% without training on domestic violence, 74% ignored the types that exist; 76% ignored the cycles; 63% didn't register it as diagnostic in the clinical file; 52% know that the integral attention health registration leaf has a specific item for this problem. The average of guessed right answers was of 19 (range 15-24).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The level of knowledge on the norms and procedures for the attention of domestic violence in family practitioners workers of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social in Colima, México; was low degree in 0%, moderate in 81% and highly in 19%.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Medicina Familiar núm. 11, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Colima, México.
authors.forename: Urbicio
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Venegas Ochoa
authors.forename: Esteban
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Muñoz Pérez
authors.forename: Alhondra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Navarro Solares
authors.forename: Bertha Lidia
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Nuño Gutiérrez
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Navarro Núñez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018585:Battered Women / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires