title: [Women interned due to aggression at an emergency hospital: the (in)visibility of violence].
abstract: This is a cross-sectional study that aims to characterize the hospitalization of female victims of aggression at Hospital de Pronto Socorro de Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, over the year 2005. The data collection was done through the analysis of the records of women above 18 years old who had been victims of aggression. The analysis was described through the use of Epi-Info Software, with the categorization of the events and the crossing of descriptive variables and absolute and relative frequency indexes. Over the studied time frame, 73 women, victims of aggression, entered the hospital; 49.3% of them were between the ages of 18 and 29; 41.1% were assaulted with firearm and 37% with white weapon. In nearly all records, data were incomplete or lacked registrations at all, an indication that many cases of aggression were not identified during the hospitalization time and that the treatment was restricted to physical lesions.
authors.affiliation: Hospital São Camilo, Esteio, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
authors.forename: Michele Mazza
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Ilha
authors.forename: Sandra Maria Cezar
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Leal
authors.forename: Joannie dos Santos Fachinelli
authors.initials: Jdos S
authors.lastname: Soares
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005260:Female; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014754:Violence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult