title: [Violence against women in the perspective of community health agents].
abstract: The current study has the objective of learning and understanding how Community Health Agents conceptualize, develop and perform strategies to counter violence against women attending the Family Health Strategies in a northeastern municipality of Rio Grande do Sul. It is an exploratory research, utilizing a descriptive and qualitative approach, carried out with 35 Community Health Agents. Semi-structured interviews were performed to collect the data, which were analyzed using the thematic model. Conceptions of violence against women are centered around violence as a social construction based on gender inequalities and on violence as having a multifactorial construction. Regarding care practices and interventions to counter violence, the following tools are highlighted construction of intervention strategies within the staff forming bonds, listening and dialogue with the women victims of violence; and directing victims to support services. We believe that this study contributes to the visibility of this theme as a need in health care, as well as for the construction of strategies to counter it.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós Graduação em Enfermagem--UFRGS, Pesquisadora e integrante do Grupo de Pesquisa em Saúde Coletiva (GESC/UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. lilianhesler@yahoo.com.br
authors.forename: Lilian Zielke
authors.initials: LZ
authors.lastname: Hesler
authors.forename: Marta Cocco
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: da Costa
authors.forename: Darielli Gindri
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Resta
authors.forename: Isabel Cristina dos Santos
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Colomé
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001938:Brazil; D003150:Community Health Workers / Q000523:psychology*; D003469:Culture; D017579:Domestic Violence; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008571:Men / Q000523:psychology; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012380:Role; D012945:Social Values; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D018454:Spouses / Q000523:psychology; D014505:Urban Population; D014754:Violence; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology