title: How do primary health care professionals deal with pregnant women who are victims of domestic violence?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to determine how Family Health Strategy professionals recognize and deal with domestic violence in pregnant women.
  
  
  METHODS
  qualitative study based on the Theory of Praxis Intervention in Collective Health Nursing (TIPESC). Fourteen professionals at a Basic Health Unit in the east side of Sao Paulo/Brazil were interviewed. Empirical data were categorized and discussed in thematic groups. For data analysis was used the technique of Discourse Analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  we identified low number of reported cases of domestic violence; lack of education and training of health care professionals; failure in the identification and intervention process due to bias on their personal problems, moral attitudes and prejudice against these women. In addition, the study showed that their labor process was based entirely on the biological aspects of the women and to overcome this, they need of proper rapport between health care professionals and pregnant women to deal with of domestic violence.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  professionals should develop skills to intervene in violence against pregnant women and also modify labor processes considering women in their totality and part of society.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Dora Mariela
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Salcedo-Barrientos
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Psicologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Paula Orchiucci
authors.initials: PO
authors.lastname: Miura
authors.affiliation: aff3.
authors.forename: Vanessa Dias
authors.initials: VD
authors.lastname: Macedo
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Emiko Yoshikawa
authors.initials: EY
authors.lastname: Egry
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D017579:Domestic Violence; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011247:Pregnancy; D011320:Primary Health Care; D036301:Qualitative Research