title: [Intimate partner violence in pregnancy: identification of women victims of their partners].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify women in situations of violence by intimate partners during the current pregnancy among users of prenatal care services.
  
  
  METHODS
  Observational, cross-sectional study conducted from May 2012 to May 2013 in a prenatal service in Ribeirão Preto - SP, with 358 pregnant women from the 36th week of pregnancy. Data were collected through interviews. The adopted techniques and methods were univariate analysis, frequency distribution, measures of central tendency and variability, and the chi-square and Student's t-test.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Violence by an intimate partner during pregnancy was identified in 63 women (17.6%) aged between 15 and 42 years. Of the total, 39.7% were Catholic and 87.3% were non-smokers. Most of the women were unmarried and unemployed. Only 20 of the women felt they had suffered some form of violence during their lifetime.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results will enable the creation of strategies to recognize, intervene, where necessary, and support victims.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: Lisiane Camargo Quialheiro de
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: Mariana de Oliveira
authors.initials: Mde O
authors.lastname: Fonseca-Machado
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Materno-Infantil e Saúde Pública, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: Juliana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stefanello
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Materno-Infantil e Saúde Pública, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: Flávia Azevedo
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Gomes-Sponholz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D000066511:Intimate Partner Violence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D055815:Young Adult