[Epidemiological, clinical and forensic physical violence against women in Tambacounda (Senegal)].
BACKGROUND
To contribute to the fight against physical violence against women, this work aimed to make a 10-year review of cases treated at the Regional Court of Tambacounda.


METHODS
This observational, retrospective, descriptive and analytical study was conducted from 15 October 2014 to 15 April 2015. It covered all the court records of victims of intentional injury from 2006 to 2015. The data was entered and analyzed using Epi info 3.3.2 software.


RESULTS
In all, 113 cases were treated. The mean age was 26.5±10.08 years for victims versus 32.5±13.8 years for the aggressors. The victims were all female, and 77.9% of offenders were male. The assaults took place mostly during the day (57.5%), and especially in the homes of victims (61.0%), in the street (16.8%) in the bush (12.4%). The consultation period was less than 24hours for 54.9% of the victims. Clinical examination differentiated: fractures (15%); contusions (13.5%); penetrating wounds (10.6%); bruises (9.7%); eye injuries (7.9%); broken teeth (7.9%); diffuse pains (7.1%), 6.2% polytrauma (6.2%), and 5.3% of trauma on pregnancies. Among the violence, 33.6% were domestic; 11.5% were associated with rape (7.1%); psychological violence (3.6%); rape and death threat (1.8%). Rape was statistically more common among child victims [OR=10.7 (3.2-35.5)] and/or educated victims [OR=5.8 (1.7-19.9)] and aggression in the bush [OR=7.5 (2.2 to 14.2)]. The attackers were lonely and imprisoned in 94.7% and 73.5% of cases respectively. The sentence was firm imprisonment for 89.2% of cases.


CONCLUSIONS
In Tambacounda, health and judicial authorities should enhance public awareness concerning the risk of violence. The extension of this type of study to the national level would have enabled better orientation of control strategies against this scourge.
Service de médecine préventive et santé publique, faculté de médecine, pharmacie et odontologie, université Cheikh Anta DIOP de Dakar, 16390 Dakar Fann, Sénégal. Electronic address: mamadou.leye@yahoo.fr.
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Service de médecine préventive et santé publique, UFR santé, université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, Saint-Louis, Sénégal.
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Médecin au centre de santé de Goudiry, Tambacounda, Sénégal.
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Service de médecine préventive et santé publique, faculté de médecine, pharmacie et odontologie, université Cheikh Anta DIOP de Dakar, 16390 Dakar Fann, Sénégal.
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Institut de santé et développement (ISED), université Cheikh Anta DIOP de Dakar, Dakar, Sénégal.
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Service de médecine préventive et santé publique, faculté de médecine, pharmacie et odontologie, université Cheikh Anta DIOP de Dakar, 16390 Dakar Fann, Sénégal.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D000066550:Physical Abuse / Q000145:classification / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011902:Rape / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012675:Senegal / Q000453:epidemiology; D014754:Violence / Q000145:classification / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D055815:Young Adult
Femme; Gender; Genre; Prevention; Prévention; Senegal; Sénégal; Violence; Woman