Violence against the elderly: a documentary study
Objective: to associate the sociodemographic characteristics of elderly victims of violence and of the aggressors with types of violence. Methods: this is a cross-sectional, analytical, retrospective study developed in a police station. A total of 346 police reports were analyzed, and the statistica...
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| author | Miriam Fernanda Sanches Alarcon Daniela Garcia Damaceno Carlos Alberto Lazarini Luzmarina Aparecida Doretto Braccialli Viviane Boacnin Yoneda Sponchiado Maria José Sanches Marin |
| author_facet | Miriam Fernanda Sanches Alarcon Daniela Garcia Damaceno Carlos Alberto Lazarini Luzmarina Aparecida Doretto Braccialli Viviane Boacnin Yoneda Sponchiado Maria José Sanches Marin |
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| description | Objective: to associate the sociodemographic characteristics of elderly victims of violence and of the aggressors with types of violence. Methods: this is a cross-sectional, analytical, retrospective study developed in a police station. A total of 346 police reports were analyzed, and the statistical analyses of comparisons were made in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 25.0.0.0. Results: type of violence was positively associated with area of the city, sex, marital status, schooling, age, place of occurrence, legal basis, and form of notification of the victim. There was a predominance of financial violence among men, while other types of violence, white skin, presence of a partner, and the victim’s home as the place of occurrence predominated among women. There was a predominance of male aggressors. Conclusion: the police reports indicated the association of different sociodemographic data of victims and aggressors with the types of violence. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ed119f6acb1e4b09974d4fa668ae003f2022-12-21T23:19:44ZengUniversidade Federal do CearáRev Rene2175-67832019-10-0120e4145010.15253/2175-6783.20192041450Violence against the elderly: a documentary studyMiriam Fernanda Sanches Alarcon0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2572-9899Daniela Garcia Damaceno1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8656-009XCarlos Alberto Lazarini2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3010-4436Luzmarina Aparecida Doretto Braccialli3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9622-8629Viviane Boacnin Yoneda Sponchiado4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4527-6345Maria José Sanches Marin5https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6210-6941Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”Faculdade de Medicina de MaríliaFaculdade de Medicina de MaríliaDelegacia de Polícia de Defesa da Mulher de MaríliaFaculdade de Medicina de MaríliaObjective: to associate the sociodemographic characteristics of elderly victims of violence and of the aggressors with types of violence. Methods: this is a cross-sectional, analytical, retrospective study developed in a police station. A total of 346 police reports were analyzed, and the statistical analyses of comparisons were made in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 25.0.0.0. Results: type of violence was positively associated with area of the city, sex, marital status, schooling, age, place of occurrence, legal basis, and form of notification of the victim. There was a predominance of financial violence among men, while other types of violence, white skin, presence of a partner, and the victim’s home as the place of occurrence predominated among women. There was a predominance of male aggressors. Conclusion: the police reports indicated the association of different sociodemographic data of victims and aggressors with the types of violence.http://periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/41450/99448aged; aging; violence; health of the elderly; aged rights. |
| spellingShingle | Miriam Fernanda Sanches Alarcon Daniela Garcia Damaceno Carlos Alberto Lazarini Luzmarina Aparecida Doretto Braccialli Viviane Boacnin Yoneda Sponchiado Maria José Sanches Marin Violence against the elderly: a documentary study Rev Rene aged; aging; violence; health of the elderly; aged rights. |
| title | Violence against the elderly: a documentary study |
| title_full | Violence against the elderly: a documentary study |
| title_fullStr | Violence against the elderly: a documentary study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Violence against the elderly: a documentary study |
| title_short | Violence against the elderly: a documentary study |
| title_sort | violence against the elderly a documentary study |
| topic | aged; aging; violence; health of the elderly; aged rights. |
| url | http://periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/41450/99448 |
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