Violence toward woman from the part of her couple. Mental Health Center. Aguada de Pasajeros, 2014

Abstract

Introduction: violence affects one of every three women some time in her life. When it is caused by her couple it becomes a destructive fact, generating tension, anguish and danger for her life.
Objective: to characterize violence toward women from the part of her couple in the cases attended at the Mental Health Center of Aguada de Pasajeros, province of Cienfuegos, during 2014.
Materials and methods: a cross-sectional, descriptive research was carried out in 45 women attended at the Mental Health Center of Aguada de Pasajeros, province of Cienfuegos. The used techniques were documental analysis, interviews, tests for detecting the kind of violence, and tests for diagnosing violence in the couple.
Results: ages between 26 and 35 years predominated for a 46,6 %. According to the scholarship, high school prevailed, with 46,6 %. A 66,6 % of consensual unions were found. 46,6 % of women worked as technicians. Physical and social violence was found in the total of women, the sexual one in 15 women, and the economic one in 38. Most of them (23) were exposed to a second degree of violence. The prevailing feelings were guiltiness, solitude fear and a link of violence with alcohol consumption.
Conclusions: sexual, economic, physical and psychological violence was found in the studied women, in different levels, from a violent relationship to a dangerous violence. The second level of violence and erroneous beliefs on the genre roles of the abused women and the violent men prevailed.