Mensuração do conhecimento de estudantes de medicina e enfermagem sobre a temática da violência obstétrica

Abstract

Obstetric violence is still an issue in health services. Even though the instruction given by Health Sciences schools is becoming adept at approaching this issue, many professionals are agents and patients of attitudes defined as violence against pregnant women, women in labor and women who have recently given birth. In this context, investigating the knowledge of students in Health courses in relation to the topic is extremely relevant. The main objective of this paper is to measure the knowledge of students on Medicine and Nursing courses at the Federal University of Fronteira Sul/Campus Chapecó on the topic of obstetric violence through the application of an assessment instrument on the topic. This is a quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive and exploratory study carried out using an evaluation instrument developed by the authors, which contains three blocks of questions about the identification of participants and the topic of obstetric violence. A descriptive analysis of the data was carried out, for each variable that makes up the blocks. All analyzes were carried out using Stata 18 software. Among the main results found, it is worth highlighting that approximately 77% of participants had contact with the topic of obstetric violence prior to the research, with this contact being mainly through external reading. Most students currently find the topic important for their education and have expressed interest in delving deeper into the topic. Comparing the groups, Medicine students obtained a higher average number of correct answers on the evaluation instrument compared to Nursing students, which may denote greater knowledge on the topic among the former. Finally, it is noteworthy that there is good knowledge of the theme of violence on the part of the participating students, which may indicate that the topic is both addressed in the context of the course subjects and sought out by students through external reading. However, further studies on the topic need to be carried out to further clarify how the topic of obstetric violence should be approached in the context of courses in the area of Health Sciences.