• Sao Paulo Med J · Jan 2023

    Knowledge and attitudes of rural healthcare providers regarding domestic violence against women: a systematic review.

    • Cláudio Tarso de Jesus Santos Nascimento, Maria Tereza Campos Vidigal, Vinícius Henrique Ferreira Pereira de Oliveira, Raquel Porto Alegre Valente Franco, Walbert Andrade Vieira, Adriana de-Jesus-Soares, Rafael Rodrigues Lima, Ademir Franco, and Luiz Renato Paranhos.
    • MSc. Physical Educator, Doctoral student, Postgraduate Program in Dentistry, Universidade Ceuma, São Luís (MA), Brazil.
    • Sao Paulo Med J. 2023 Jan 1; 142 (3): e2022682e2022682.

    BackgroundSpecific types of violence such as intimate partner sexual violence and intimate partner homicide occur more frequently in rural areas.ObjectiveThis study aimed to systematically review the literature on the knowledge and attitudes of rural healthcare providers regarding cases of domestic violence against women.Design And SettingSystematic review developed at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia.MethodsWe conducted an electronic search of six databases, which only included observational studies, regardless of the year, language, or country of publication, except for studies that used secondary data and were exclusively qualitative. Two reviewers performed the selection, data extraction, and risk of bias assessment using a specific Joanna Briggs Institute tool.ResultsSix studies met the inclusion criteria. All the studies had a low risk of bias. Approximately 38% of these professionals identified injuries caused by violence in patients. When asked about knowing the correct attitude to take in cases of confirmed violence, between 12% and 64% of rural healthcare providers answered positively; most of them would refer to specialized institutions and promote victim empowerment and counseling. The number of professionals with an educational background in the field ranged from 16% to 98%.ConclusionsThe evident disparity across studies shows that some professionals have suboptimal knowledge and require training to adopt the correct attitude when identifying female victims of domestic violence in clinical practice.Systematic Review RegistrationThis systematic review was registered in the Open Science Framework Database under the registration http://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/B7Q6S.

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