A violência no contexto da pandemia da COVID-19:: Análise das notificações compulsórias em saúde nas unidades hospitalares do estado de Pernambuco

Abstract

This is an exploratory research, with a qualitative and quantitative approach, whose objective is to carry out a critical-reflexive analysis of violence in the context of the pandemic based on compulsory health notifications in hospitals in the state of Pernambuco. The guiding question of the research was: “To what extent do the compulsory notifications of health violence in hospital units in the State of PE reveal such violence during the Covid-19 Pandemic?” Therefore, it started from the understanding that violence is an indicator of health problems and, therefore, its existence must be notified by hospital units so that coping policies can be formulated and executed. The research was elaborated from the quantitative and comparative analysis of the numbers of notifications of interpersonal/self-inflicted violence from the period before the pandemic and during the pandemic on the CIEVS-PE and DataSUS-PE platforms, in addition, the weaknesses of the notifications were investigated from from the bibliographic research combined with the researcher's practical experience in the multiprofessional residency in urgency, emergency and trauma. The results confirmed the research expectations indicating that violence increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, although notifications have decreased compared to the period before the pandemic, confirming the low number of notifications. Complementing the underreporting, other weaknesses were found, such as the problems that prevent health teams from carrying out the notification and that, consequently, lead to underreporting and the deficit in coping policies that are due, in part, to the statistics of notification of violence that do not reality is reliable. It was concluded that the reports of violence have important weaknesses, weaknesses that were intensified in. In this regard, it is indicated that problems related to notifications are addressed in order to effectively confront violence.