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[Exposure to violence among adolescents in a low-income community in the northeast of Brazil]. / Exposição à violência entre adolescentes de uma comunidade de baixa renda no Nordeste do Brasil.
Moreira, Deborah Pedrosa; Vieira, Luiza Jane Eyre de Souza; Pordeus, Augediva Maria Jucá; Lira, Samira Valentim Gama; Luna, Geisy Lanne Muniz; e Silva, Juliana Guimarães; Machado, Maria de Fátima Antero Sousa.
Afiliação
  • Moreira DP; Escola de Saúde Pública do Ceará, Centro de Educação Permanente em Vigilância da Saúde, Fortaleza, CE, 60165-090. deborahpm@gmail.com
Cien Saude Colet ; 18(5): 1273-82, 2013 May.
Article em Pt | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23670455
This a cross-sectional study made in Fortaleza, Ceará, 2009, which included 458 teenagers and analyzed their exposure to violence, describing their access to weapons, alcohol abuse, illegal drug use and their self-esteem by investigating their socio-economic, school and family characteristics and exposure to the phenomenon. A questionnaire and/or structured interviews were used for data collection, and analysis involved Pearson's chi-square test, with 95% reliability. Of the 458 participants, 17.7% were considered to be exposed to criminal violence. Significant variables for exposure to violence included: place of birth (p = 0.020), years of schooling (p = 0,009), school absenteeism (p < 0.001), the father as the head of the family (p = 0.026), alcohol-addicted parents (p < 0.001), good/very good family relationships (p = 0.009), and parents' dissatisfaction with their children's friends (p < 0.001). Thus, it is necessary that public policies focus on a support network for care of adolescents and that urban centers organize themselves socially and politically in the quest for understanding the effects of exposure to violence among adolescents in low-income communities.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Pobreza / Violência Tipo de estudo: Etiology_studies / Observational_studies / Prevalence_studies / Qualitative_research / Risk_factors_studies Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude Limite: Adolescent / Child / Female / Humans / Male País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: Pt Revista: Cien Saude Colet Ano de publicação: 2013 Tipo de documento: Article País de publicação: Brasil

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Pobreza / Violência Tipo de estudo: Etiology_studies / Observational_studies / Prevalence_studies / Qualitative_research / Risk_factors_studies Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude Limite: Adolescent / Child / Female / Humans / Male País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: Pt Revista: Cien Saude Colet Ano de publicação: 2013 Tipo de documento: Article País de publicação: Brasil