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Mulheres cuidando de mulheres: um estudo sobre a Casa de Apoio Viva Maria, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

2000; Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz; Volume: 16; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0102-311x2000000300023

1678-4464

Stela Nazareth Meneghel, Marcia Camargo, Lúcia R. Fasolo, Dioga Ana Mattiello, Renata C. R. da Silva, Teresa Santos, Ana Lúcia Dagord, Adriana С Reck, Luciana Zanetti, Márcia Sottili, Maria Angela Teixeira,

Child Abuse and Trauma

This research was conducted in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, with a sample of battered women selected from a government shelter called the "Casa Viva Maria". We analyzed data on 110 women staying at the shelter during the previous two years (January 1996-June 1998). The profile of the women was as follows: abused women were young (mean age 29 years), all had low socioeconomic status, 12% were illiterate, 21% were black, 80% reported frequent abuse by their partners, and 18% had returned to violent homes. The researchers visited 34 former lodgers from the shelter and invited them to participate in a series of evaluation workshops. A total of 118 persons, including mothers and children, attended three evaluation meetings. During this process, researchers encouraged participants to express opinions, perceptions, and feelings about their past experience in the shelter and their own concept of violence. Finally, a focal group was organized with the "Viva Maria" staff members. Female workers reported how their job had been helpful for their personal development and had helped change their own lives.