Conception of puerperal women about obstetric violence: Integrative review

Abstract

Objective: To describe the conception of puerperal women about obstetric violence. Method: This is an integrative literature review that used the PICo strategy. The search took place between November and December 2020 in the Virtual Health Library, Medline and SciELO, with a temporal cut of articles published from 2010 to 2020. Result: 12 articles were analyzed that met the inclusion criteria and answered the guiding question of the research. The analysis of the corpus made it possible to identify that most of the puerperal women are unaware of the term obstetric violence, a fact that obscures the identification that certain practices carried out in hospital units do not match the scientific evidence and can be considered as maltreatment. Conclusion: Among the factors that increase vulnerability to the occurrence of obstetric violence, one can consider the scarcity of health education actions during the prenatal period that enable the recognition of women's sexual and reproductive rights.