Obstetric violence in the perception of multiparous women.

Objective: To know the perception of multiparous women about their experiences with obstetric violence.

Methods: Qualitative descriptive study carried out from January to May 2019 in basic health units in the city of Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul. Twenty multiparous women from the community participated in the study.

Social representations of Primary Health Care users about violence: a gender study.

Objective: To analyze the structure and content of social representations about violence by primary health care users.

Method: Qualitative study based on the Theory of Social Representations, carried out in Rio Grande health units with 150 people between January and April 2019 by applying free evocations and interviews, which were treated by using software and contextual analysis, respectively.

Results: Violence against people, violence, physical violence, substance dependence, and robbery made up the representation in the central core.

Social representations of nurses concerning domestic violence against women: study with a structural approach.

Objective: To analyse the structure and contents of the social representations of nurses concerning domestic violence against women.

Methods: This is a qualitative study conducted with 100 nurses between May and September 2014 in two hospitals of Rio Grande, RS, Brazil. Data were collected through evocations and semi-structured interviews.

Domestic violence against women: representations of health professionals.

Objective: to analyze the representations about domestic violence against women, among health professionals of Family Health Units.

Method: qualitative study based on the Theory of Social Representations. Data were collected by means of evocations and interviews, treating them in the Ensemble de Programmes Pemettant L'Analyse des Evocations software - EVOC and content analysis.

[The representations of adolescents about gynecological consultation].

Objective: To analyze the social representation of adolescents about gynecological consultation and the influence of those in searching for consultations.

Method: Qualitative descriptive study based on the Social Representations Theory, conducted with 50 adolescents in their last year of middle school. The data was collected between April and May of 2010 by Evocations and a Focal Group.

[The effects, beliefs and practices of puerperal women's self-care].

The objective of this exploratory-descriptive study was to identify the beliefs, effects and practices that permeate women's self-care during puerperium. The participants were fifteen puerperal women from Rio Grande/RS. Data collection was performed in September and October of 2010 using semi-structured interviews, performed between fifteen and thirty days postpartum.