Epidemiological Profile of the Victims of Sexual Violence Treated at a Referral Center in Southern Brazil.

Objective:  To characterize the sociodemographic profile of women victims of sexual violence treated at a university hospital in southern Brazil.

Method:  The present cross-sectional study included all female victims of sexual violence who attended the sexual violence unit at the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA, in the Portuguese acronym) from April 18, 2000 to December 31, 2017. Data were extracted from the electronic record of the patients and stored in a standardized questionnaire database with epidemiological aspects of the victim, the perpetrators and the type of aggression.