La violència obstètrica com a forma de violència de gènere: revisió bibliogràfica
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Background: In today's society, natural and normal situations such as the process of childbirth
and pregnancy have become pathological, causing a paternalistic and hierarchical relationship
in the patient-doctor relationship, where all trust is placed to health professionals leaving
women in the process of childbirth as a background in terms of their dignity and autonomy.
This fact leads to conduct of action or omission of the appropriation of women's reproductive
bodies by health personnel, carrying out humiliations, dehumanizing and disrespectful
treatment, physical abuse, procedures without consent, lack of confidentiality, omission of
processes, and others.
Objectives: Identify the different procedures considered as obstetric violence and therefore
sexist violence during pregnancy and know the perception of women and health professionals
about obstetric violence.
Methods: The design of the research is a bibliographic review. The research was carried out
in the Scielo, Pubmed and CINHAL databases during the months of January to March 2021. A
total of 15 articles were obtained that have been included in this research after the inclusion
and exclusion criteria.
Results: A total of 15 articles were studied in this review. It has been divided according to the
perception of women, the procedures of obstetric violence and the perception of health
professionals.
Conclusions: The results obtained confirm that obstetric violence is a current discrimination
on the grounds of gender very prevalent around the world. It is such invisible violence because
of the paternalistic doctor-patient relationship that even women accept it and blame
themselves for poor care during childbirth and pregnancy. The lawsuits involve very violent
and abusive acts against women, who are not aware that it is a type of violence