La violència obstètrica com a forma de violència de gènere: revisió bibliogràfica

Garcia Torroja, Susana
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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 ​
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