VIOLENCE AGAINST ADULT WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES/DISORDER IN BRAZIL: MARKERS OF INTERSECTION

Abstract

People with disabilities/disorders become more susceptible to acts of violence due to the vulnerabilities of social structures. Thus, the objective of this study was to analyze aspects of violence against adult women with disabilities/disorders in Brazil. This is an analytical cross-sectional study with data from notifications of interpersonal and self-inflicted violence from the Diseases and Notification Information System in 2019 in Brazil. The profile of the female victims aged 20 to 59 years, with and without disabilities/disorders, was described. The association between the variables 'place of occurrence of violence' and 'having a disability/disorder' was verified using the chi-square test. Also, Poisson regression was conducted, with robust variance, to estimate the crude and adjusted Prevalence Ratio (PR), with a 95% Confidence Interval (95%CI), of the dependent variable 'having a disability/disorder' with the variables of the profile of the aggressor and with the variables of the types of violence. The significance level was set at 5%. There were 172,665 cases, 16.8% of which were for women with disabilities/disorders. Of these, 53.2% had mental disorders. The profile of women with and without disabilities/disorders was similar for white women aged 20 to 40 years and who had completed high school. The occurrence of violence at home was more frequent among women with disabilities/disorders (p ≤ 0.05). The profile of the aggressor of women with disabilities/disorders about those without disabilities/disorder was more prevalent for: female gender (PR = 1.041); no suspicion of alcohol use (PR = 1.009); and adults aged 20 to 24 years (PR = 1.061). Women with disabilities/disorders had a higher prevalence of aggression due to torture when compared to women without disabilities/disorders (PR = 1.013); sexual violence (PR = 1.034); financial (PR = 1.018) and self-inflicted violence (PR = 1.181); and lower prevalence of physical (PR = 0.969) and psychological (PR = 0.987) violence. A significant percentage of women with disabilities/disorders were victims of violence. The disability/disorder adds vulnerability to women, with particularities regarding the profile of the aggressor and a greater number of types of violence perpetrated against them.