Obstetric Violence Concept Analysis: Scoping Review
Creators: name: Ferrão, Ana
name: Zangão, Maria
name: Almeida, Vanda
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Nursing Midwifery

description: Aim: Analyze the concept of obstetric violence to women during parturition assistance. Introduction: Over the last decades, obstetric violence, has been highlighted in the political and social agenda of several countries, as an expression of the violation of women’s human, sexual and reproductive rights. During the new millennia, new policies, laws and protocols have been created in this regard, searching to humanize obstetric assistance, assuring rights and giving answers to one of the most unviable and naturalized forms of genre violence worldwide. However, the investigation reveals that a significant number of women worldwide are still exposed to various levels of abuse, disrespect, negligence and violence in healthcare institutions, during work parturition and parturition. Conversely, it is also evident there is a lack of consensus regarding which adequate terminology defines and nominates the absence of suitable and satisfactory assistance based on the respect of women’s dignity during parturition. Through this present revision, an analysis was made on the phenomenon of obstetric violence, with the attempt to better understand what encompasses disrespectful healthcare practices regarding birth. Scoping review methodology was used during throughout this analysis, as it was considered the best choice in situations where there is an interest in identifying, analyzing, reporting and discussing concepts. Inclusion Criteria: Quantitative and Qualitative studies which approach the dimension of obstetric violence and are available in the portuguese, english and spanish languages, of all types, whose population includes women with parturition experience in hospital environment, will be included in this study. A timeline limit was applied, considering only studies published over the last 5 years. Articles with a quality criteria of 75% or higher, using the JBI tool, were included. Exclusion Criteria: Articles whose full text is not available, will be excluded. Articles with a quality criteria of 75% or lesser, using the JBI tool. Methods: The search will be performed using the EBSCO search engine (selecting the CINAHL Complete and MEDLINE Complete databases), PubMed, Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde and SciVerse Scopus, using the research expressions [(obstetric violence OR abuse in childbirth OR disrespect and abuse in childbirth) AND (woman OR women) AND (parturition OR delivery OR childbirth OR birth)]. The studies matching the search results will be subject to the inclusion criteria. In the scoping review, the search result and the study selection process will be presented through a Scoping Review Prism® flowchart. The data extracted throughout the study analysis will be included on the result presentation, in table format. A summarized analysis on the research findings will be performed, in order to relate them to the defined investigation question. Key Words: Obstetric Violence; Woman; Parturition.