Rosália Garcia Neves, Tyele Goulart Peres, Tatiane Nogueira Gonzalez, Carine Nascimento da Silva, Ivana Goulart, Karla Pereira Machado, Mirelle de Oliveira Saes
Violence is a global public health problem that affects especially the most vulnerable people. The aim was to analyze the prevalence of psychological violence in the Brazilian population and inequalities according to sex and skin color. This was a cross-sectional study in which the database of the National Health Survey 2019 was used. Psychological violence was considered present when an individual answered yes to at least one of the five variables investigated: In the last 12 months, has anyone (a) offended you, humiliated you, or ridiculed you in front of other people?; (b) yelled at you or called you names?; (c) used social media or cell phones to threaten, offend, curse, or expose your images without your consent?; (d) threatened to hurt you or hurt someone important to you?; and (e) destroyed something of yours on purpose? The independent variable was skin color...
October 21, 2023: Journal of Interpersonal Violence