Violencia de pareja en estudiantes universitarias de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Católica de Cuenca. Periodo 2023

Abstract

Background: Violence against women constitutes a public health problem and a threat of violation of human rights in women. Objective: to determine the prevalence of intimate partner violence in female university students of the Law School of the Catholic University of Cuenca in the period 2023. Methods: Observational, descriptive, cross-sectional, descriptive study of 281 participants who met the inclusion criteria. Data were tabulated in SPSS version 20. The instrument used to assess intimate partner violence was the Conflict Tactic Scales (CTS-2). Measures of central tendency were used, such as mean with its dispersion measure, standard deviation, descriptive statistics with frequencies and percentages for the variables studied. Results: The results show that 59.4% of university women present intimate partner violence. The mean age was 22.08 years (SD ± 3.2). Psychological aggression was the most frequent type of partner violence (57.7%), followed by physical aggression (36.3%). The degree of severity of violence most frequently observed was minor psychological violence in 56.9% of the participants, followed by minor physical aggression with 33.8% of the students. Among the strategies to solve their conflicts, there is a high percentage of emotional negotiation and cognitive negotiation (87.2% and 86.1%, respectively). Conclusions: there is a high percentage of intimate partner violence among university women, with a greater impact of psychological and physical violence, which have been considered detrimental to women's mental health. The adoption of conflict resolution strategies predicts the low percentage of physical violence identified in this population