Detección de violencia invisible y factores asociados de género en las estudiantes de la carrera de Enfermería de la Universidad de Cuenca. Cuenca 2024

Abstract

Background: gender-based violence is a complex problem facing the world, and of course our country, becoming one of the main lines of action of the Ministry of Public Health (MSP); which is linked to social precepts that have taken place in the university context. Objective: to detect invisible gender violence and associated factors in the students of the Nursing Career of the University of Cuenca in 2024. Methodology: descriptive study, with 153 students of the Nursing Career of the University of Cuenca. The Q-IVAW questionnaire of subtle violence was applied. The information was processed SPSS version 25. Frequencies and percentages were used, and Chi square and Odds ratio were used to measure the relationship of sociodemographic variables with subtle violence. Results: students aged 20 to 39 (99.3%), single (85%), distributed in the three years, the couple’s age was mostly 20 to 39 years, with a higher level (73.2%). Subtle violence was occasionally present in 24.8 per cent and often in 7.2 per cent. 68 per cent have almost never suffered from invisible violence. Conclusions: invisible violence, although not a large proportion is present in the surveyed students. It showed a significant relationship with the year of studies, as this increases the subtle violence increases. The rest of the sociodemographic variables showed no significant association with subtle violence.