Bibliometric review of marital violence in women as part of Covid-19 confinement

Abstract

The confinement as preventive extent to avoid Covid-19 contagion brings a lot of problems of public health and one of them is the intimate partner violence, which generate serious and harmful consequences to the physical, psychological, social and economic health from the families and the society in general. The objective: identify the actual state of the scientific production around the intimate partner violence through confinement to avoid Covid-19, that takes place in the data base of Scopus, Scielo, Dialnet and Redalyc and is going to deliver results thanks to a bibliometric study. Materials and methods. The bibliometric study, descriptive, the sample was conformed for 20 articles that were posted and indexed in data bases like Scielo, Scopus, Latindex and Sciencia Direct. The results: the 40% and the 35,0% of the articles are posted in data bases like Scielo and Scopus, the more investigated theme were the emotional consequences caused in women by conjugal violence (50,0%), the studies focused in the quantitative approach (95,0%) and descriptive type (45,0%), the sampling wasn’t probabilistic in the majority of the studies (60,0%) and the most used technique were the questionaries and scales. The conclusion: the intimate partner violence still requires to be watched as a mix focus by the investigators.