Eficacia de un programa de intervención para disminuir las consecuencias emocionales de las mujeres indígenas víctimas de violencia intrafamiliar en Gualaceo, 2011

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the efficiency of an intervention program to reduce the emotional consequences on indigenous women have been victims of domestic violence in Gualaceo town Methods and materials: It has been used an experimental design of repeated measures (before and after) of pretest-intervention-posttest, with a control group 112 participants were included (56 in the experimental group and 56 in the control group) who have been victims of domestic violence, with presence of Emotional Consequences according to the criteria of the questionnaire SRQ. The applied intervention program in group format was of five sessions (2 months), and including strengthening self-esteem, breathing, relaxation, assertive communication and techniques to problems solving Results: In the post-treatment, completed the intervention and by the Chi-square test it shows statistically with difference of 67.08 and p value of Fisher test of 0.000. Indicated that victims were significantly reduced, evaluated the emotional consequences: Depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts. The Implications were discussed of this study and findings for clinical practice in the future research. Discussion: The work results fully confirm the hypothesis, the program was effective for women who participated in the intervention, with problems of depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts, highlight the therapeutic of this intervention, and reinforce what was described in the written forms in relation to other studies.