Percepciones y prácticas de sexualidad de las mujeres en situación de acogimiento por violencia de género en el Cantón Cuenca

Abstract

The following research work is part of the complex environment in which health services operate. The current research work has been developed in order to identify the perceptions, feelings and emotions related to the practice of the sexual and reproductive health in women who have attended or been refugees in the women’s shelters after suffering gender violence and principally for the necessity of protecting their own lives in most of the cases. The nature of this investigation is both qualitative and quantitative. The likely interrelationship between gender based violence and attitudes and behavior in women sexuality is being analyzed in this study. In addition, the fact that gender based violence has been affecting women since early years of adolescence is being highlighted, and for this reason, two groups of women were examined in order to determine the possible similarities or differences relating to their sexual activity. The evident application of the current public policies related to the mechanisms in favor of the gender based violence and the direct and indirect claimants in this context. These informative data have been analyzed as strictly confidential according to the agreement made by the young women and the rest of the female participants; the name of the contributors have been omitted the same as the identification of the centers that willingly provided their contingent.