Grado de exposición a la violencia doméstica en niños de educación general básica media

Abstract

Domestic violence is an abuse of the use of physical force, psychological to sexual abuse, of one subject over another, which affects the integrity of the members of the family group (WHO, 2002). The exposure of children to this type of violence generates alterations in relation to behavioral, emotional, social, cognitive and physical development (Martínez, 2016). This paper seeks to describe the degree of exposure to domestic violence present in the home in children of general basic general education. This research responds to a quantitative approach, with a descriptive cross-sectional scope, for which the Scale of Evaluation of Child Violence Exposure to Domestic Violence (EIVF) was used (Edleson, Shin and Johnson, 2007). Participated, 85 sixth and seventh students of basic general education of the morning and evening day of the Unidad Educativa del Milenio Manuela Garaicoa de Calderón of the city of Cuenca. The results report shows that children have a low level of exposure to domestic violence 9.74 (SD = 7.8) over 99, the scales with the highest scores are those of other factors and the scale of exposure to violence in the community. In the form of exposure, 8.6% of children have been exposed to DV visually and 6.5% have been auditively exposed. It is concluded that the sample is not only exposed to domestic violence and that the form of exposure is to a greater degree visual.