Obstetric violence: Hidden Territory, Silence, Roaring and fear in time of the Covid-19 Pandemic
International Journal of Development Research
Obstetric violence: Hidden Territory, Silence, Roaring and fear in time of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Received 26th November, 2021; Received in revised form 04th December, 2021; Accepted 17th January, 2022; Published online 20th February, 2022
Copyright © 2022, Simone Souza de Freitas. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In recent years, the emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases such as COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) has been the subject of great global social concern, not only due to morbidity and mortality, but also due to its social and economic impact. The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), responsible for the current pandemic characterized COVID-19. According to data from the Ministry of Health, pregnant women are among the risk groups for the disease.In the new context, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, during thegestation,childbirth and postpartum arises avobstetric violence wherethe woman's right to go through this period in a safe and dignified way is taken away. This is an integrative review of the literature on Obstetric violence hidden territory, silence, roar and fear in times of the covid-19 pandemic. The sample consisted of articles published in electronic media available in the Virtual Health Library (VHL) and available in full text in the databases: LILACS, Medline, SciELO and BDENF, in the period between 2020 and 2021. the continuous training of professionals so that they carry out all the assistance in a humanized way, thus reducing or even eliminating the complications that interventions can bring to women who are in a state of great vulnerability during childbirth. It is further emphasized.
