RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST HOURLY WOMEN AND SLEEPING PROBLEMS: OBSERVATIONAL STUDY
violence; gender; rural; woman; sleep
Violence is a phenomenon known worldwide and has a significant impact on interpersonal and group relationships. Socially, it has a subjective, systematic and triggering value of social conditions and, therefore, needs to be widely understood since it causes the most varied biopsychosocial impacts. The investigation of domestic violence, more specifically, in the peri-urban context is of scientific and social importance, considering the existence of few studies on gender relations experienced by women who reside and / or develop rural activities. Women who are victims of domestic violence are at risk of developing morbidities, with the possibility of resulting in sleep problems. In this sense, this study aims to evaluate the frequency and the relationship of domestic violence against women farmers and sleep problems. This is an exploratory, observational and descriptive study, with a quantitative approach. The study was carried out in 2 (two) female horticultural cooperatives, located in the Paraíso district of the municipality of Santa Cruz, in the interior of Rio Grande do Norte. For data collection, a sociodemographic characterization form was used, then the measurement instruments validated in Brazil were applied to screen for domestic violence and to assess sleep quality: the HITS-Brazil instrument, the Sleep Quality Index Pittsburgh (PSQI) and the Epworth Sleep Scale. For the analysis of quantitative data, the program Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS - version 22.0) was used. Descriptive analysis of the frequency distribution of categorical and numerical variables was performed. The normality of the distribution was determined by the Shapiro-Wilk test, for the descriptive analysis, the non-parametric Spearman correlation coefficient test was used. A significance level of 5% (p <0.05) was adopted. With the application of the HITS Instrument, we identified that 85.2% (n = 58) of the interviewees had no indication of experience of domestic violence, while 14.8% (n = 10) experienced this experience. Regarding the analysis of daytime sleepiness through the Epworth sleepiness scale score among the interviewees, 92.5% (n = 63) had little sleepiness, while 7.5% (n = 5) had excessive daytime sleepiness. With the results of the final PSQI score that evaluates sleep quality in relation to the last month, it was found in this sample that, 53.0% (n = 36) classified the quality of their sleep in the last month as good, 47, 0% (n = 32) as bad. Regarding the data correlation analysis, there was statistical significance between the variables HITS and Hours per day (rho = -0.295 and p-value = 0.014); HITS and Epworth (rho = 0.370 and p-value = 0.002) and HITS and PSQI (rho = 0.322 and p-value = 0.007). With the results of the study, a small number of women farmers who were victims of domestic violence was evident, however, considering the varied presentations of domestic violence, the present study suggests an association between domestic violence and excessive daytime sleepiness and an association between domestic violence and poor sleep quality. in the last month. It is hoped that this study will serve as a subsidy to promote discussions in horticultural women's associations to promote empowerment and health care.