Estrategias de prevención de la violencia intrafamiliar en adolescentes usuarios de un centro de salud en la ciudad de Guayaquil

Abstract

Domestic violence is an underlying issue within Ecuador's societal culture, where adolescents are silent victims of its short, medium, and long-term consequences, affecting their quality of life by making it difficult to see beyond maladaptive ways of coping with trauma. To understand its scope, this work analyzes the variables that comprise possible triggers of domestic violence in Ecuadorian families, warning signs, consequences, treatment from an integrative perspective and intervention through a cognitive-behavioral approach. For this purpose, a methodology with a qualitative approach, explanatory scope, and non-experimental design was applied. Among the instruments used, the abbreviated Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ-SF) stands out, which results revealed that, at the group level, participants had low levels of exposure to emotional abuse, moderate levels of physical abuse, low levels of sexual abuse, low levels of emotional neglect, and low levels of physical neglect, while in the levels of denial of violence experienced within the home, null levels predominated. It is noteworthy, however, that 50% of the total sample tested positive for exposure in one or more subscales of abuse and/or neglect. Taking these results into account, interventions were carried out by focusing on psychoeducation, support networks and identification of resources available in the community, with the aim of creating awareness about domestic violence and how it manifests, promoting healthy relationships and providing coping tools for difficult times, in order to prevent this problem in their environment.