Facial Injuries and the Gender Issue: Expressions of Violence in a Metropolitan Region of Northeastern Brazil
| Autor: | Raquel Conceição Ferreira, Efigênia Ferreira e Ferreira, Sérgio d'Avila, Gigliana Maria Sobral Cavalcante, Ítalo de Macedo Bernardino, Lorena Marques da Nóbrega |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Facial trauma
Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Facial bone Violence Logistic regression 03 medical and health sciences violence 0302 clinical medicine gender and health Statistical significance Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine maxillofacial injuries General Dentistry Facial Injuries Crime Victims 0505 law Retrospective Studies business.industry Aggression 05 social sciences Medical jurisprudence Retrospective cohort study Odds ratio social sciences medicine.disease 050501 criminology Female medicine.symptom business Brazil Demography |
| Zdroj: | Brazilian Dental Journal v.31 n.5 2020 Brazilian Dental Journal Fundação Odontológica de Ribeirão Preto (FUNORP) instacron:FUNORP |
| ISSN: | 1806-4760 |
| Popis: | The aims of this investigation were to describe the profile of men and women victims of violence and identify factors associated with the severity of facial trauma. A retrospective study was carried out from 762 records of victims attended at the Institute of Legal Medicine and Dentistry located in a metropolitan region of Northeastern Brazil. The dependent variable was type of facial trauma suffered by victims. Independent variables were the sociodemographic characteristics of victims, characteristics of aggressors and circumstances of violence. Descriptive, bivariate (c2 test) and multivariate statistics were made through logistic regression. Level of significance was set at p < 0.05. The mean age of victims was 29.78 years (SD=13.33). Based on the final regression model, male subjects [odds ratio (OR)=2.22, 95% CI=1.08-4.57, p=0.030], assaulted by other male subjects (OR=4.88; 95% CI=1.12-21.26; p=0.035) through instrument (OR=6.67; 95% CI=2.85-15.60; p |
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