Prevalencia de lesiones craneocervicofaciales en niños que han sufrido maltrato físico reportado en la comisaría de familia de Floridablanca, Santander de 2014 a 2016

Abstract

Introduction. All children have rights as the physical, psychological and protection against any act of violence. The manifestations evidenced against them are numerous whether from physical punishment, cruel and dirty, by any person of their social environment, girls are the main object of violence whether physical, sexual or psychological, rather than children. The evidence indicates that only a part of the violence in boys and girls, is reported to the relevant authorities and investigated but few perpetrators prosecuted for these crimes. In Santander the most common type of violence is the neglect and abandonment, continuing with physical damage. The 75% of the cases presented in Santander are due to negligence, neglect or deprivation of basic needs; by following the physical assaults with a 12% of the cases; finally, we find the sexual violence with a 11% (4). Objective. To establish the prevalence of craneocervicofaciales injuries in children and Lesiones maxilofaciales en niños 6 adolescents abused who denounce it to the house of justice of Floridablanca. Methodology. This was an observational and descriptive cross-sectional study, for which took a total population of 251 expert reports that were in the house of justice of Floridablanca, between the years of 2014 to 2016, of children, adolescents and adults, 45 of these reports were for children under the age of 18, 183 women and 23 men. By means of a data collection instrument, were observed, measured and analyzed demographic variables related with the victim and the aggressor as the age, sex, education, background, occupation, kinship; variables with respect to the time of the complaint and with the type of injury found and the anatomical location where it was demonstrated. Results. In detailing the media related to the time of the denunciation of violence against minors, it was noted that the year of the greatest report of these was the 2014 with a 55.6%(25) a considerable amount with respect to the evaluated (Figure 1). In the same way it was demonstrated that the 37.8%(17) of the allegations were made in the first quarter of each year. Conclusions. The reason of femininity was a girl mistreated by each abused child to review all reports reported during the period evaluated.