Violência sexual entre adolescentes escolares do município do Rio de Janeiro: análise da Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde do Escolar (PeNSE), 2015

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to describe and analyze the prevalence of sexual violence among students in the ninth year of elementary school in the city of Rio de Janeiro, based on data from the 2015 National School Health Survey (PeNSE). general profile of students according to demographic data (sex, age, race/color, self reported), socioeconomic (maternal education, presence of parents at home, administrative dependence of the school: public or private), and sexual and reproductive health (access to information at school about sexuality). The prevalence of sexual violence was obtained from the question: “Have you ever been forced to have sexual intercourse?”, with the answer categories “Yes” and “No”. The frequencies by authorship of the violence were estimated, based on the question: “Who forced you to have sexual intercourse?”. The prevalence of sexual violence in the city of Rio de Janeiro was 3.0%, similar to the national average (4%), in agreement with the literature, which indicates values between 5-20% varying according to the method and population of study. Considering the administrative dependence of schools, 3.8% was the percentage of students from public schools and 1.7% of students from private schools forced to have sexual intercourse. In public schools, 4.1% was the percentage of girls who reported some episode of forced sexual intercourse, against 3.5% of boys. This context highlights the need to include the debate on gender and sexuality in regular education, as well as the monitoring of the health situation of schoolchildren, aiming to understand the complexity and dynamics of social changes that this age group is subject to. It is expected that the data will contribute to subsidizing public policies on sexual violence, as well as supporting health, safety, education, parents and community professionals in the search for measures to fight and prevent this type of violence.