Obstetric Violence: Bibliometric Study in Hispanic American Scientific Journals

Abstract

Introduction. Obstetric violence can be defined as the different forms of mistreatment carried out by health professionals within the obstetric-gynecological processes. Scientific production on obstetric violence is currently on the rise, and it is very interesting to nursing. Objective. To analyze the scientific production on obstetric violence in Hispanic American journals. Methodology. Retrospective descriptive bibliometric study on the scientific production on obstetric violence. The extraction of the documents was carried out by searching the selected scientific databases using the thesauri obtained from the DECS and MESH sites. Results and Discussion. Thirty-nine documents on obstetric violence were selected. The bibliometric analysis categories used were database, year of publication, authorship, geographic scope and journal; in addition, methodological and content categories were analyzed, mainly the manifestations of obstetric violence and possible solutions to it. Conclusions. Obstetric violence is a growing topic in Latin American scientific journals. The quantification of its manifestations and the search for solutions to eradicate it is a common objective in all the publications, proposing, among other alternatives, training as the most effective method to put an end to this type of violence.