Violência conjugal: um fenômeno interacional

Repercussions of imprisonment for conjugal violence: discourses of men 1

Objective: to know the consequences that men experience related to incarceration by conjugal violence. Methods: qualitative study on 20 men in jail and indicted in criminal processes related to conjugal violence in a Court specialized in Family and Domestic Violence against women. The interviews were classified based on Collective Subject Discourse method, using NVIVO(r) software. Results: ...

Violence against women, Espírito Santo, Brazil

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence and factors associated with psychological, physical and sexual violence in women victims of intimate partner violence assisted in the primary care services. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study, conducted in 26 health units in Vitória, State of Espírito Santo, from March to September 2014. We interviewed 991 women aged 20-59 years. To classify the psych...

[Conjugal violence: clinical significance].

Conjugal Venereal Granuloma

The rarity of venereal granuloma in married couples is usually brought forward as a point in favour of the non-venereal origin of the disease. It appears that no authentic instance of conjugal granuloma has so far been reported in the literature. We have seen several cases of conjugal disease during the past five years and, in view of the recent articles on the subject in the Gazette, and the c...

Conjugal amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a disease characterized by progressive degeneration of motor neurons in the motor cortex, brainstem, and spinal cord. The incidence of sporadic ALS is 1.5 to 2.7 in 100,000, and the prevalence is 5.2 to 6.0 in 100,000. Conjugal ALS is even rarer than sporadic ALS. We report a case of conjugal ALS encountered in our outpatient neurology clinic.