Mirta Romero’s research while affiliated with National University of Asuncion and other places

Este estudio fue realizado con el objetivo de examinar e identificar la presencia de indicadores específicos de abuso sexual infantil (ASI) a través de test gráficos de niños y niñas de entre 5 y 12 años de edad, en base a los hallazgos de los 7 indicadores de Boscato. Fueron evaluados los dibujos de 40 niños y niñas con ASI y 40 niños y niñas sin ASI como grupo control, de sectores vulnerables del Departamento Central y Asunción, provenientes de instituciones que otorgan asistencia a niños y niñas, debido al contexto de pandemia por Covid-19. Los resultados mostraron una diferencia significativa e importante de presencia para 6 de los 7 indicadores gráficos de ASI (excepto el indicador registro somático) en el grupo de casos en comparación al grupo control, correlacionándose con el diagnóstico de abuso sexual infantil.

Violence is a form of social relation causing a deep damage in the psycho-social development of people in the expression of their multiple capacities and comprehensive mental health. The objective was to characterize gender violence in adult male and female patients of the outpatient service of the Department of Psychiatry.: Cross-sectional descriptive study that analyzed 254 clinical records of patients that received psychotherapy care between 2010 and 2013. Most patients were female, 70.1% (178); from the capital, 48% (121); single 65.3% (166); 37% (93) was between 19 to 25 years old and 29% (73) between 26 to 35 years, 27.5% (70) suffered psychological violence, 5.5% (11) physical violence, 21% (54) psychological and physical violence, 3.5% (9) sexual abuse, 10.6% (27) sexual abuse, physical and psychological violence, 3.1% (8) sexual abuse and psychological violence, 2.4% (6) others combinations, 5.1% (13) no type of violence, 22% (56) without information at the time of the study. There was association between being a woman and abuse victim (p=0,0011) and parent violence (p=0,02) and a trend between being a man and suffering neglect (p=0.008).: Male and female patients suffered different forms of violence. There was clear gender violence in female victims of abuse and in men violence outside of the domestic environment.