Maltreatment: Perception of the dental surgeon in the face of the identification of child and adolescent violence

percepção do cirurgião-dentista frente a identificação de violência infanto-juvenil

Abstract

Objective: to evaluate the knowledge of dentists associated with the identification of child violence, relating this knowledge to the academic education of these professionals. Methods: For this project, an electronic Google forms questionnaire was used, it was sent through the Snowball Technique, with dentists as participants. Results: 37 professionals received the electronic questionnaire, four declined to participate in the study. The results revealed that, regarding the perception of violence, 67.0% related it to physical violence. The legal conduct after suspecting a case of interpersonal violence was to notify the guardianship council (76.0%), (21%) believe that it is not their responsibility to diagnose cases, (79%) did not receive information on how to diagnose interpersonal violence during graduation. Conclusion: Certainly, many professionals in the dental field did not have the opportunity to study cases of violence during graduation, because of this, they may face difficulties, both in making the diagnosis and on how to proceed in this situation.