Perfil comportamental e emocional de mulheres grávidas vítimas de violência inferido com auxílio de ferramenta computacional

Abstract

Violence against women is a problem that each day gains more space in debates, actions and research from various perspectives. This paper addresses the issue from an interdisciplinary approach and aims to identify, using a computational tool and interview with digital questionnaire, facial expressions and behavioral traits of pregnant women attended at health units in the municipality of Ananindeua, in order to trace psycho-behavioral patterns denoters of violence at the same time seek indications of the development of post-traumatic stress disorder among those who have a picture of violence. To reach this goal, a proprietary computational tool was developed, which was called the Women’s Health Observer Tool (WHOT), which was very promising in terms of handling the digital questionnaires used in the interviews, recording the facial expressions of the interviewees, inferring the emotions manifested on the face of each one along the questionnaires and to establish connections between emotions and the answers given, thus contributing to trace the behavioral profiles. Considering the main study on which this research was based, WHOT was able to indicate evidence of the occurrence of IPV, ACE and PTSD in pregnant women, which corroborates its importance for the discovery and better treatment of the victim; it also proves to be a promising assistive device for health professionals to intervene efficiently and effectively in the care of victims.