Development of Common Mental Disorders in women in situations of sexual violence: an integrative review

Abstract

The aim was to identify, from the scientific literature, the common mental disorders developed in women in situations of sexual violence. It is an integrative literature review, whose databases were accessed: Virtual Health Library, service of the U.S National Library of Medicine of the National Institute of Health and Discovery Service (via CAPES portal). The search for the data took place in January 2019, using the keywords associated with the Boolean operator AND: "sexual violence" AND "woman" AND "common mental disorder", "sexual violence" AND "woman" AND "mental health” AND “Sexual violence”AND “women” AND “common mental disorder”. Articles in Portuguese, English and Spanish were searched. According to the evaluation, complete articles were selected that confirmed the initial hypothesis: there is a significant association between sexual violence and the development of common mental disorders, especially Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.