Objective: To recail abuse prevalence against women attended at Lima's South Cone obstetrical services and to establish association between violence and both maternal and perinatal pathology and perinatal mortality. Design: Analytical retrospective cohort investigation. Setting: Maria Auxiliadora Hospital and Cesar Lopez Silva Mother and Child Hospital, Villa El Salvador. Participants: Hospitalized puerperal women. Interventions: Between March and november 2005 we applied a survey to 7333 puerperal women before discharge from the hospital in order to identify the presence of violence against women. Answers were classified in three groups: without violence (30,7%), with violence history (37,4%) and with violence during this pregnancy (31,9%). Wereviewed the perinatal clinical history in each case and verified demographic variables as well as maternal and perinatal complications. We also d...

Objective: To recail abuse prevalence against women attended at Lima's South Cone obstetrical services and to establish association between violence and both maternal and perinatal pathology and perinatal mortality. Design: Analytical retrospective cohort investigation. Setting: Maria Auxiliadora Hospital and Cesar Lopez Silva Mother and Child Hospital, Villa El Salvador. Participants: Hospitalized puerperal women. Interventions: Between March and november 2005 we applied a survey to 7333 puerperal women before discharge from the hospital in order to identify the presence of violence against women. Answers were classified in three groups: without violence (30,7%), with violence history (37,4%) and with violence during this pregnancy (31,9%). Wereviewed the perinatal clinical history in each case and verified demographic variables as well as maternal and perinatal complications. We also d...