Keywords
Child abuse
Child neglect
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Abstract
Objective: To analyze the number of cases of child abuse during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This is an integrative literature review, qualitative and exploratory. The following Boolean descriptors and operators were used: Child Abuse AND COVID-19, in the electronic databases PubMed, Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde and Scielo. Results: It was evidenced, mainly, cases of family violence, and a scenario of increase of physical violence, of unemployment, corroborated, of an abrupt change in the family routine, of child abuse, and of a significant change of underreporting, of abuse, violence, child., sexual and infantile absence, due to the familiarity of reporters. Final considerations: The COVID-19 pandemic brought a series of risk factors for the occurrence of child abuse, worldwide, during the period of social isolation. With this, situations such as physical violence, verbal and emotional abuse of several adults, are perpetuated and different psychological and problem frames were generated.
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