Abstract
Objective: To identify the prevalence of violence and its association with socioeconomic, demographic and health variables in elderly people from Primary Health Care Units in a state in northern Brazil. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with 290 elderly people followed up in primary health care in the capital of Acre, in the period 2016-2017. The prevalence of each type of violence was identified and the prevalence of general violence was verified. Through Poisson Regression, the factors associated with general violence were tested, with Gross Prevalence Ratios (PR) with their respective confidence intervals (95% CI). After bivariate regression, multivariate analysis was performed. Only those that showed the best fit in the prevalence ratios and p≤0.05 remained in the final model. Results: Psychological violence was more prevalent in the sample (30.6%). The variables neighborhood security, family income, fragility syndrome, depression, cancer, stroke, race / color and excess of alcoholic beverages, were the factors associated with the prevalence of general violence. Conclusion: there was a high prevalence of violence in the elderly studied and the associated factors were mostly related to weakened health. It is argued that strategies to promote healthy aging can also assist in tackling violence against the elderly population.