Experiencias en pareja sobre el cambio de hombres que ejercen violencia doméstica y asisten al PHRSV

Couple experiences on the change of men who exercise domestic violence and attend the PHRSV

Abstract

Objective: To know the relational experience of three men who attend the Programa de Hombres Renunciando a su Violencia to take responsibility for their domestic abuse. Materials and methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional and qualitative study was conducted with three men attending the first re-educational program of its kind in Mexico and their female partners. The dyads were interviewed individually and their narrations were analyzed from pre-elaborated categories. Results: The males addressed the psychological, behavioral and associated well-being changes. Women ratify changes manifested by men, report recidivism that they omitted, and shared elements about their experience of victimization by domestic violence. Conclusions: The differences in the experiences of men and women about this process are sensitive: men broadly describe their subjective process, the increase in their responsibility for abuse and their experience of well-being. Women’s narratives are more abundant and detailed confirming some behavioral changes, they describe their experience of victimization and report the recidivism omitted by their partners, as well as their contexts. Three possible trajectories of the changes in the dyads and diverse meanings that motivate the changes of the males are identified. Attention to this violence is a complex process with adverse conditions that needs to be improved and be part of a larger organized social response. This group device is a mediation of different levels of analysis of the process of social determination of health and disease in this serious public health problem. In addition to masculinities, it is necessary to consider the material, racial and social conditions to study the health-disease-care process of men who exercise domestic violence, especially in the most disadvantaged populations.