Uso de historietas para comprender las percepciones y los sentimientos de los menores hospitalizados por maltrato físico

Introduction: Child physical abuse is a recurrent practice that harms the physical and emotional development of children. Objective: To understand the perceptions and feelings of a group of children who have been physically abused by their parents or caretakers. Materials and Methods: A descriptive qualitative study was conducted using comic strips to respond to the inductive stimulus of what comes to mind when children are mistreated. Results: Feelings of love and hate, guilt, sadness, resentment, desire for vengeance and shame were experienced, as well as the perception of physical abuse as a harmful attitude. Conclusions: Children exhibited anxiety, shyness, aggressiveness, introspection and a tendency to social isolation since child physical abuse represents a tragic episode that would ultimately lead them to death, which is why it is suggested to use dialogue or other methods of punishment instead of physical abuse. How to cite this article: Lima, Juciara Karla de Souza; Lira, Margaret Olinda de Souza Carvalho e; Oliveira, Jeany Freire de; Campos, Fernando Vitor Alves; Paiva, Levi Olinda Lira de. Uso do desenho-estoria para apreensao de entendimentos e sentimentos de criancas institucionalizadas sobre agressao fisica. Revista Cuidarte. 2021;12(1):e1204. http://dx.doi.org/10.15649/cuidarte.1204