Procedimentos éticos de pesquisas junto a crianças, adolescentes e suas famílias em situação de violências: Um olhar necessário

Abstract

Introduction: In Brazil, children and adolescents are the main victims of domestic, sexual and other types of interpersonal and self-harm. Nowadays pluralizes the typifications of violence, generating room for dubiousness in relation to the precepts of each scenario. Then, in view of this scenario, the great need to understand, investigate and deepen these phenomena and the populations involved in them emerges; however, issues such as privacy, secrecy and security can produce ethical dilemmas for researchers, study participants and professionals. Objective: to report ethical research procedures with families involved in interpersonal violence against children and adolescents and with adolescents involved in self-inflicted violence. Methods: experience report of two studies carried out in medium-sized municipalities in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Results: The adoption of methodological approaches that favor extended listening and welcoming the participants, in addition to the collection of information, should be prioritized; in addition to continuing care strategies, such as referral to health services and articulation with the territory. The fields of study need to be partners and effectively co-participants in this construction of knowledge, and not simply research scenarios. Conclusions: The debate during the training of professionals who deal with cases of types of violence must pass through the walls of academia and practice, in addition, research on violence involving children, adolescents and their families is challenging from an ethical, legal point of view, technical and economical. However, such populations must be seen and heard in the construction of scientific knowledge, especially in matters that directly involve them.