Violence Against Women and its Representations: an Integrative Review

Background: To review the scientific literature on violence against women.Method: Integrative review carried out in the Virtual Health Library, in June and July 2015. These inclusion criteria were considered: full text and freely available; female public; studies carried out in Brazil; in Portuguese; with 2011-2014 time frame.Results: The sample was composed of 15 publications, all found in the LILACS (100%) database, of which 9 (60%) had publications in A2 magazines, 4 (26.6%) in B1 magazines and 2 (13.4%) in Qualis B2 magazines. Most of the publications was Quantitative 8 approach (53.3%), showing different thematic perspectives and 7 (46.6%) were qualitative, applying violence in the perception of women and professionals who offer them assistance.Conclusions: It is essential to find coping strategies for violence, as well as the effective detection in primary health care.