[Medicolegal assessment of human trafficking victims. Descriptive study of a series of forensic cases in Catalonia (Spain)]. / Valoración médico-legal de las víctimas de trata de seres humanos. Estudio descriptivo de una serie de casos forenses en Cataluña (España).

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Human trafficking or contemporary slavery is the recruitment and transfer of people by force or deception for sexual, labour or other types of exploitation. Although the violence, abuse and deprivation that trafficking entails are a threat to the health of its victims, in Spain the clinical or forensic data available in this regard is scarce. At the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Catalonia (IMLCFC), a unit specialized in the forensic assessment of these victims was created. The objective of this work was to describe a series of forensic cases of trafficking victims. MATERIAL AND METHOD: Retrospective study of victims in judicial cases opened for an alleged crime of human trafficking registered in the IMLCFC until 06/30/2023. RESULTS: 57 different victims were registered. The majority were women (71.9%). The average age was 30.5 years (s.d. 10.31). All the victims were foreigners, mostly from Latin America (45.5%). The exploitation was mainly sexual (61.4%). There were some sociodemographic differences and in the conditions and consequences of trafficking between victims of sexual exploitation and the rest. Mental health problems were very common in all victims at the time of the assessment (87.5%). CONCLUSIONS: The consequences of trafficking on health, especially mental health, are notable and the forensic assessment of victims is valuable in judicial proceedings. It is necessary to deepen our knowledge of the phenomenon in our environment.

Caracterização de pessoas com estomas intestinais internadas em hospital privado / Characterization of people with intestinal stomas hospitalized in private hospital

Objetivo: caracterizar a clientela com estomas intestinais de eliminação em hospital privado de capital brasileira. Metodologia: estudo descritivo, retrospectivo, transversal e analítico. Os dados foram coletados em prontuários eletrônicos. Trinta pessoas compuseram a amostra. As variáveis contínuas foram analisadas na forma descritiva. As variáveis categóricas foram apresentadas como frequências absolutas e relativas. Para as variáveis "idade" e "dias de internação" foi calculada a correlação de Pearson. Resultados: a maioria das pessoas com estomas intestinais internadas era do sexo masculino (53,0%), média de idade de 59 anos, casada (63,0%), ativa no mercado de trabalho (86,0%), procedente de cidades do interior do estado, tendo o câncer colorretal como doença de base (88,0%), metade portadora de ileostomia e a outra metade de colostomia. Conclusão: o estudo possibilitou caracterizar a clientela em questão. Contribuiu com dados que favoreçam a sistematização da assistência de enfermagem. Houve como limitante a falta de registro da escolaridade de vários pacientes.

Objective: to characterize the clients with intestinal elimination stomas in a private hospital of Brazilian capital. Methodology: it is a descriptive, retrospective, transversal and analytical study. The data were collected in electronic medical records, with 30 people composing the sample. Continuous variables were analyzed descriptively. Categorical variables are presented as absolute and relative frequencies. For the variables "age" and "days of hospitalization" Pearson's correlation was calculated. Results: the majority of people hospitalized with intestinal stomas were male (53.0%), mean age 59 years, married (63.0%), active in the labor market (86.0%), colorectal cancer as baseline disease (88.0%), with half being ileostomy and the other half colostomy. Conclusion: the study made it possible to characterize the clientele in question and will contribute with data that favor the systematization of nursing care. There was a limitation of the lack of registration of the education of several patients.