Knowledge of puerperals on interventions that cause obstetric violence

Objective: to describe interventions during normal birth understood by puerperal women as obstetric violence. Method: a descriptive study with a quantitative approach, consisting of 74 puerperal assistants in a public reference maternity hospital for the state located in Teresina-PI, data collection took place between October and November 2016, through a previously tested form, for the treatment of the data was used the software Statistical Package for the Social Science version 20.0 and descriptive analysis of the data. Results: the most frequently performed interventions in the parturients were the Kristeller maneuver (16.2%), episiotomy (4%), and repetitive vaginal touches performed by different people (22.9%) and 44, 5% were not submitted to any intervention Conclusion: Although the policy of comprehensive health care for women is conjugated in all tenses in Brazilian maternity hospitals, women continue to be welcomed by a Cartesian, Newtonian delivery in which holism presents itself in a fragmented way.