ABSTRACT

Objectives:

to analyze the hospital structure elements that demarcate (in)visibilities of institutional violence in hospitalized children.

Methods:

this is a descriptive-exploratory qualitative study that used approaches with Foucault’s thinking. Ten companions and 39 healthcare professionals from a university hospital in Salvador, Bahia participated. Data collection took place from November 2018 to June 2019 through semi-structured interviews. The discourse analysis method was used. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board.

Results:

institutional violence was understood in the violations and invisibilities of the structure of health services through the problems: in infrastructure (physical structure, lack of human and material resources, scrapping of equipment); administrative and management; pilgrimage.

Final Considerations:

it is necessary to realize the invisibilities of the infrastructure to act in confronting institutional violence to hospitalized children.

Descriptors:
Structure; Hospital; Violence; Institutional; Child