Violence against women is a problem that each day gains more space in debates, actions and
research from various perspectives. This paper addresses the issue from an interdisciplinary
approach and aims to identify, using a computational tool and interview with digital questionnaire,
facial expressions and behavioral traits of pregnant women attended at health units in the
municipality of Ananindeua, in order to trace psycho-behavioral patterns denoters of violence
at the same time seek indications of the development of post-traumatic stress disorder among
those who have a picture of violence. To reach this goal, a proprietary computational tool was
developed, which was called the Women’s Health Observer Tool (WHOT), which was very
promising in terms of handling the digital questionnaires used in the interviews, recording the
facial expressions of the interviewees, inferring the emotions manifested on the face of each
one along the questionnaires and to establish connections between emotions and the answers
given, thus contributing to trace the behavioral profiles. Considering the main study on which
this research was based, WHOT was able to indicate evidence of the occurrence of IPV, ACE
and PTSD in pregnant women, which corroborates its importance for the discovery and better
treatment of the victim; it also proves to be a promising assistive device for health professionals
to intervene efficiently and effectively in the care of victims.
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