Research Article

How Public Health Nurses Identify and Intervene in Child Maltreatment Based on the National Clinical Guideline

Table 3

Items included in intervening sum variable and the percentages that agree/disagree ().

Intervening (agree 4–6/disagree 1–3)

PHNs discuss sufficiently well with families about
 Risk factors in families 61/39%
 Child rearing practices 69/31%
 Problems in the couple’s relationship 52/48%
 Problems in everyday life 80/20%
 Child development 80/20%
 Problems in child development 79/21%
PHNs advice parents sufficiently well to
 Seek help when needed 88/12%
 Act well in situations when the child has a tantrum76/24%
 Act well when the child behaves badly 71/29%
 Act well when the child does not fulfill expectations 60/40%
 Act well when the child has special needs or is ill 69/31%
 Act well when the child cries 76/24%
 Discuss their joint child rearing practices 67/33%
When suspecting child maltreatment, PHN
 Asks about it straightforwardly 69/31%
 Always makes a child welfare notification 86/14%
 Helps the maltreated child sufficiently well 52/48%
 Helps the family sufficiently well 50/50%
 Documents maltreatment sufficiently well 82/18%
 Guides to follow-up treatment sufficiently well 81/19%
 Listens to the family under suspicion sufficiently well 83/17%
 Collaborates sufficiently well with other professionals 86/14%
 Thinks multiprofessional collaboration works well in the municipality 59/41%
 Thinks multiprofessional collaboration works well in their organization 69/31%
 Knows who to contact when suspecting child maltreatment 87/13%
When suspecting child maltreatment PHN gets enough support from
 Superiors50/50%
 Peers 82/18%
 The clinic physician69/31%
 Child protection69/31%
In our clinic:
 We have joint instructions to handle child maltreatment cases54/46%
 We have clear instructions on how to make a child welfare notification 65/35%
 It is possible to work according to the child maltreatment guideline59/41%