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

Table 1

Background information concerning the participants ().

Variables	Mean (SD)
Age in years	42,5 (10,8)
Working years as a nurse	12,3 (9,9)
	Percentages
Working in urban areas/countryside/both	65,9/26,7/7,4
Knowledge of the existence of a guideline (yes/no)?	77,1/22,9
Had they read the guideline (yes/no)?	46,3/53,7
Had they had education on the topic (within a year/earlier/never)?	11,2/34,6/54,2
How many (0/1–4/5 or more//missing) child maltreatment cases they had met during six months?	36,8/19,9/4,6//38,7
How many (0/1–4/5 or more//missing) suspected child maltreatment cases they had met during six months?	28,3/35,7/6,5//29,4