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

Table 4

The effects of separate background factors on identifying, intervening, and implementing.

Variables	Identifying	Intervening	Implementing
Age (correlation, significance)	0,01 NS	0,01 NS	0,1
Working years as a nurse (correlation, significance)	−0,02 NS	−0,03 NS	0,07 NS
Working in urban areas/countryside/both (ANOVA sig.)	NS	NS	NS
Knowledge of the existence of a guideline (-test sig.)
PHN had read the guideline (-test sig.)
PHN had had education on the topic (ANOVA sig.)
How many (0, 1−4, 5, or more) child maltreatment cases they had met during six months (ANOVA sig.)
How many (0, 1–4, 5 or more) suspected child maltreatment cases they had met during six months (ANOVA sig.)

Estimate significance ( value): NS = not significant; <0,05; <0,01; <0,001.