Identifying and Intervening in Child Maltreatment and Implementing Related National Guidelines by Public Health Nurses in Finland and Japan

Table 1

Background of the participants.

Variables	Finland ()		Japan ()
	Mean (SD)
Age	42.1 (11.2)		37.3 (9.1)
Working years as a nurse	12.5 (10.3)		12.1 (9.1)
	(percentages)
Gender (male/female)	1 (0.5%)/192 (99.5%)		5 (1%)/434 (99.0%)
PHNs knowing the existence of the guidelines	156 (80.8%)		417 (95.4%)
PHNs who had read the guidelines	104 (53.9%)		383 (88.0%)