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

Table 2

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

Identifying	(agree 4–6/disagree 1–3)
PHNs meet maltreated children often	15/85%
PHNs recognize child maltreatment based on
Child-related risk factors	53/47%
Risk factors related to parents	66/34%
Family-related risk factors	67/33%
The child’s behavior	43/57%
The parents’ behavior	37/63%
PHNs recognize physical signs sufficiently well	54/46%
PHN’s recognize mental signs sufficiently well	44/56%