Approach to child violence in the family health strategy: Interfering factors and coping strategies

Abstract

Objective: identifying, in the perception of nurses, the intervening factors and strategies used to approach child violence in the Family Health Strategy. Method: a qualitative study with 22 nurses from Teresina, Piaui. Data were collected in October 2019, through individual interviews guided by a semi-structured script, submitted to Thematic Content Analysis. Results: nurses revealed inability to deal with situations of child violence. They sought to approach these cases through strategies based on dialogue, interprofessional work and intersectoriality. Final thoughts: there were intervening factors for the approach of child violence in the Family Health Strategy, the (non-recognition of signs of child abuse), the barriers to establishing bonds with families and difficulties in interlocution in the care network. The strategies for coping with child violence were interprofessional work, holistic care, articulation with the intersectoral network and dialogue with the family.