Author(s):
Gomes, José Hermínio Gonçalves 
; Sanches, Maria Inês Lopes ; Pinheiro, Tânia Patrícia Carvalho
Date: 2014
Origin: Repositório Científico da Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra
Subject(s): Sexual Abuse; Abuse Children; Children;
Description
Introduction: Maltreatment and abuse of children have been considered a problematic of modern societies essencially because there is a greater exposure of the subject. Therefore, health professionals, particularly nurses have come to pay heed to this issue in order to prevent, detect, signal, track and route the mistreatment and abuse of children.Knowledge about the determinants that lead to the onset of mistreatment and abuse of children is crucial to the development of health interventions in this target group particularly through partnerships with schools.The objectives of this work focus on characterize the victims of mistreatment and abuse and also identify and analyze which are the determinants of ill-treatment and abuse.
Methods: Integrative literature review, in which eight articles (in Portuguese, English or Spanish) were selected and analyzed from recognized published data bases, with a time limit of ten years.
Results: The analysis of articles permitted to identify the determinants that are associated with maltreatment and abuse of children. Determinants such as age, gender, perpetrator, family, social context, type of mistreatment and abuse, usually found themselves associated with more than one type of mistreatment and abuse.
Conclusions: Nurses working within multidisciplinary teams on the implementon of projects, in partnership with the child and family in differents contexts (especially in the schools), have a key role in the prevention of mistreatment and abuse in children by owning knowledge and means (support network) that favor the stopping of the cycle of violence.
