Conducts adopted by health professionals on hospitalized children victim of violence

Abstract

Exploratory descriptive study, quantitative approach, performed in Hospital da Criança Santo Antônio (HCSA), in Boa Vista – RR. The population was composed of 235 health professionals and the data was collected from june to august 2006. Aiming to acknowledge the type of violence identified by the health professionals in the confirmed or suspected cases of violence on hospitalized children and identify the conducts  adopted by the health professionals; identify the health professionals’ that most help to take the decision. The results show that 29% considered physical violence the most common kind followed by negligence (25,8%); 25,8 % take the attitude of reporting to the nurse and 20,3% to the social service; 26,3% of the professionals consider that the social assistants helped the most on deciding which conduct to adopt following by psicologists (20,8%) e and the physicians (18,2%). Thus we infer that the studied health professionals do not adequately utilize the prescribed ways for notification of suspected or confirmed cases of violence against children attended by hospital care.