楢木野, 裕美

Naragino, Hiromi

prevention of child abuse

This study investigated the actual condition of nursing care and the awareness in nursing staff as to risk factors of child abuse, in order to asess how well child abuse is being prevented and to identify trends in maternal and child care during the perinatal period . Studies and analyses were conducted on 689 nursing staff in maternity wards and NICUs. The findings were as follows ; 1. Nursing staff experienced with potentially abusive mothers were much more concerned about child abuse than inexperienced staff. 2. Nursing staff experienced in providing care tended to be more aware of high risk factors associated with child abuse than inexperienced staff. 3. There was a tendency among nursing staff which provide care to mothers to listen to the feelings of the mothers on various issues, regardless of the degree of experience in nursing care. 4. In actual child care situations, the tendency among nursing staff was to encourage mothers to attachment with their child, by showing the model to mother, this was consistent regardless of the degree of experience in nursing care. Based on our findings, we would like to investigate specific measures taken to prevent child abuse　during the perinatal period.

楢木野, 裕美

prevention of child abuse