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NURSES’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS INTERSECTORAL COOPERATIONAND SOCIAL CARE SYSTEMIN RELATION TOPREVENTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Aleksandar Racz
orcid.org/0000-0002-3118-2623
; Zdravstveno veleučilište, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
In accordance with accepted national strategies on prevention of domestic violence, all health care professionals, and nurses in particular, play an important role in the protection of women exposed to domestic violence. In order to successfully train nurses on recognising and reportingdomestic violence and on domestic violence against women prevention programmes, it is crucial to gain an insight into their beliefs and viewpoints as well as previous experience in intersectoral cooperation with the police, the judicial system and social services, as well as the attitudes towards reporting specific cases of domestic violence against patients that nurses meet during their professional work. The research was conducted on the random stratified sample of 600 nurses within the health care system at the territory of the City of Zagreb. Results indicate that nurses attribute most importance in the prevention of domestic violence against women to the police and the judicial system, somewhat less importance is attributed to the social service and the importance of the health care system is perceived as under average.Markedly least importance is attributed to the civil society associations. Respondents express distinctly negative attitudes towards the work of social services although over 83% of them have never had a professional contact with the social care system staff in their nursing careers. Notwithstanding the critical attitudes towards the social care system, 69.7% of nurses express the willingness to contact social services in this type of situations. Although74.0% of nursesagreewith the legal liability to report identified cases of domestic violence against women, actual reporting is not a common practice. This finding could be partially explained by the fact that nurses to the highest degree agree with the statement that the domestic violence against women is not to be reported to anyone since it breaches the confidentiality principle. The fact that only 12% of nurses are ready to personally actively participate in the process of reporting identified cases of domestic violence is particularly disturbing.
Ključne riječi
domestic violence against women; intersectoral cooperation; nurses; attitudes towards social care system
Hrčak ID:
118482
URI
Datum izdavanja:
14.3.2014.
Posjeta: 2.364 *