title: Factors associated with reporting of abuse against children and adolescents by nurses within Primary Health Care.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to analyze the factors associated with the underreporting on the part of nurses within Primary Health Care of abuse against children and adolescents.
  
  
  METHODS
  cross-sectional study with 616 nurses. A questionnaire addressed socio-demographic data, profession, instrumentation and knowledge on the topic, identification and reporting of abuse cases. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression was used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  female nurses, aged between 21 and 32 years old, not married, with five or more years since graduation, with graduate studies, and working for five or more years in PHC predominated. The final regression model showed that factors such as working for five or more years, having a reporting form within the PHC unit, and believing that reporting within Primary Health Care is an advantage, facilitate reporting.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the study's results may, in addition to sensitizing nurses, support management professionals in establishing strategies intended to produce compliance with reporting as a legal device that ensures the rights of children and adolescents.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ana Carine Arruda
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Rolim
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
authors.forename: Gracyelle Alves Remigio
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Moreira
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
authors.forename: Sarah Maria Mendes
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Gondim
authors.affiliation: Faculdade Leão Sampaio, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
authors.forename: Soraya da Silva
authors.initials: Sda S
authors.lastname: Paz
authors.affiliation: Universidade de Fortaleza, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
authors.forename: Luiza Jane Eyre de Souza
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Vieira
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019221:Mandatory Reporting; D009729:Nursing; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult