Conceptual frameworks for programs addressing violence against children: a scoping review^*

Bases conceptuales orientadoras de programas de enfrentamiento de violencia contra el niño: revisión de alcance

ABSTRACT

Objective:  Map the conceptual frameworks for programs addressing violence against children developed in primary health care.

Method:  This is a scoping review that followed the methodological recommendations of the Joanna Briggs Institute. A reference manager and qualitative analysis software were used for data management and analysis.

Results:  1,346 studies were pre-selected and analyzed. The final sample consisted of 24 studies, mostly published in the 2000s. Three strategic actions were identified in programs: Home Visitation, Children Exposed to Violence, and Parenting Development, most of them focused on the level of intervention. No study explained the conceptual frameworks guiding the programs.

Conclusion:  Mapped programs were well structured and essential for addressing domestic violence against children. They mainly adopted the multi-causal concept to understand the health-disease process, which was restricted to overcoming the contradictions of violence.

DESCRIPTORS Domestic Violence; Child Abuse; Primary Health Care; Public Health; Review; Nursing