Introduction:

child abuse is a universal and multicausal problem involving bio-psycho-social factors. The health sector and the educators of special education must have adequate information on issues such as monitoring and prevention of child abuse.

Objective:

to design an educational intervention based on child abuse.

Methods:

an applied research was carried out with proposals for intervention in two stages, the first describing and the second presenting the proposal, which was conducted at Conrado Benítez García Special Education Institution in Los Palacios municipality, Pinar del Río province, during the period of October-December 2018. Target Group: 52 workers. Sample: 27 people connected to the education and health of these students.

Results:

professional women with a work experience between 10 and 20 years predominated; the total of those surveyed recognized having received some information on child abuse; the main sources were: seminars and postgraduate courses (37 %); 45,4 % knew some forms of child abuse, the syndromes of sudden death and shaken child were only known by doctors; the capacity for prevention was perceived by all individuals included in the sample.

Conclusions:

as part of the inclusive actions of promotion, prevention and health education, an educational intervention on child abuse was designed aimed at professionals connected to the health and education of children with intellectual disabilities.

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