Nurses' attitudes facing the family involvment in caring for people with mental disorder.

OBJECTIVE To characterize the attitudes of Primary Health Care nurses, regarding the involvement of the family in the care for people with Mental Disorder. METHODS Correlational study with 257 nurses from the city of Sao Paulo. The scale "Importance of Families in Nursing Care- Nurses' Attitudes" was used. For the analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics were used. RESULTS The scale scores were high, with a mean value of 82.1 (SD=8.4) favorable to the families' involvement, and are related to being a nurse in the Family Health Strategy (p<0.001), having received education/training in family nursing (p<0.005), the workload of 40 hours/week (p<0.005), working in the West, East and Center Regions (p<0.005). CONCLUSION Most nurses have positive attitudes towards the involvement of families, a relevant indicator for their inclusion in the health-mental care process.