Objective:

Explore the health promotion practices of primary care nurses in gender violence with the adolescents.

Methods:

Qualitative study with discussion groups and semi-structured interviews. 37 informants participated, 23 female nurses and 14 male nurses, of primary care in Seville and the province. A content analysis was carried out with the QSR NudisNVivo12® software.

Results:

Several categories emerge from the analysis: practices for the education of the adolescents, practices for detecting and practices for intervening in dating violence.

Conclusions:

Female nurses and male nurses carry out educational interventions promoting egalitarian relationships, with different techniques. Only nurses female perform screening and counseling to detect cases. Female nurses and male nurses perform interventions to interrupt abusive relationships. There is sensitivity to gender violence and the need to evaluate the effectiveness and profitability of the interventions carried out is evidenced.