Nurses' attitudes towards families in neonatal units.

Objective: To analyze nurses' attitudes towards families of newborns hospitalized in neonatal units.

Method: This is a survey carried out in ten municipal hospitals in São Paulo. Two questionnaires were applied, one from the sociodemographic profile and the other from the characterization of neonatal units, and the Importância das Famílias nos Cuidados de Enfermagem - Atitudes dos Enfermeiros scale.