BACKGROUND Most people with mental disorders are not violent. However, the lack of specific studies in this area and recent radical changes in Italy, including the closure of six Forensic Mental Hospitals, has prompted a more detailed investigation of patients with aggressive behaviour. AIMS To compare socio-demographic, clinical and treatment-related characteristics of long-term inpatients w...

This article characterizes the problem of violence against health professionals in the workplace (VAHPITWP) in selected settings in Portugal. It addresses the questions of what types of violence are most frequent and who are the most affected health professionals.Three methodological approaches were followed: (i) documentary studies, (ii) a questionnaire-based hospital and health centre (HC) co...

Workplace violence against Doctors is a serious health and safety concern of the medical community in Karachi. This cross-sectional study has explored the frequency of workplace aggression directed towards doctors in a year. Using convenience sampling, data was collected from 354 doctors working in Civil Hospital, Karachi, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical and Dental College, Abassi Shaheed Hospital ...

INTRODUCTION In China, the severity of medical disputes has greatly increased during the past two decades, which has caused various adverse outcomes for health professionals. Previous research on violence in healthcare settings has primarily examined the occurrence of patient-initiated violence and its effects on physicians, but few studies have focused on the impact of the extent of physicians...

BACKGROUND Violence against women is one of the major public health problems in both developed and developing worlds. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of current (occurred in one year preceding the survey) domestic violence and socio-demographic factors associated with domestic violence against women. METHODS This was a cross sectional household survey (face to face int...

BACKGROUND Most studies of school violence have focused on students. Consequently, precursors and consequences of violence experienced by teachers are less well documented. Previous research indicates that (a) verbal victimization, student misbehaviour and perceived violence at school impair teacher emotional well-being, (b) support from principal and colleagues reduces these difficulties and f...

BACKGROUND The aim of this descriptive study was to evaluate the level of marital violence among Turkish women and to determine whether infertility was a risk factor for marital violence. MATERIALS AND METHODS This descriptive study was conducted during January-July 2009 at a training hospital. The study groups comprised 204 fertile and 228 infertile women. We administered the Descriptive Inf...

the study of individual and social factors affecting the tendency to verbal violence among high school boy’s students in bushehr city. the methodology of this study was survey and used a questionnaire. population of this study was all high school boys’ students in the city of bushehr and 400 persons determined as the sample size with using lin table. the method of sampling was a multi-stage str...