Workplace Violence in HealtH care: a continuous Global problem and its cHaracteristics in cHina Workplace violence is a persistent problem in health care worldwide. The victims are usually nurses and workers in the emergency department.[1‐8] The academic debate, as it develops overtime, would allow us to gain an integral insight about this problem. The author searched the related research and d...

Objectives   The objective of this pilot study was to identify the type of workplace violence experienced by undergraduate paramedic and midwifery students. Methods The study used a cross-sectional methodology with the self-administered paper-based Paramedic Workplace Violence Exposure Questionnaire to elicit undergraduate paramedic and midwife responses to workplace violence whilst on clinic...

OBJECTIVE To explore the impact of workplace violence on job performance and quality of life of community healthcare workers in China, especially the relationship of these three variables. METHODS From December 2013 to April 2014, a total of 1404 healthcare workers were recruited by using the random cluster sampling method from Community Health Centers in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. The workplace...

Background Workplace violence is one of the factors which can strongly reduce job satisfaction and the quality of working life of nurses. The aim of this study was to measure nurses’ exposure to workplace violence in one of the major teaching hospitals in Tehran in 2010.   Methods We surveyed the nurses in a cross-sectional design in 2010. The questionnaire was adapted from a standardized quest...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the present study was to explore the characteristics of workplace violence that Chinese nurses at tertiary and county-level hospitals encountered in the 12 months from December 2014 to January 2016, to identify and analyse risk factors for workplace violence, and to establish the basis for future preventive strategies. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SETTING A tota...

Violence in the workplace refers to any threat, physical and/or psychological in nature, that is directed toward a person while at work. A report by the International Labour Organization concluded that workplace violence has increased dramatically throughout the world in recent decades. Among all occupational groups, health care personnel is a major target or victim of workplace violence. The r...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate workplace violence by patients or their relatives towards health-care workers in Congolese hospitals. METHODS Through the autumn of 2012, a cross-sectional survey on workplace violence was conducted in a sample of 2,210 registered health-care workers (989 males and 1,221 females, aged 33 ± 8 years) from 436 hospitals located in the province ...

Workplace violence in health care settings is an occupational issue concerning nurses and other health care professionals. Patient aggression against nurses is often the most common form of violence in clinical settings, occurring in emergency departments, inpatient psychiatric settings, and nursing homes. Physical and verbal assaults are the major forms of workplace violence encountered by nur...

This research was conducted to address the experience of workplace violence of Turkish workers from different sectors and to investigate the impact of the exposed violence on their psychological well-being. Data were collected anonymously with printed questionnaires from the volunteer participants and depended on self-reporting. The response rate was 79.0% (1708/2161). The prevalence of workpla...