Violence against health employees in a child health and diseases clinic: A tertiary-level hospital example

Türk Pediatri Arşivi
Merve OğuzDolunay Gürses

Abstract

Violence in health is an important public health problem that threatens community peace. In our study, it was aimed to examine the state of exposure to violence among employees in our clinic in the last one year and our employees' opinions and attitudes about violence. The study was performed cross-sectionally. In this study the Violent Incident Form developed by Arnetz (1998) was used as a data collection tool. A total of 182 healthcare workers were included in the study. Of the participants, 14 (7.7%) were faculty members, 37 (20.3%) were physicians, 24 (13.2%) were interns, 70 (38.5%) were nurses, 10 (5.5%) were medical secretaries, and 27 (14.8%) were ancillary health personnel. The female/male ratio was 143/39. Seventy-nine (43.4%) of the employees had been exposed to violence at least once in the last year. Of those experiencing violence, 57 (72%) were female, 28 (35%) were nurses, 21 (27%) were residents, 16 (20%) were interns, five (6.5%) were faculty members, five (6.5%) were allied health personnel, and four (5%) were medical secretaries. Physicians were exposed to violence with a higher rate (p<0.05). Exposure to violence was observed most frequently in the pediatric emergency department. Of all the violent incidents...Continue Reading

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