Introduction. Workplace violence has become a global alarming phenomenon and its expression in physical assault, homicide, verbal abuse, bullying mobbing and sexual and racial harassment. Health sector personnel are particularly at risk of violence in their workplace whose precise dimensions of the problem have not been found. The aim of this study was assessment of exposure or non exposure of nurses with Physical violence during last year and role of some related factors. Material and Methods. Study population consisted of nurses with at least one year of employment employed in academic hospitals of Baqiyatallah medical university which 450 nurses were selected by simple randomized sampling. Data collection was carried out with a standard questionnaire derived from cooperation of WHO, ILO and other authoritative centers. Questionnaires were given and taken by a general physician. Period of data collection was six months (October 2006 to February 2007) Data analysis was carried out by Chi square method. Results. Of total 450 nurses, 96(21.3%) had at least one experience of physical violence in their workplace. Exposures were higher in persons more than 35 years old, in nurses with longer time of experience in men and in registered nurses. Most of violent persons were relatives and patient respectively. In most cases there were no reporting and most of reports had not any results. Discussion. In this survey the prevalence of workplace violence was not higher than some similar studies (22% to 38.9%) . But this result should be interpreted carefully because of nurses’ hesitation, recall bias etc. Furthermore explaining of preventive programs, good management and appropriate reporting should be considered.
GHasemi M, , Rezaei M, , Fathi-Ashtiani A, , Mirzaei P, , & Jonaidi N, (2022). Exposure of Nurses with Physical Violence in Academic Hospitals of âBaqiyatallah Medical University. Journal of Military Medicine, 9(2), 113-121.
MLA
GHasemi M; Rezaei M; Fathi-Ashtiani A; Mirzaei P; Jonaidi N. "Exposure of Nurses with Physical Violence in Academic Hospitals of âBaqiyatallah Medical University". Journal of Military Medicine, 9, 2, 2022, 113-121.
HARVARD
GHasemi M, , Rezaei M, , Fathi-Ashtiani A, , Mirzaei P, , Jonaidi N, (2022). 'Exposure of Nurses with Physical Violence in Academic Hospitals of âBaqiyatallah Medical University', Journal of Military Medicine, 9(2), pp. 113-121.
VANCOUVER
GHasemi M, , Rezaei M, , Fathi-Ashtiani A, , Mirzaei P, , Jonaidi N, Exposure of Nurses with Physical Violence in Academic Hospitals of âBaqiyatallah Medical University. Journal of Military Medicine, 2022; 9(2): 113-121.
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