A survey of verbal and physical assaults towards psychiatrists in Turkey

Altınbaş, Kürşat; Altınbaş, Gülçin; Türkcan, Ahmet; Oral, Elif; Walters, James

doi:10.1177/0020764010382364

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“…There has also been a body of literature suggesting that violence towards psychiatrists is more common than others [Altinbas et al, 2011]. The percentage of workers suffering workplace violence for mental health nurses was reported to be 58% in England and 71% in Sweden [Nolan et al, 2001].…”

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Workplace violence and influencing factors among medical professionals in China

Zhu

et al. 2012

American J Industrial Med

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Workplace violence and influencing factors among medical professionals in China

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“…Unlike nonfatal assaults, workplace homicides occurred most frequently in the retail sector at 38% with services sector at 17% . Among health care workers, physicians were victims of violence at high rates as demonstrated in multiple studies in both the United States and throughout the world .…”

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“…The levels of violence in developing countries have been less studied but reports have noted concern for increased violence in multiple countries such as China, Saudi Arabia, India and Nigeria . In Turkey, a high percentage psychiatrist reported verbal threat or physical violence (71%) although physical assaults appear to be less (2.7%) . A Polish study noted aggression toward physicians at rates of 80% for inpatient services with the most common in surgery (48%), neurology (40%), and EM (33%) .…”

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Violence toward chronic pain care providers: A national survey

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“…Although different aspects of physical and verbal attacks in healthcare have been reported in a number of studies, the reports on this topic are limited in our country (25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33). For this reason, we aimed to investigate assaults on doctors working at the Canakkale State Hospital and the Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University in Turkey.…”

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Çanakkale ilinde son 1 yılda hekime yönelik saldırıların değerlendirilmesi

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Evaluation of assaults on doctors in Canakkale within the last yearObjective: Violence against doctors and health professionals in the healthcare environment is thought to have increased in recent years. Although physical and verbal assaults in the health care system have been evaluated in many different aspects, a limited amount of research has been done in this field in our country.For this reason, we aimed to investigate assaults towards doctors working at the Çanakkale State Hospital and Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University in Turkey.Method: A questionnaire was prepared by researchers assessing assaults within the last year on doctors working in the state and university hospitals. Data from 130 doctors who agreed to participation in the study were analysed with SPSS version 16. Descriptive statistics, independent sample T-test for normally distributed variables and Mann-Whitney U test for non-normally distributed variables were used to compare the groups.Results: We found that 59.2% (n=77) of the doctors were verbally and/or physically assaulted at least once during the past year. The majority of attackers consisted of relatives of patients (40.8% verbal attack, n=31).The verbal assaults mostly occurred in outpatient clinics (61.5%), with half of the physical assaults occurring in the emergency department. The vast majority of doctors considered that poor health policies were the most important reason for assaults (83.3%, n=65), and nearly all of them thought that violence towards doctors has increased in recent years (97.4%). Conclusion:The fact that most of the doctors exposed to assaults, regardless of gender, institution, or work position, perceived health policies as being responsible for this violent atmosphere, is very striking. We believe that larger sample-size and comprehensive countrywide studies in this area would help to provide solutions for this problem. Sonuç: Hekimlerin önemli bir bölümünün cinsiyet, çalıştıkları kurum ve konumdan bağımsız olarak, saldırılardan benzer oranda etkilenmesi ve uygulanan sağlık politikalarını var olan şiddet ortamının sorumlusu olarak görmesi oldukça çarpıcıdır. Bu alanda, daha geniş örneklem ile daha kapsamlı, ülke genelinde yapılacak çalışmaların, bu sorunun çözümüne ilişkin çıkış yolları sağlayacağını düşünmekteyiz.

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A survey of verbal and physical assaults towards psychiatrists in Turkey

Cited by 18 publications

References 27 publications

Workplace violence and influencing factors among medical professionals in China

Workplace violence and influencing factors among medical professionals in China

Violence toward chronic pain care providers: A national survey

Çanakkale ilinde son 1 yılda hekime yönelik saldırıların değerlendirilmesi

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