Análisis médico-legal de las agresiones a los profesionales sanitarios en Castilla y León (España)

Martínez-León, Mercedes; Burón, Daniel Queipo; Muñiz, María Jesús Irurtia; Martínez-León, Camino

doi:10.1016/j.reml.2011.10.001

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“…[4, 7, 46, 47]. In addition, hospitals could impose harsher punishments for committing violence against health workers; this has shown to be an effective deterrent in Spain, where workplace violence rates have reduced [48]. Television campaigns showing that violence against health workers as an intolerable issue also have been successful in reducing violence in England [49] and South Africa [50].…”

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Workplace violence by specialty among Peruvian medical residents

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ObjectiveTo determine the prevalence of workplace violence among Peruvian medical residents and to evaluate the association between medical specialty and workplace violence per type of aggressor.MethodsThis was a cross-sectional secondary analysis that used data from the Peruvian Medical Residents National Survey 2016 (ENMERE-2016). The outcome of interest was workplace violence, including physical and verbal violence, which were categorized according to the perpetrator of violence (patients/relatives and worker-to-worker). Primary exposure was the medical specialty, categorized as clinical, surgical, and other specialties. To evaluate the associations of interest, we estimated adjusted prevalence ratios (PR) with their respective 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) using Poisson regression models with robust variances.ResultsA total of 1054 Peruvian medical residents were evaluated. The mean age was 32.6 years and 42.3% were female. Overall 73.4% reported having suffered of workplace violence sometime during the residency, 34.4% reported violence from patients/relatives, and 61.1% reported worker-to-worker violence. Compared with clinical residents, surgical residents had a lower prevalence of violence from patients/relatives (PR: 0.71; 95% CI: 0.59–0.87), but a higher prevalence of worker-to-worker violence (PR: 1.11, 95% CI: 1.01–1.23).ConclusionNearly three quarters of medical residents reported having suffered workplace violence sometime during their residency. Compared with clinical residents, surgical residents had lower rates of violence from patients/relatives, but higher rates of worker-to-worker violence; while residents from non-clinical and non-surgical specialties had a lower prevalence of both types of violence.

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“…In Castilla and Leon, medical professionals (especially physicians) and nursing staff were the most affected by violence directed at them personally followed by attendants and orderlies, although the percentage of affected individuals in each category is not reported. The majority of aggression was verbal (65%) [9].…”

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Violence at work and its relationship with burnout, depression and anxiety in healthcare professionals of the emergency services

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Salazar²,

Garrido³

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The aim of this study was to examine the possible relationship between physical and psychological aggression suffered in the workplace and professional burnout, depression and anxiety suffered by healthcare professionals of the emergency services. Methods: 315 physicians, nurses, orderlies and ambulance drivers of Critical Care and Emergency Devices (CCED) in the Andalusian Public Health System, in the province of Granada (Spain) participated. They were interviewed about the exposure to violence at work and answered a battery of questions that measured burnout, depression and anxiety. Results: Physical aggression was significantly related to emotional exhaustion, personal accomplishment at work, depression and anxiety. Psychological aggression was associated with personal accomplishment. Logistic regression showed that the CCED professionals who have suffered physical aggression were 4.2 and 2.6 times more likely to have suffered anxiety and reduced personal accomplishment, respectively, than those who did not suffer physical aggression. On the other hand, feelings of anxiety and reduced personal accomplishment increase the professionals’ risk (3.4 and 2.1 times more likely, respectively) of suffering from physical aggression. Conclusion: The results suggest that exposure to violence is related to the other psychological problems tested: emotional exhaustion and personal accomplishment (two components of burnout), depression and anxiety. In addition, physical violence is a risk factor for anxiety and diminished personal accomplishment of the CCED professionals.

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“…Therefore the aggressions reported to the Medical Association may have a greater severity (Berkson selection bias): one out of every five aggressions had personal injuries and one out of every ten generated a SL and presented material damages. In fact, in other Spanish studies, the reported prevalence of physical damage is lower [ 3 , 8 , 9 , 18 , 19 , 22 ].…”

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National report on aggressions to physicians in Spain 2010–2015: violence in the workplace—ecological study

2018

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ObjectiveAggressions against health staff is a phenomenon that is not widely studied worldwide. To date, there is no national study analyzing this situation in Spain. Our objective is to describe and analyze aggressions to physicians of the whole Spanish territory in the period 2010–2015, through an observational analytical study by conglomerates (ecological) with all aggressions to physicians identified by the 52 official medical associations of Spain over 6 years of study.ResultsThere were 2419 aggressions on physicians, 51% on men. Primary care is the area that concentrates more incidents (54%) and the public sector is the most affected (89%). A third of the assaults were concentrated on professionals aged 46–55 years old. Cumulative incidence decreased from 20 aggressions × 10,000 physicians in 2010 to 15 × 10,000 physicians in 2015. The importance and seriousness of the problem of aggressions against physicians is verified through notifications to the registry. The collection method is different from others based on surveys, and therefore the figures are significantly lower than other studies. The scant denunciation by attacked physicians in Spain makes deceiving the real dimensions of the phenomenon.

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Análisis médico-legal de las agresiones a los profesionales sanitarios en Castilla y León (España)

Cited by 15 publications

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Workplace violence by specialty among Peruvian medical residents

Workplace violence by specialty among Peruvian medical residents

Violence at work and its relationship with burnout, depression and anxiety in healthcare professionals of the emergency services

National report on aggressions to physicians in Spain 2010–2015: violence in the workplace—ecological study

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