Current Knowledge about Violence against Healthcare Workers

Madani, Seyyed Abdollah; Hashemi, Seyyed Abbas

doi:10.4172/1522-4821.1000268

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“…The complications for WPV in the health sector are multiple, being absent from work, frequent hospital visit, anger, reduction of working spirit, loss of self-confidence, job changing and even death. It can as well have a grave behavioral manifestation on the victim [8]. Aggression against health-care workers is not limited to a particular continent, region or race.…”

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Assessment of Workplace Violence among Primary Healthcare Workers in Enugu Metropolis

Stanley

Nwosu

2020

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Introduction: Work place violence in health-care facilities are on the rise and are routinely underreported. Objective: This study investigated the prevalence of workplace violence among primary health-care workers in Enugu metropolis. Materials and Methods: The participants were selected via multi–stage sampling method. A total of 117 out of 135 questionnaires from primary health-care workers in Enugu metropolis were collated and analyzed with the aid of frequency tables and charts. Results: The results showed that the primary health-care workers are exposed to verbal and non-verbal harassment when working alone in shifts as a contributing factor to workplace violence, subjected to their type of work. This violence most times not reported owing to fear, stigmatization and mistrust of the workers that management will not take their cases serious, this, ultimately impinge on the overall job performance, revenue generation as well as job integrity. Based on the influence of workplace violence on work and life of primary health-care workers about 61.5% of primary health-care workers agrees that workplace violence experience leads to fear and impaired performance and majority agrees that workplace violence does not depends on tribe and religion. Based on predictors of workplace violence, about 69.4%, 69% and 69.1% of primary health-care workers agrees that level of education, work cadre and years of experience influences workplace violence respectively. Conclusion: The study shows that primary health-care workers are exposed to different workplace violence: physical, threat, verbal and sexual harassment. Also, primary health-care workers agree that patient relatives (31.9%) and colleague (17.4%) are the main sources of workplace violence mostly due to misunderstanding. Out of 75 victims of workplace violence 66.7% reported their cases while about 53.6% did not report. Victims of workplace violence should be encouraged to speak up.

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Assessment of Workplace Violence among Primary Healthcare Workers in Enugu Metropolis

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Nwosu

2020

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“…Internationally, patient aggression has been recognized to be one of the most significant and risky issues in the performance of the nursing profession (Pich et al, 2017) as it becomes an integral and permanent part of nurses' professional lives. Nurses are more frequently confronted with aggressive behaviour from patients or their relatives in various clinical settings than other healthcare professionals (Shi et al, 2017) mainly because of their frequent direct contact with the patients (Madani & Hashemi, 2015). However, aggressive incidents are not limited only to specific care areas.…”

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“…Besides, the phenomenon has a negative impact on the organization, as it affects its normal functioning and reputation and contributes to the escalation of healthcare costs and economic consequences due to absenteeism or the loss of capable staff (Roche et al, 2010;Shi et al, 2017). Besides, patient aggression directly affects nurses' health and mental wellbeing, causing instant injuries, such as bruises, lacerations, head injuries, or dislocations, as well as long-term physical and psychological consequences, including post-traumatic stress disorder (e.g., Madani & Hashemi, 2015). Decreased job satisfaction as a result of facing such incidents may result in nurses' feelings of powerlessness, loss of self-confidence, reduction of working spirit, and professional burnout, often leading to a high turnover of nurses, who change workplaces or quit the profession.…”

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“…Nurses' feelings of being angry with patients, together with the stress and anxiety about patient aggression, can also be coped by "going in strong", resulting in overusing control techniques, such as restraints. Because nurses are constantly confronted with difficult and challenging working situations and often with patients' illogical behaviours and expectations, then expressing their experiences and feelings in terms of violence in the wards seems necessary (Madani & Hashemi, 2015). To understand this phenomenon in its complexity, it is crucial to explore factors affecting it.…”

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“…Duxbury and Whittington (2005) formulated three explanatory models that reflect the previously mentioned factors and components of aggression (internal, external, and situational-interactional models). However, aggression against nurses is a complex problem, thus the risk of potential factors is uncertain (Madani & Hashemi, 2015). While some risk factors predispose the nurse or the patient in a certain situation for patient aggression, the research attempts to examine which of them are viewed to be the key determinants of this phenomenon (Child & Mentes, 2010).…”

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The factors affecting patient aggression scale: psychometric testing of a new tool

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Farský²,

Zanovitová³

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Cent Eur J Nurs Midw

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Aim: To report the development and psychometric testing of the Factors Affecting Patient Aggression Scale (the FAPAS), a new attitude scale constructed to measure nurses' perception of miscellaneous factors in terms of their potential to increase the risk of patient aggression against nurses. Design: A cross-sectional study. Methods: The study was conducted according to the STROBE checklist. Data were collected using the FAPAS between November 2014 and May 2015. Registered nurses (n = 1,220) from nine teaching hospitals across Slovakia were included in the study. Construct validity and reliability of the instrument were tested using SPSS 18.0. Results: Resulting from the factor analysis, a six-factor structure was revealed. Six subscales representing specific groups of factors affecting patient aggression against nurses can be conditioned by Gender aspects, Situations of physical and emotional distress of a patient, Nurse-related factors, Factors of nursing shift organization, Patient-related factors, Factors of the nursing workplace environment. The Cronbach's alpha of the instrument was 0.91, ranging from 0.63 to 0.88 for subscales. Conclusion: Based on psychometric testing in the Slovak sociocultural context, the FAPAS showed acceptable reliability and construct validity and thus is considered a promising instrument for measuring nurses' perception of miscellaneous factors of patient aggression.

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Current Knowledge about Violence against Healthcare Workers

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Assessment of Workplace Violence among Primary Healthcare Workers in Enugu Metropolis

Assessment of Workplace Violence among Primary Healthcare Workers in Enugu Metropolis

The factors affecting patient aggression scale: psychometric testing of a new tool

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