Experience of workplace bullying behaviours in postgraduate hospital dentists: questionnaire survey

Steadman, Liz; Quine, Lyn; Jack, Karen; Felix, David H; Waumsley, Julie A.

doi:10.1038/sj.bdj.2009.901

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“…3,6 The prevalence of workplace bullying throughout the medical workforce in Australia or elsewhere has not been investigated, with previous studies focussing on subsets of doctors, particularly junior doctors. 2,3,[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] We report here on cross-sectional data gathered through the DeC Study on the prevalence and potential impact of bullying in the Australian medical workforce.…”

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“…Our study is the first to examine bullying within a cross-section of a national medical workforce and with 747 respondents, is amongst the largest published studies investigating this issue. Previous studies have investigated the prevalence of bullying in specific sectors of the workforce, including junior doctors, 2,11,12,14,17 trainee psychiatrists, 10 postgraduate hospital dentists, 15 and staff of specific regional health administrations. 13,28 However, comparisons between studies are difficult because different definitions of bullying and data collection methods were used.…”

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“…Nonetheless, studies using comparable approaches to ours have reported similar rates of bullying: 18% in junior doctors, 2 and 25% in postgraduate hospital dentists. 15 Studies investigating the prevalence of bullying generally enquire about perceived victimisation, as we did, or exposure to specific bullying behaviours, or a mix of both approaches. 3 But, as the defining characteristic of bullying is the impact of the behaviour on the victim, not the behaviour itself or the intent of the perpetrator, 29 simply asking about exposure to specific behaviours without assessing their impact may inflate the prevalence of bullying.…”

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Bullying in the Australian medical workforce: cross-sectional data from an Australian e-Cohort study

Askew

Schluter

Dick

et al. 2012

Aust. Health Review

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Objective. This study aimed to describe the prevalence of perceived workplace bullying in the Australian medical workforce, and investigate the relationship between workplace bullying and job satisfaction, health status, and current and planned medical workforce participation.Methods. An electronic cross-sectional survey of doctors currently in the paid workforce, conducted between April 2008 and October 2009, was nested within a longitudinal cohort study investigating factors affecting the recruitment and retention of the Australian medical workforce. To address the specific aims of this study, a subset of questions in the survey investigated the prevalence of self-reported bullying; physical and mental health; workforce participation patterns; job satisfaction; and job stressors.Results. Seven hundred and forty-seven participants responded to the bullying question and were included in this analysis. Twenty-five percent of participants reported being bullied in the last 12 months. There were no differences in the reported rates of bullying across age groups, sex and country of medical qualification. Bullied doctors were least satisfied with their jobs (P < 0.001), had taken more sick leave in the last 12 months (P < 0.001), and were more likely to be planning to decrease the number of hours worked in medicine in the next 12 months (P = 0.01) or ceasing direct patient care in the next 5 years (independent of their age or the number of hours currently worked in patient care) (P = 0.006).Conclusions. Our findings suggest that Australian doctors, independent of age or sex, have experienced workplace bullying, and although no conclusions can be made about causal pathways, there were strong associations between this exposure and poorer health and wellbeing, and on remaining in the medical workforce.What is known about the topic? Bullying and harassment have a significant impact on mental health, job satisfaction, and intention to leave the workforce. Workplace bullying in healthcare organisations affects the individuals involved, the organisations and the patients. The prevalence of workplace bullying throughout the medical workforce in Australia or elsewhere has not been investigated, with previous studies focussing on subsets of doctors, particularly junior doctors. What does this paper add? This paper found that 25% of doctors participating in this study reported experiencing persistent behaviours in the last 12 months that had undermined their professional confidence or self-esteem. There were no differences in the prevalence of bullying observed between sexes, age groups, country of medical qualifications, or employment sector. Victims of bullying had poorer mental health, had taken more sick leave in the last 12 months, were less Journal compilation Ó AHHA 2012 www.publish.csiro.au/journals/ahr CSIRO PUBLISHING Australian Health Review, 2012, 36, 197-204 Research Note http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/AH11048WORKFORCE satisfied with their current jobs and with being doctors, were more affected by job stresso...

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Dick

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“…Hierarchical systems of leadership have been found to foster bullying and incivility (Johnson 2009;Paradis et al 2013). Medical, nursing, pharmacy, and dental students report being bullied by their faculty (Anderson 2013;Knapp et al 2014;Rowland et al 2010;Timm 2014), by their preceptors (Timm 2014), and as new professionals (Fnais et al 2014;Steadman et al 2009). Health professionals also report being bullied by each other.…”

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“…Nurses report experiencing incivility from physicians (Brewer et al 2013;Laschinger 2014;Tang et al 2013). Finally, health professionals report that they are bullied and suffer incivility from their own professional colleagues; dentists report most frequently being bullied by their own colleagues (Steadman et al 2009), and nurses report frequent incivility on the part of their colleagues, sometimes referred to as horizontal violence (Baltimore 2006;Center 2011;Johnson 2009).…”

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Ebola, Team Communication, and Shame: But Shame on Whom?

Shannon

2015

The American Journal of Bioethics

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Examined as an isolated situation, and through the lens of a rare and feared disease, Mr. Duncan's case seems ripe for second-guessing the physicians and nurses who cared for him. But viewed from the perspective of what we know about errors and team communication, his case is all too common. Nearly 440,000 patient deaths in the U.S. each year may be attributable to medical errors. Breakdowns in communication among health care teams contribute in the majority of these errors. The culture of health care does not seem to foster functional, effective communication between and among professionals. Why? And more importantly, why do we not do something about it?

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A history of research into bullying

Monks

Coyne

2011

Bullying in Different Contexts

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Experience of workplace bullying behaviours in postgraduate hospital dentists: questionnaire survey

Cited by 14 publications

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Bullying in the Australian medical workforce: cross-sectional data from an Australian e-Cohort study

Bullying in the Australian medical workforce: cross-sectional data from an Australian e-Cohort study

Ebola, Team Communication, and Shame: But Shame on Whom?

A history of research into bullying

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