Fighting Violence Against Health Workers: A Way to Improve Quality of Care?

Gignon, Maxime; Verheye, Jean-Charles; Manaouil, Cécile; Ammirati, Christine; Turban-Castel, Emmanuelle; Ganry, O.

doi:10.3928/21650799-20140514-02

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“…Workplace violence against healthcare providers is on the rise (Gignon et al . 2014; Yi et al . 2020), while nurses usually have the most contact with patients and face the highest risk of violent attack, such as physical and verbal violence (Gomaa et al .…”

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“…Workplace violence is a serious crisis for healthcare providers, especially nurses, all over the world (Weldehawaryat et al 2020). Workplace violence against healthcare providers is on the rise (Gignon et al 2014;Yi et al 2020), while nurses usually have the most contact with patients and face the highest risk of violent attack, such as physical and verbal violence (Gomaa et al 2015). Nurses are at risk for direct trauma exposure in their daily work consequent to workplace violence, abuse, and workplace accidents (Okoli et al 2021;Varghese et al 2021).…”

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Prevalence and influencing factors of posttraumatic growth among nurses suffering from workplace violence: A cross‐sectional study

Zeng

Zhang²,

Wang

et al. 2022

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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The purpose of this study was to (i) identify the level of posttraumatic growth among nurses suffering from workplace violence, (ii) clarify the relationship between nurses' posttraumatic growth and compassion satisfaction, burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and (iii) determine the influencing factors for posttraumatic growth among nurses suffering from workplace violence. A cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate 726 nurses suffering from workplace violence in 10 tertiary hospitals by using demographic, work-related information, lifestyle questionnaire, simplified Chinese version of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory, and professional quality of life scale. In the findings, (i) the participants' posttraumatic growth scores were 57.29 AE 21.56, while the compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress scores were 32.82 AE 6.80, 27.17 AE 5.53, and 26.67 AE 5.29, respectively, (ii) posttraumatic growth was positively correlated with compassion satisfaction and secondary traumatic stress, and negatively correlated with burnout, and (iii) compassion satisfaction, sleep hours per day, department, scheduling, alcohol, secondary traumatic stress, children, and work hours per day were influencing factors of posttraumatic growth, which explained 36.3% of the total variance. Our study indicates that Chinese nurses may experience moderate levels of compassionate satisfaction, burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and low levels of posttraumatic growth after suffering from workplace violence, while the posttraumatic growth of nurses suffering from workplace violence is more affected by work-related variables and lifestyle-related variables, but less affected by other sociodemographic variables. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the psychological evaluation of nurses and adopt targeted strategies to promote nurses' posttraumatic growth.

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Prevalence and influencing factors of posttraumatic growth among nurses suffering from workplace violence: A cross‐sectional study

Zeng

Zhang²,

Wang

et al. 2022

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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“…WPV may be underreported in most developing countries, but the aftermath effect is obvious. Although it might be difficult to estimate the cost of violence, empirical evidence suggested that WPV account for 30% of the total cost of violence to the society ( Gignon et al, 2014 ).…”

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Work place violence (WPV) against healthcare workers in Africa: A systematic review

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Edeogu

Oko

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Background WPV amongst healthcare workers has been reported as a public health challenge across the countries of the world, with more in the developing countries where condition of care and service is very poor. Objectives We aimed to systematically produce empirical evidence on the WPV against health care workers in Africa through the review of relevant literature. Method We sourced for evidence through the following databases: PubMed, Science direct and Scopus from 30 th November to 31 st December 2019 as well as the reference list of the studies included. A total of 22 peer reviewed articles were included in the review (8065 respondents). Quality appraisal of the included studies was assessed using critical appraisal tools for cross-sectional studies. Result Across the studies, diverse but high prevalence of WPV ranging from 9% to 100% was reported with the highest in South Africa (54%–100%) and Egypt (59.7%–86.1%). The common types were verbal, physical, sexual harassment and psychological violence. The correlates of WPV reported were gender, age, shift duty, emergency unit, psychiatric unit, nursing, marital status and others. Various impacts were reported including psychological impacts and desire to quit nursing. Patients and their relatives, the coworkers and supervisors were the mostly reported perpetrators of violence. Doctors were mostly implicated in the sexual violence against nurses. Policy on violence and management strategies were non-existent across the studies. Conclusion High prevalence of WPV against healthcare workers exists in Africa but there is still paucity of research on the subject matter. However, urgent measures like policy formulation and others must be taken to address the WPV as to avert the impact on the healthcare system.

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“…Workplace violence towards health workers in hospitals (Gignon et al . ; Spector et al . ) and in psychiatric/mental health units in particular (Allen ; Koukia & Zyga ) is on the rise.…”

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Exposure of mental health nurses to violence associated with job stress, life satisfaction, staff resilience, and post‐traumatic growth

Itzhaki

Peles‐Bortz

Kostistky

et al. 2015

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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Workplace violence towards health workers in hospitals and in mental health units in particular is increasing. The aim of the present study was to explore the effects of exposure to violence, job stress, staff resilience, and post-traumatic growth (PTG) on the life satisfaction of mental health nurses. A descriptive, cross-sectional design was used. The sample consisted of mental health nurses (n = 118) working in a large mental health centre in Israel. Verbal violence by patients was reported by 88.1% of the nurses, and 58.4% experienced physical violence in the past year. Physical and verbal violence towards nurses was correlated with job stress, and life satisfaction was correlated with PTG and staff resilience. Linear regression analyses indicated that life satisfaction was mainly affected by PTG, staff resilience, and job stress, and less by exposure to verbal and physical violence. The present study is the first to show that, although mental health nurses are frequently exposed to violence, their life satisfaction is affected more by staff resilience, PTG, and job stress than by workplace violence. Therefore, it is recommended that intervention programmes that contribute to PTG and staff resilience, as well as those that reduce job stress among mental health nurses, be explored and implemented.

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Fighting Violence Against Health Workers: A Way to Improve Quality of Care?

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

Prevalence and influencing factors of posttraumatic growth among nurses suffering from workplace violence: A cross‐sectional study

Prevalence and influencing factors of posttraumatic growth among nurses suffering from workplace violence: A cross‐sectional study

Work place violence (WPV) against healthcare workers in Africa: A systematic review

Exposure of mental health nurses to violence associated with job stress, life satisfaction, staff resilience, and post‐traumatic growth

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