Rural General Practitioner Apprehension About Work Related Violence in Australia

Tolhurst, Helen; Talbot, Jane; Baker, Louise; Bell, Pam; Murray, Gillian; Sutton, Amber; Dean, Sarah; Treloar, Carla; Harris, Gillian W.

doi:10.1111/j.1440-1584.2003.00526.x

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“…Other characteristics of healthcare workers that have been associated with an increased risk of workplace bullying include gender and marital status. Furthermore, a greater percentage of female physicians fear a potentially violent encounter at work compared to male physicians [93]. Lin and Liu’s study reports that unmarried workers are significantly more likely to experience workplace violence compared to married employees [94].…”

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Workplace Bullying among Healthcare Workers

Ariza-Montes

Muñiz

Montero-Simó

et al. 2013

IJERPH

123

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This paper aims to assess consistent predictors through the use of a sample that includes different actors from the healthcare work force to identify certain key elements in a set of job-related organizational contexts. The utilized data were obtained from the 5th European Working Conditions Survey, conducted in 2010 by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. In light of these objectives, we collected a subsample of 284 health professionals, some of them from the International Standard Classification of Occupations—subgroup 22—(ISCO-08). The results indicated that the chance of a healthcare worker referring to him/herself as bullied increases among those who work on a shift schedule, perform monotonous and rotating tasks, suffer from work stress, enjoy little satisfaction from their working conditions, and do not perceive opportunities for promotions in their organizations. The present work summarizes an array of outcomes and proposes within the usual course of events that workplace bullying could be reduced if job demands were limited and job resources were increased. The implications of these findings could assist human resource managers in facilitating, to some extent, good social relationships among healthcare workers.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Workplace Bullying among Healthcare Workers

Ariza-Montes

Muñiz

Montero-Simó

et al. 2013

IJERPH

123

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“…For instance, researchers have observed that older workers experience significantly less violence than young workers [100,101]. Other characteristics that have been associated with an increased risk of workplace bullying include gender and marital status; a greater percentage of female physicians, for example, fear a potentially violent encounter at work compared to male physicians [102]. Lin and Liu’s study reports that unmarried workers are significantly more likely to experience workplace violence compared to married employees [103].…”

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Workplace Bullying among Managers: A Multifactorial Perspective and Understanding

Ariza-Montes

Leal-Rodríguez

et al. 2014

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The aim of this paper is to study certain factors that may be determinant in the emergence of workplace bullying among managers—employees with a recognized and privileged position to exercise power—adopting the individual perspective of the subject, the bullied manager. Individual, organizational, and contextual factors integrate the developed global model, and the methodology utilized to accomplish our research objectives is based on the binary logistic regression model. A sample population of 661 managers was obtained from the micro data file of the 5th European Working Conditions Survey-2010 (European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions) and utilized to conduct the present research. The results indicate that the chance for a manager to refer to him/herself as bullied increases among women that hold managerial positions and live with children under 15 at home, and among subjects that work at night, on a shift system, suffering from work stress, enjoying little satisfaction from their working conditions, and not perceiving opportunities for promotions in their organizations. The present work summarizes an array of outcomes and proposes, within the usual course of events, that workplace bullying could be reduced if job demands were limited and job resources were increased. The implications of these findings could assist directors/general directors in facilitating, to some extent, good social relationships among managers.

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“…Reported prevalence of experienced violence among GPs ranges from 21% to 83% depending on methodology and geographical area studied [34-41]. The apprehension about work-related violence has been found to be particularly high in out-of-hours services [31,42-44]. As most papers on work-related violence in general practice have pointed out, this might have serious consequences for a viable after-hours primary healthcare service.…”

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Psychiatry out-of-hours: a focus group study of GPs' experiences in Norwegian casualty clinics

Johansen

Carlsen

Hunskaar

2011

BMC Health Serv Res

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BackgroundFor Norwegian general practitioners (GPs), acute treatment of mental illness and substance abuse are among the most commonly experienced emergency situations in out-of-hours primary healthcare. The largest share of acute referrals to emergency psychiatric wards occurs out-of-hours, and out-of-hours services are responsible for a disproportionately high share of compulsory referrals. Concerns exist regarding the quality of mental healthcare provided in the out-of-hours setting. The aim of this study was to explore which challenges GPs experience when providing emergency care out-of-hours to patients presenting problems related to mental illness or substance abuse.MethodsWe conducted a qualitative study based on two individual interviews and six focus groups with purposively sampled GPs (totally 45 participants). The interviews were analysed successively in an editing style, using a thematic approach based on methodological descriptions by Charmaz and Malterud.ResultsSafety and uncertainty were the dominating themes in the discussions. The threat to personal safety due to unpredictable patient behaviour was a central concern, and present security precautions in the out-of-hours services were questioned. The GPs expressed high levels of uncertainty in their work with patients presenting problems related to mental illness or substance abuse. The complexity of the problems presented, shortage of time, limited access to reliable information and limited range of interventions available during out-of-hours contributed to this uncertainty. Perceived access to second opinion seemed to have a major impact on subjectively experienced work stress.ConclusionsThe GPs experienced out-of-hours psychiatry as a field with high levels of uncertainty and limited support to help them meet the experienced challenges. This might influence the quality of care provided. If the current organisation of emergency mental healthcare is to be kept, we need to provide GPs with a better support framework out-of-hours.

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Rural General Practitioner Apprehension About Work Related Violence in Australia

Cited by 44 publications

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Workplace Bullying among Healthcare Workers

Workplace Bullying among Healthcare Workers

Workplace Bullying among Managers: A Multifactorial Perspective and Understanding

Psychiatry out-of-hours: a focus group study of GPs' experiences in Norwegian casualty clinics

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