Workplace Violence and Self-reported Psychological Health: Coping with Post-traumatic Stress, Mental Distress, and Burnout among Physicians Working in the Emergency Departments Compared to Other Specialties in Pakistan

Mediating effects of workplace violence on the relationships between emotional labour and burnout among clinical nurses

“…While the emotional labour of clinical nurses might directly influence both burnout 1 and 2, it seems to have an indirect impact on burnout 2 via exposure to workplace violence. These results indicate a partial mediating effect of the exposure to violence on the relationship between emotional labour and burnout 2 and support past findings that emotional labour and exposure to violence might trigger burnout (Chen et al., ; Cheng et al., ; Choi & Lee, ; de Paiva, Canário, de Paiva, & Gonçalves, ; Edward et al., ; Erdur et al., ; Hong & Lee, ; Waschgler et al., ; Yoon & Sok, ; Zafar et al., ). More specifically, this finding suggests that workplace violence might compound on the already severe burden of emotional labour, thus aggravating clinical nurses’ burnout.…”

“…Other studies on nurses' burnout have reported that exposure to workplace violence is another factor influencing burnout (Chen, Lin, Ruan, Li, & Wu, 2016;Choi & Lee, 2017;Erdur et al, 2015; Waschgler, Ruiz-Hern andez, Llor-Esteban, & Garc ıa-Izquierdo, 2012; Yoon & Sok, 2016;Zafar, Khan, Siddiqui, Jamali, & Razzak, 2015).…”

The Patient Care Paradox: An Interprofessional Qualitative Study of Agitated Patient Care in the Emergency Department

“…First, we found that exposure to workplace violence incidents caused significant workplace distress for our staff members, in line with previous studies of ED nurses and physicians . However, of particular interest is our discovery of the patient care paradox, posing unique ethical and clinical challenges for the ED providers when faced with the impetus to spend extra effort to care for a marginalized group of patients that also perpetrates threats to staff personal safety.…”

“…First, we found that exposure to workplace violence incidents caused significant workplace distress for our staff members, in line with previous studies of ED nurses and physicians. 15,[28][29][30] However, of particular interest is our discovery of the patient care paradox, posing unique ethical and clinical challenges for the ED providers when faced with the impetus to spend extra effort to care for a marginalized group of patients that also perpetrates threats to staff personal safety. Current literature on appropriate management of behavioral emergencies in the ED recommends proper staff training on knowledge, skills, and attitudes in deescalation techniques, including nonconfrontational language, active listening, and attention to nonverbal cues and body language.…”

Workplace bullying and mental health among teachers in relation to psychosocial job characteristics and burnout

“…While the causes of burnout are complex, some studies have linked the experience of workplace violence with higher rates of burnout [12,20,21,38], but the interdependence of bullying with burnout on mental health is sometimes controversial.…”