Workplace Violence and the Mental Health of Public Health Workers During COVID-19

Tiesman, Hope M.; Hendricks, Scott; Wiegand, Douglas M.; Lopes-Cardozo, Barbara; Rao, Carol Y.; Horter, Libby; Rose, Charles E.; Byrkit, Ramona

doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2022.10.004

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“…Although direct comparisons should be made with caution, our findings suggest that public health workers in Taiwan were at a greater risk for workplace violence than their counterparts in other countries. For instance, an online survey of 26,174 US public health workers during the pandemic indicated that 32% had experienced any type or combination of workplace violence that encompassed discrimination, bullying, harassment, and job-related threats [ 5 , 7 ]. Furthermore, our findings indicated that public health workers in Taiwan appeared to experience more internal workplace violence than external workplace violence.…”

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“…In addition to workloads, public health workers were also prone to hostility, threats, and harassment from the public when implementing disease control measures that intervene in people's autonomy. A recent survey conducted in the U.S. indicated that 32% of public health workers had experienced workplace violence from the public [ 7 ]. Some studies have also shown that adverse psychosocial work conditions and mental distress during the pandemic have led many public health workers to leave their jobs [ 8 ].…”

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Psychosocial Work Conditions During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Influences on Mental Health Risk and Intention to Leave Among Public Health Workers: A Cross-sectional and Follow-up Study in Taiwan

Lin,

Wang,

Cheng

2023

Safety and Health at Work

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Psychosocial Work Conditions During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Influences on Mental Health Risk and Intention to Leave Among Public Health Workers: A Cross-sectional and Follow-up Study in Taiwan

Lin,

Wang,

Cheng

2023

Safety and Health at Work

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“…With the global pandemic of COVID-19, emergency public health events have become more frequent, seriously affecting the safety of people’s lives and property [ 11 , 12 , 13 ]. When such events occur, appropriate emergency decision-making methods are required to solve the problem to minimize its negative impact.…”

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Extended Multicriteria Group Decision Making with a Novel Aggregation Operator for Emergency Material Supplier Selection

Liu

Zhu

Yang

et al. 2023

Entropy

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How to ensure the normal production of industries in an uncertain emergency environment has aroused a lot of concern in society. Selecting the best emergency material suppliers using the multicriteria group decision making (MCGDM) method will ensure the normal production of industries in this environment. However, there are few studies in emergency environments that consider the impact of the decision order of decision makers (DMs) on the decision results. Therefore, in order to fill the research gap, we propose an extended MCGDM method, whose main steps include the following: Firstly, the DMs give their assessment of all alternatives. Secondly, we take the AHP method and entropy weight method to weight the criteria and the DMs. Thirdly, we take the intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid priority weight average (IFHPWA) operator we proposed to aggregate evaluation information and take the TOPSIS method to rank all the alternatives. Finally, the proposed method is applied in a case to prove its practicability and effectiveness. The proposed method considers the influence of the decision order of the DMs on the decision results, which improves the accuracy and efficiency of decision-making results.

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“…Studies have separately documented the mental sequelae from MV and COVID-19 for HPs who experienced these events (Devi, 2020 ; Rossi et al, 2021 ; Tiesman et al, 2022 ). However, evidence quantifying the impact of their interaction, particularly the spillover effects on HPs exposed to different risks, is limited (Tiesman et al, 2022 ). First, exogenous risks against HPs may bring broader impacts except for those who experienced risk events (Zhao et al, 2021 ), which have been claimed to be heterogeneously distributed among HPs (Lai et al, 2020 ).…”

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Spillover effects of violent attacks and COVID-19 exposure on mental health of health professionals: A two-phase quasi-natural experiments study in Northwest China

Liu,

Qian,

Zhang

et al. 2023

Camb. prisms Glob. ment. health

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The aims of this study were to examine the spillover effects of violent attacks, coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) exposure, and their interactions on health professionals' mental health, and the role of organizational support in their relationships in China. A two-phase survey data (n = 10,901) before and after the first outbreak of COVID-19 was integrated with regional macro data on the number of lawsuit cases of violent attacks and COVID-19 cases. Three studies were designed to isolate the general spillover impact of violent attacks on the mental health of health professionals, how COVID-19 affects the mental health of health professionals, and whether organizational support moderates the relationship between violent attacks and mental health through econometric regressions. Violent attacks and COVID-19 are negatively associated with the mental health of health professionals, and the outbreak of COVID-19 adversely deteriorates the spillover effects of violent attacks. Physicians, not nurses, are the most affected group. Better perceived support from hospitals can significantly mitigate the adverse effects of COVID-19, violent attacks, and their interactions on the mental health of health professionals. COVID-19 deteriorates the adverse effects of violent attacks on the mental health of health professionals, while better organizational support is helpful to mitigate these effects. Impact statementsTo the best of our knowledge, this study is the first use of micro-macro data systematically estimating the spillover effects of violent attacks, coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) cases, and their interaction, on the mental health of health professionals in China. It also documents the importance of hospital support in mitigating mental health deterioration in workplaces. Using data from one of the least developed provinces in China, we provide empirical evidence of adverse spillover effects of violent attacks, COVID-19, and their interaction on the mental health of health professionals in China, where support from hospitals is crucial. Most importantly, we estimate a bottom-line situation in China, and then a worse national situation can be speculated. Our findings support studies discussing the adverse effects of violent attacks or COVID-19 on the mental health of health professionals. Particularly, we empirically evidence that COVID-19 can deteriorate the adverse effects of violent attacks, where the adverse effects can spill but are not limited to those who bear the damage. In mitigating and recovering from the adverse spillover effects on the mental health of health professionals incurred by violent attacks or COVID-19 and their interaction, support from hospitals is another crucial channel other than individual-level interventions. Our experience from one of the least developed provinces of China may be nationally or even globally generalized.

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Workplace Violence and the Mental Health of Public Health Workers During COVID-19

Cited by 22 publications

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Psychosocial Work Conditions During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Influences on Mental Health Risk and Intention to Leave Among Public Health Workers: A Cross-sectional and Follow-up Study in Taiwan

Psychosocial Work Conditions During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Influences on Mental Health Risk and Intention to Leave Among Public Health Workers: A Cross-sectional and Follow-up Study in Taiwan

Extended Multicriteria Group Decision Making with a Novel Aggregation Operator for Emergency Material Supplier Selection

Spillover effects of violent attacks and COVID-19 exposure on mental health of health professionals: A two-phase quasi-natural experiments study in Northwest China

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