Workplace violence intervention effectiveness: A systematic literature review

Workplace Violence in Emergency Medicine: Current Knowledge and Future Directions

“…A recent systematic review of WPV interventions in other health care settings such as forensic hospitals, state-supported mental hospitals, long-term care facilities, community homes, and Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals, found that few individual-level interventions were evaluated for effectiveness at all, and those that were evaluated did not use a rigorous design (34). One systematic review of WPV in which individual level interventions in health care settings (training and techniques of dealing with combative patients in ED, geriatric or nursing homes, and mental health facilities) were the focus, found that although such programs increase knowledge and confidence to deal with violent episodes, they do not necessarily demonstrate a reduction in assaults (37). Further ED-specific research is needed to identify essential, effective components of training, using assaults as an outcome measure.…”

Injuries of Three Health Care Districts Employees in Finland

“…Almost half of the workplace violence towards women occurred in care settings [31]. The patient-health care provider relationship is the key to preventing violence in health care [32].…”

Characteristics of Staff Victims of Psychiatric Patient Assaults: 20-Year Analysis of the Assaulted Staff Action Program

“…Studies are usually short in duration and retrospective in nature. The field would benefit greatly from long-term prospective studies that included clear, standardized operational definitions of assault types, the inclusion of all staff victims groupings, a common typology for injuries, and a standardized rating scale for assessment of severity of impact of the assault [19]. The assault types should include verbal threats, as this form of assault may linger over time in the staff victim's awareness.…”