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Workplace violence in a tertiary care Israeli hospital - a systematic analysis of the types of violence, the perpetrators and hospital departments

Overview of attention for article published in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, August 2017
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Title
Workplace violence in a tertiary care Israeli hospital - a systematic analysis of the types of violence, the perpetrators and hospital departments
Published in
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, August 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13584-017-0168-x
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Authors

Sigal Shafran-Tikva, Revital Zelker, Zvi Stern, David Chinitz

Abstract

Worldwide, there is a widespread and disturbing pattern of violence towards healthcare workers. However, violent occurrences in Israeli hospitals have often been unrecognized and underreported. Moreover, most studies have not sufficiently differentiated among the different types of violence. To examine the different types of violence experienced by nurses and physicians, the types of perpetrators and the specialty fields involved. A quantitative questionnaire was used to assess the incidence of a "basket" of violent behaviors, divided into eight types of violent manifestations. The study population consisted of 729 physicians and nurses in a variety of hospital divisions and departments (surgery, oncology, intensive care, ambulatory services including day care, and emergency room) in a large general hospital. Six hundred seventy-eight of them responded to the survey for a response rate of 93%; about two thirds of respondents (446) were nurses and about one third (232) were physicians. The questionnaires were completed during staff meetings and through subsequent follow-up efforts. In the 6 months preceding the survey, the respondents experienced about 700 incidents of passive aggressive behavior, 680 of verbal violence and 81 of sexual harassment. Types of violence differed between patients and companions; for example, the latter exhibited more verbal, threatening and passive aggressive behaviors. Violence was reported in all departments (ranging from 52-96%), with the departments most exposed to violence being the emergency room and outpatient clinics. Nurses in the emergency room were 5.5 times at a higher risk of being exposed to violence than nurses in the internal medicine department. Nurses were exposed to violence almost twice as much as physicians. There was a positive association between the physician's rank and his/her exposure to violence. A multiple regression model found that being older reduced the risk of being exposed to violence, for both physicians and nurses. These findings suggest that uniform definitions of a range of different violent behaviors and assessments of their prevalence are important to creating an improved discourse about hospital violence in both research and operational settings. The study findings could assist policy makers in the Israeli healthcare system in implementing interventions on a national level and can promote leaders' commitment to violence prevention and management. This is an important contribution, as executive commitment is necessary and critical for the necessary organizational changes to occur.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 166 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 24 14%
Researcher 15 9%
Student > Bachelor 14 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 7%
Other 30 18%
Unknown 58 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 43 26%
Medicine and Dentistry 28 17%
Psychology 13 8%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 2%
Other 16 10%
Unknown 59 36%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 41. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 December 2021.
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#837,841
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Outputs from Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
#10
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Outputs of similar age from Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
#1
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