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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Campbell, Jacquelyn C
• Messing, Jill Theresa
• Kub, Joan
• Agnew, Jacqueline
• Fitzgerald, Sheila
• Fowler, Barbara
• Sheridan, Daniel
• Lindauer, Cathleen
• Deaton, Jo
• Bolyard, Richelle

Titel

Workplace violence: prevalence and risk factors in the safe at work study

Ist Teil von

• Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, 2011-01, Vol.53 (1), p.82-89

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Nurses face one of the highest rates of reported workplace violence (WPV). This research examined the prevalence of WPV and demographic, work-related, and adult and childhood abuse histories as risk factors for WPV among 2166 nurses/nursing personnel across four health care institutions in one US metropolitan area. Using data from an online cross-sectional survey, multivariate logistic regression was utilized to determine risk factors for physical and psychological WPV. Almost one-third (30%) of nurses/nursing personnel experienced WPV (19.4% physical, 19.9% psychological). Risk factors included being a nurse, white, male, working in the emergency department, older age, longer employment, childhood abuse, and intimate partner violence. Adult and childhood abuse histories have not been considered in previous large-scale investigations, but were significant risk factors along with other previously identified risk factors for WPV.