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Title: | Workplace violence towards nurses in Hong Kong : prevalence and correlates | Authors: | Cheung, T Yip, PSF |
Issue Date: | 2017 | Source: | BMC public health, 2017, v. 17, 196 | Abstract: | Background: Nurses are especially vulnerable to violent and other forms of aggression in the workplace. Nonetheless, few population-based studies of workplace violence have been undertaken among working-age nurse professionals in Hong Kong in the last decade. Methods: The study estimates the prevalence and examines the socio-economic and psychological correlates of workplace violence (WPV) among professional nurses in Hong Kong. The study uses a cross-sectional survey design. Multivariate logistic regression examines the weighted prevalence rates of WPV and its associated factors for a population of nurses. Results: A total of 850 nurses participated in the study. 44.6% had experienced WPV in the preceding year. Male nurses reported more WPV than their female counterparts. The most common forms of WPV were verbal abuse/bullying (39.2%), then physical assault (22.7%) and sexual harassment (1.1%). The most common perpetrators of WPV were patients (36.6%) and their relatives (17.5%), followed by colleagues (7.7%) and supervisors (6.3%). Clinical position, shift work, job satisfaction, recent disturbances with colleagues, deliberate self-harm (DSH) and symptoms of anxiety were significantly correlated with WPV for nurses. Conclusions: WPV remains a significant concern for healthcare worldwide. Hong Kong's local health authority should put in place a raft of zero-tolerance measures to prevent WPV in healthcare settings. |
Keywords: | Cross-sectional DASS(21) Nurses Occupational hazards Workplace violence Public health Hong Kong |
Publisher: | BioMed Central | Journal: | BMC public health | EISSN: | 1471-2458 | DOI: | 10.1186/s12889-017-4112-3 | Rights: | Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver(http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. Cheung, T., & Yip, P. S. (2017). Workplace violence towards nurses in Hong Kong: prevalence and correlates. BMC public health, 17(1), 196 is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4112-3 |
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