چکیده:
INTRODUCTION: Being exposed to violence at workplace is threatening to healthcare staff.
Increasingly violence has been cited by nurses as the most important reason for leaving nursing
profession. The current study aims to study the status of violence against medical staff of psychiatric
hospitals affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences.
METHODOLOGY: This study is a descriptive‑applied research which studied 151 nurses
working in Farabi and Khorshid hospitals in 2015. The tool for information gathering which was
a standardized questionnaire on “workplace violence against medical staff” was filled in by the
respondents. The study’s questionnaire includes demographic information and two types of
violence and abuse: physical and emotional (verbal aggression, bullying, racial, and ethnic).
Chi‑square test, t‑test, and analysis of variance and logistic regression tests were used for
statistical data analysis of answers.
RESULTS: The results indicate that 58.9% of nurses have experienced physical violence while
81.4%, 32.4%, and 7.3% have been exposed to verbal violence, workplace bullying, and racial and
ethnic violence, respectively. The most cases of violence have been perpetrated by patients and their
families or companions. There was not a significant relation between likelihood of being exposed
to different types of workplace violence and the hospital, level of physical contact with patient, and
patient gender.
CONCLUSION: Given the rate of reported violence in medical centers, the health authorities should
make every effort to reduce healthcare‑related abuse and violence through using of proper preventive
strategies, proper management, taking safety measures, and increasing public awareness about
all aspects of the issue.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The study's questionnaire includes demographic information and two types of violence and abuse: physical and emotional (verbal aggression, bullying, racial, and ethnic).
There was not a significant relation between likelihood of being exposed to different types of workplace violence and the hospital, level of physical contact with patient, and patient gender.
*’ ’* Studies conducted in Iran also indicate that in Ham Province, 80% of nurses have been exposed to verbal aggression while more than 10% have experienced physical abuse.
'"* In Tehran, 26% of nurses experienced at least one verbal abuse and bullying in the past year, and 33% did not experience any mental violence in the workplace.
'”' Some studies have suggested that being exposed to workplace violence has a significant relation with some variables including age, marital status, the hospital ward they work in, their work shifts, type of employment, and gender of patients so that young female health workers are more likely to experience verbal aggression than men.
The survey has studied the prevalence of all kinds of workplace violence against psychiatry wards health staff in Farabi, Noor, and Ali Asghar (all hospitals are affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences) Hospitals in Isfahan.
On the other hand, investigation of nursing staff response and reaction to violence based on the type of the violence indicated that in 42 cases of physical abuse, 47.
Similarly, in a large number of studies, verbal and physical violence were perpetrated by patients and their companions, while most cases of ethnic and sexual violence were by clinic staff, physicians, and nurses.