Department of Nursing, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. , msflir@yahoo.com
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Introduction:
Workplace violence (WPV)in the health care setting
has become an important issue in recent years. Researches show that nurses
encounter with the highest rate of violence in the workplace. Although numerous
studies have been conducted in this area in Iran, however, there is no
consensus that reflects the current status and future research needs. The aim
of this study was to determine the status of workplace violence against Iranian
nurses.
Materials and Methods: In a
systematic review, all papers published during last decade (2004-2013) in both
Persian and English language regarding WPV against Iranian nurses were
included. Magiran, SID, IranMedex, IranDoc, PubMed, Science Direct, Ovid,Google
Scholar, CINAHL databases were searched using the terms: Workplace Violence, Nurse,
Iran. In addition to databases, national data were
used. Also,"Data Extraction Form"
which developed based on research aim, was used for data collection. From
31 related papers and research projects, 10 articles were excluded due to lack
of inclusion criteria. Finally, 21 papers and research projects were included
in this study.
Findings: 19
of 21 articles (90.5%) were from descriptive studies, only two of them (9.5%) were qualitative study and there was no intervention study.
Eight of researches (38%) were conducted in Tehran, 10 of them (47.5%) using the “Workplace Violence in the Health Sector
Questionnaire” developed by World Health Organization, 3 studies (14%) were conducted on nursing students and others were carried out
on nurses. Nurses are exposed to significant rate of various types of workplace
violence especially verbal violence. Also, five main concepts were derived from
the literature review including: Characteristics of Workplace
Violence,Characteristics ofnurses andtheir
reactionto violence, predisposing factors, preventive
factors and reporting rate and reasons for under-reporting.
Conclusion:
Based on the results, prevalence of workplace violence against nurses is a
serious problem. Preventive actions in order to control workplace violence is an essential requirement. Also, due to the lack of
intervention studies, future research must move from descriptive to
intervention studies in order to provide a guideline in clinical settings.
Najafi F, Fallahi-Khoshknab M, Dalvandi A, Ahmadi F, Rahgozar M. Workplace violence against Iranian nurses: A systematic review. JHPM 2014; 3 (2) :72-85 URL: http://jhpm.ir/article-1-243-en.html