Workplace violence status, vulnerable and preventive factors among nurses working in psychiatric wards
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M Fallahi Khoshknab , Z Tamizi , N Ghazanfari |
Department of Nursing, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. (Corresponding author) , msflir@yahoo.com |
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Abstract: (18114 Views) |
Introduction: Workplace violence is one of the issues that nurses face in clinical practice, which needs to be studied. One of the most eventful clinical environments is a psychiatric ward. The aim of this study was to determine workplace violence status, vulnerable
and preventive factors among nurses working in psychiatric wards. Materials and Methods: In this study, 183 nurses were selected from psychiatric wards
in Razi Psychiatric Center in
Tehran, by simple random sampling. Data gathered with
"International Workplace Violence Questionnaire". The
questionnaire contains 4 subscales, physical, mental, sexual and rational
violence and three open ended questions. Content and face validity were measured by opinion of experts and
reliability was confirmed by test-retest (r=0.73).Data
analyzed with descriptive statistics methods by SPSS/18. Findings: Prevalence of workplace violence was 71% in one year
period. Physical and psychological violence, respectively, with a frequency of 4.93% and 6.71%, respectively racial and sexual violence,
respectively, with a frequency of 1.19%,
and 5.5% lower than
subjects who had suffered
violence. Majority of samples’ reaction (39.9%) was to
calm the aggressive person. Furthermore,
most of them (61.2%) supposed that providing educational course of violence
control and 59.6% thought that providing
a management system to report control is necessary. Conclusion: Psychiatric
nurses permanently exposed to a variety of physical and verbal violence. Providing function for prevention is
suggested. |
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Keywords: Workplace violence, Nursing, Psychiatric nurse, psychiatric ward. |
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Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
health services management Received: 2013/05/29 | Accepted: 2013/06/17 | Published: 2013/06/17
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