Workplace violence against healthcare professionals in a multiethnic area: a cross-sectional study in southwest China
Objective The purpose of this study is to examine workplace violence (WPV) towards healthcare professionals in a multiethnic area in China, including prevalence, influencing factors, healthcare professionals’ response to WPV, expected antiviolence training measures and content, and evaluation of WPV...
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| author | Ying Wang Qunhong Wu Mingli Jiao Kexin Jiang Huiying Fang Yameng Wang Haonan Jia Ruohui Chen Lifeng Wei Gangyu Zhang Yuanheng Li Jingqun Li Xiaowen Jia Omar Yacouba Ismael Jingfu Mao |
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| description | Objective The purpose of this study is to examine workplace violence (WPV) towards healthcare professionals in a multiethnic area in China, including prevalence, influencing factors, healthcare professionals’ response to WPV, expected antiviolence training measures and content, and evaluation of WPV interventions.Design A cross-sectional study.Setting A grade III, class A hospital in the capital of Yunnan Province, which is the province with the most diverse ethnic minority groups in China.Participants In total, 2036 healthcare professionals participated, with a response rate of 83.79%.Results The prevalence of physical and psychological violence was 5.5% and 43.7%, respectively. Healthcare professionals of ethnic minority were more likely to experience psychological violence (OR=1.54, 95% CI 1.16 to 2.05). Stratified by gender, male healthcare professionals of ethnic minority suffered from more physical violence (OR=3.31, 95% CI 1.12 to 9.79), while female healthcare professionals suffered from psychological violence (OR=1.71, 95% CI 1.24 to 2.36). We also found a unique work situation in China: overtime duty on-call work (18:00–07:00) was a risk factor for psychological violence (OR=1.40, 95% CI 1.02 to 1.93). Healthcare professionals of ethnic minority are less likely to order perpetrators to stop or to report to superiors when faced with psychological violence. They are also more interested in receiving training in force skills and self-defence. Both Han and ethnic minority participants considered security measures as the most useful intervention, while changing the time of shift the most useless one.Conclusion Our study comprehensively described WPV towards healthcare professionals in a multiethnic minority area. More research on WPV conducted in multiethnic areas is needed. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-667d41bf4d2345009742ae028588577c2025-01-07T10:40:11ZengBMJ Publishing GroupBMJ Open2044-60552020-09-0110910.1136/bmjopen-2020-037464Workplace violence against healthcare professionals in a multiethnic area: a cross-sectional study in southwest ChinaYing Wang0Qunhong Wu1Mingli Jiao2Kexin Jiang3Huiying Fang4Yameng Wang5Haonan Jia6Ruohui Chen7Lifeng Wei8Gangyu Zhang9Yuanheng Li10Jingqun Li11Xiaowen Jia12Omar Yacouba Ismael13Jingfu Mao14Global Health Research Center, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, Jiangsu, ChinaSchool of Health Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, ChinaHealth Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, ChinaMedical Department, General Hospital of Heilongjiang Agricultural Reclamation, Harbin, Heilongjiang, ChinaChongqing Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology and Epigenetics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, ChinaDepartment of Health Policy and Hospital Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, ChinaDepartment of Medical Affairs, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China1 Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, USADepartment of Health Policy and Hospital Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, ChinaDepartment of Health Policy and Hospital Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, ChinaDepartment of Health Policy and Hospital Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, ChinaDepartment of Cardiology, No 1 People’s Hospital of Heihe, Heihe, Heilongjiang, ChinaDepartment of General Surgery, No 1 People’s Hospital of Heihe, Heihe, Heilongjiang, ChinaDepartment of Health Policy and Hospital Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, ChinaDepartment of Human Resource Management, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, ChinaObjective The purpose of this study is to examine workplace violence (WPV) towards healthcare professionals in a multiethnic area in China, including prevalence, influencing factors, healthcare professionals’ response to WPV, expected antiviolence training measures and content, and evaluation of WPV interventions.Design A cross-sectional study.Setting A grade III, class A hospital in the capital of Yunnan Province, which is the province with the most diverse ethnic minority groups in China.Participants In total, 2036 healthcare professionals participated, with a response rate of 83.79%.Results The prevalence of physical and psychological violence was 5.5% and 43.7%, respectively. Healthcare professionals of ethnic minority were more likely to experience psychological violence (OR=1.54, 95% CI 1.16 to 2.05). Stratified by gender, male healthcare professionals of ethnic minority suffered from more physical violence (OR=3.31, 95% CI 1.12 to 9.79), while female healthcare professionals suffered from psychological violence (OR=1.71, 95% CI 1.24 to 2.36). We also found a unique work situation in China: overtime duty on-call work (18:00–07:00) was a risk factor for psychological violence (OR=1.40, 95% CI 1.02 to 1.93). Healthcare professionals of ethnic minority are less likely to order perpetrators to stop or to report to superiors when faced with psychological violence. They are also more interested in receiving training in force skills and self-defence. Both Han and ethnic minority participants considered security measures as the most useful intervention, while changing the time of shift the most useless one.Conclusion Our study comprehensively described WPV towards healthcare professionals in a multiethnic minority area. More research on WPV conducted in multiethnic areas is needed.https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/9/e037464.full |
| spellingShingle | Ying Wang Qunhong Wu Mingli Jiao Kexin Jiang Huiying Fang Yameng Wang Haonan Jia Ruohui Chen Lifeng Wei Gangyu Zhang Yuanheng Li Jingqun Li Xiaowen Jia Omar Yacouba Ismael Jingfu Mao Workplace violence against healthcare professionals in a multiethnic area: a cross-sectional study in southwest China BMJ Open |
| title | Workplace violence against healthcare professionals in a multiethnic area: a cross-sectional study in southwest China |
| title_full | Workplace violence against healthcare professionals in a multiethnic area: a cross-sectional study in southwest China |
| title_fullStr | Workplace violence against healthcare professionals in a multiethnic area: a cross-sectional study in southwest China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Workplace violence against healthcare professionals in a multiethnic area: a cross-sectional study in southwest China |
| title_short | Workplace violence against healthcare professionals in a multiethnic area: a cross-sectional study in southwest China |
| title_sort | workplace violence against healthcare professionals in a multiethnic area a cross sectional study in southwest china |
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