Workplace Bullying and Its Associated Factors Among Medical Doctors in Residency Training in a Tertiary Health Institution in Plateau State Nigeria
BackgroundBullying is public health problem globally in workplaces with untold deleterious effects on the health and well-being of individuals at the receiving end. Bullying has been found to disrupt social interaction at workplace thereby creating an unhealthy and seemingly unproductive work enviro...
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| author | Tolulope O. Afolaranmi Tolulope O. Afolaranmi Zuwaira I. Hassan Zuwaira I. Hassan Benjamin M. Gokir Abdulrahman Kilani Raphael Igboke Kainechukwu G. Ugwu Chikwendu Amaike Akinyemi O. D. Ofakunrin |
| author_facet | Tolulope O. Afolaranmi Tolulope O. Afolaranmi Zuwaira I. Hassan Zuwaira I. Hassan Benjamin M. Gokir Abdulrahman Kilani Raphael Igboke Kainechukwu G. Ugwu Chikwendu Amaike Akinyemi O. D. Ofakunrin |
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| description | BackgroundBullying is public health problem globally in workplaces with untold deleterious effects on the health and well-being of individuals at the receiving end. Bullying has been found to disrupt social interaction at workplace thereby creating an unhealthy and seemingly unproductive work environment. Studies have reported varying rates of workplace bullying as high as 83% in Europe, 65% in the Americas and 55% in Asia with very little documented in the contemporary African setting and Nigeria in particular. It therefore became imperative to assess the level of bullying and its associated factors among medical doctors in residency training in a tertiary health institution in Plateau state Nigeria.MethodologyThis was a cross sectional study conducted among resident doctors in Jos University Teaching Hospital between November 2019 and February 2020 using quantitative method of data collection and SPSS version 20 was used for data analysis. Crude and adjusted odds ratios as well as 95% confidence interval were used in this study with a p-value of ≤0.05 considered statistically significant.ResultsThe mean age of the respondents was 32.3 ± 3.9 years with 78 (62.9%) being 31 years and above. Bullying was currently being experienced by 74 (59.7%) of the respondents with verbal aggression and threats as well as insult and use of derogatory remarks being the forms of bullying experienced by 85.1 and 74.3% of the respondents, respectively. Furthermore, witnessing a colleague being bullied was the sole factor found to be significantly associated with workplace bullying (AOR = 0.18; 95% CI = 0.068–0.449; p < 0.001).ConclusionWorkplace bullying has been found to be in existence and relatively high among medical doctors in residency training in this setting with witnessing someone being bullied as its sole associated factor. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3c2755088e264ac0ae98b8175a070cd42022-12-21T19:42:42ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652022-01-01910.3389/fpubh.2021.812979812979Workplace Bullying and Its Associated Factors Among Medical Doctors in Residency Training in a Tertiary Health Institution in Plateau State NigeriaTolulope O. Afolaranmi0Tolulope O. Afolaranmi1Zuwaira I. Hassan2Zuwaira I. Hassan3Benjamin M. Gokir4Abdulrahman Kilani5Raphael Igboke6Kainechukwu G. Ugwu7Chikwendu Amaike8Akinyemi O. D. Ofakunrin9Department of Community Medicine, University of Jos, Jos, NigeriaDepartment of Community Medicine, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, NigeriaDepartment of Community Medicine, University of Jos, Jos, NigeriaDepartment of Community Medicine, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, NigeriaFaculty of Clinical Sciences, University of Jos, Jos, NigeriaFaculty of Clinical Sciences, University of Jos, Jos, NigeriaFaculty of Clinical Sciences, University of Jos, Jos, NigeriaGinza Medical Centre, Jos, NigeriaDepartment of Community Medicine, College of Health and Medical Sciences, Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, NigeriaDepartment of Pediatrics University of Jos, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, NigeriaBackgroundBullying is public health problem globally in workplaces with untold deleterious effects on the health and well-being of individuals at the receiving end. Bullying has been found to disrupt social interaction at workplace thereby creating an unhealthy and seemingly unproductive work environment. Studies have reported varying rates of workplace bullying as high as 83% in Europe, 65% in the Americas and 55% in Asia with very little documented in the contemporary African setting and Nigeria in particular. It therefore became imperative to assess the level of bullying and its associated factors among medical doctors in residency training in a tertiary health institution in Plateau state Nigeria.MethodologyThis was a cross sectional study conducted among resident doctors in Jos University Teaching Hospital between November 2019 and February 2020 using quantitative method of data collection and SPSS version 20 was used for data analysis. Crude and adjusted odds ratios as well as 95% confidence interval were used in this study with a p-value of ≤0.05 considered statistically significant.ResultsThe mean age of the respondents was 32.3 ± 3.9 years with 78 (62.9%) being 31 years and above. Bullying was currently being experienced by 74 (59.7%) of the respondents with verbal aggression and threats as well as insult and use of derogatory remarks being the forms of bullying experienced by 85.1 and 74.3% of the respondents, respectively. Furthermore, witnessing a colleague being bullied was the sole factor found to be significantly associated with workplace bullying (AOR = 0.18; 95% CI = 0.068–0.449; p < 0.001).ConclusionWorkplace bullying has been found to be in existence and relatively high among medical doctors in residency training in this setting with witnessing someone being bullied as its sole associated factor.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.812979/fullworkplacebullyingassociated factorsmedical doctorsresidency trainingtertiary health institution |
| spellingShingle | Tolulope O. Afolaranmi Tolulope O. Afolaranmi Zuwaira I. Hassan Zuwaira I. Hassan Benjamin M. Gokir Abdulrahman Kilani Raphael Igboke Kainechukwu G. Ugwu Chikwendu Amaike Akinyemi O. D. Ofakunrin Workplace Bullying and Its Associated Factors Among Medical Doctors in Residency Training in a Tertiary Health Institution in Plateau State Nigeria Frontiers in Public Health workplace bullying associated factors medical doctors residency training tertiary health institution |
| title | Workplace Bullying and Its Associated Factors Among Medical Doctors in Residency Training in a Tertiary Health Institution in Plateau State Nigeria |
| title_full | Workplace Bullying and Its Associated Factors Among Medical Doctors in Residency Training in a Tertiary Health Institution in Plateau State Nigeria |
| title_fullStr | Workplace Bullying and Its Associated Factors Among Medical Doctors in Residency Training in a Tertiary Health Institution in Plateau State Nigeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Workplace Bullying and Its Associated Factors Among Medical Doctors in Residency Training in a Tertiary Health Institution in Plateau State Nigeria |
| title_short | Workplace Bullying and Its Associated Factors Among Medical Doctors in Residency Training in a Tertiary Health Institution in Plateau State Nigeria |
| title_sort | workplace bullying and its associated factors among medical doctors in residency training in a tertiary health institution in plateau state nigeria |
| topic | workplace bullying associated factors medical doctors residency training tertiary health institution |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.812979/full |
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