The effects of Workplace violence on healthcare workers in Tunisia
Introduction Exposure to violence affects employees and has implications for the quality of care provided. Objectives This study aims to describe the effects of workplace violence on nurses in psychiatric and emergency departments. Methods This was a cross-sectional and descriptive study involvin...
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| author | M. Mnif N. Smaoui R. Feki I. Gassara S. Omri M. Maalej N. Charfi J. Ben Thabet L. Zouari M. Maalej |
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Introduction
Exposure to violence affects employees and has implications for the quality of care provided.
Objectives
This study aims to describe the effects of workplace violence on nurses in psychiatric and emergency departments.
Methods
This was a cross-sectional and descriptive study involving 60 nurses practising in the psychiatry and emergency services at the Hedi Chaker and Habib Borguiba University Hospital in Sfax. We collected the socio-demographic and professional data of the participants using a pre-established questionnaire.
Results
The average age was 35 years and 51 % of respondents were female. Ninety-three percent of the respondents were victims of an act of violence. The violence was verbal in 90%, physical in 70%, psychological in 62% and sexual in 11% of cases. The classification of acts of violence according to the scale of seriousness of the national observatory of violence in health care revealed a predominance of level 1 violence characterised by insults (66%) and level 2 violence with threats to physical integrity (65%). Level 3 violence (physical violence) was the most frequent (70%). Two cases of level 4 violence with knives were reported. These acts of violence generated wounds in 21%, fractures in 10%, haematomas in 10% and bruises in 8% of cases. Thirty-six nurses (60%) reported that the act of violence was responsible for a feeling of insecurity.
Conclusions
The results of this study indicate the need for hospital center managers to set up organizational policies against workplace violence and to apply them in a rigorous and transparent manner.
Disclosure
No significant relationships.
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| spelling | doaj.art-dd273d08b3ab4ff4a1b9e3f8c8c6590e2023-11-17T05:06:36ZengCambridge University PressEuropean Psychiatry0924-93381778-35852022-06-0165S697S69710.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.1794The effects of Workplace violence on healthcare workers in TunisiaM. Mnif0N. Smaoui1R. Feki2I. Gassara3S. Omri4M. Maalej5N. Charfi6J. Ben Thabet7L. Zouari8M. Maalej9Hedi Chaker University Hospital, Psychiatry C, Sfax, TunisiaHedi Chaker University Hospital, Psychiatry C, Sfax, TunisiaHedi Chaker University Hospital, Psychiatry C, Sfax, TunisiaHedi Chaker University Hospital, Psychiatry C, Sfax, TunisiaHedi Chaker University Hospital, Psychiatry C, Sfax, TunisiaHedi Chaker University Hospital, Psychiatry C, Sfax, TunisiaHedi Chaker University Hospital, Psychiatry C, Sfax, TunisiaHedi Chaker University Hospital, Psychiatry C, Sfax, TunisiaHedi Chaker University Hospital, Psychiatry C, Sfax, TunisiaHedi Chaker University Hospital, Psychiatry C, Sfax, Tunisia Introduction Exposure to violence affects employees and has implications for the quality of care provided. Objectives This study aims to describe the effects of workplace violence on nurses in psychiatric and emergency departments. Methods This was a cross-sectional and descriptive study involving 60 nurses practising in the psychiatry and emergency services at the Hedi Chaker and Habib Borguiba University Hospital in Sfax. We collected the socio-demographic and professional data of the participants using a pre-established questionnaire. Results The average age was 35 years and 51 % of respondents were female. Ninety-three percent of the respondents were victims of an act of violence. The violence was verbal in 90%, physical in 70%, psychological in 62% and sexual in 11% of cases. The classification of acts of violence according to the scale of seriousness of the national observatory of violence in health care revealed a predominance of level 1 violence characterised by insults (66%) and level 2 violence with threats to physical integrity (65%). Level 3 violence (physical violence) was the most frequent (70%). Two cases of level 4 violence with knives were reported. These acts of violence generated wounds in 21%, fractures in 10%, haematomas in 10% and bruises in 8% of cases. Thirty-six nurses (60%) reported that the act of violence was responsible for a feeling of insecurity. Conclusions The results of this study indicate the need for hospital center managers to set up organizational policies against workplace violence and to apply them in a rigorous and transparent manner. Disclosure No significant relationships. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0924933822017941/type/journal_articlehealthcare workersviolence |
| spellingShingle | M. Mnif N. Smaoui R. Feki I. Gassara S. Omri M. Maalej N. Charfi J. Ben Thabet L. Zouari M. Maalej The effects of Workplace violence on healthcare workers in Tunisia European Psychiatry healthcare workers violence |
| title | The effects of Workplace violence on healthcare workers in Tunisia |
| title_full | The effects of Workplace violence on healthcare workers in Tunisia |
| title_fullStr | The effects of Workplace violence on healthcare workers in Tunisia |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effects of Workplace violence on healthcare workers in Tunisia |
| title_short | The effects of Workplace violence on healthcare workers in Tunisia |
| title_sort | effects of workplace violence on healthcare workers in tunisia |
| topic | healthcare workers violence |
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