Assessment of the Frequency, Causes, Degree and Consequences of Violence against Health Workers in Psychiatric Institutions by Zoran Jovanovic, Ana Opankovic, Srdjan Milovanovic, Jasmina Barisic, Tamara Nikolic Turnic, Dusan Djuric

“…We observed the statistical significance of gender, age, working status (permanent/limited) and professional status (physician/medical technician/worker etc.) on physical attack incidence. (5) Conclusions: The incidence of violence against healthcare workers is very high, especially in terms of physical assault and threats in the workplace. The majority of the victims were women who work as medical technicians, attacked by male patients with unknown motivation. …”
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Italian version of the Occupational Depression Inventory: Validity, reliability, and associations with health, economic, and work-life characteristics by Renzo Bianchi, Caterina Fiorilli, Giacomo Angelini, Nicoletta Dozio, Carlo Palazzi, Gloria Palazzi, Benedetto Vitiello, Benedetto Vitiello, Irvin Sam Schonfeld

“…Occupational depression was negatively associated with general wellbeing and positively associated with a 12-month history of depressive disorder, current antidepressant intake, 12-month sick leave, 6-month physical assault at work, 6-month verbal abuse at work, lack of money for leisure activities, and financial strain in the household.ConclusionsThe ODI's Italian version exhibits robust psychometric and structural properties, suggesting that the instrument can be fruitfully used for addressing job-related distress in Italian-speaking populations. …”
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Trauma exposure and psychometric properties of the life events checklist among adults in South Africa by Anne Stevenson, Marine Beltran, Supriya Misra, Amantia A. Ametaj, Aletta Bronkhorst, Bizu Gelaye, Karestan C. Koenen, Adele Pretorius, Dan J. Stein, Zukiswa Zingela

“…The most endorsed item was physical assault (65.0%), followed by assault with a weapon (50.2%). …”
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Mental healthcare for young and adolescent LGBTQ+ individuals in the Indian subcontinent by Prithvi Sanjeevkumar Gaur, Sreoshy Saha, Ashish Goel, Pavel Ovseiko, Shelley Aggarwal, Vikas Agarwal, Atiq Ul Haq, Debashish Danda, Andrew Hartle, Nimrat Kaur Sandhu, Latika Gupta, Latika Gupta, Latika Gupta, Latika Gupta

“…They feared rejection by family and friends, bullying, physical assault, and religious biases. These issues prevented them from publicly speaking about their sexual orientation thereby making it difficult to collect reliable data. …”
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2266 Big data approaches in translational science: The influence of psychiatric and trauma history in predicting smoking during pregnancy in a cohort of female like-sex twin pairs by Alexandra N. Houston-Ludlam, Julia D. Grant, Kathleen K. Bucholz, Pamela A. F. Madden, Andrew C. Heath

“…METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Using women from the Missouri Adolescent Female Twin Study, parental report of twin ADHD inattentive and hyperactive symptoms at twin median age 15, and twin report of DSM-IV lifetime diagnosis of major depressive disorder, trauma exposure (physical assault and childhood sexual abuse), collected at median age 22, were merged with Missouri birth record data for enrolled twins, leading to 1553 individuals of European ancestry and 163 individuals of African-American ancestry included in final analyses. …”
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Effect of Problem-solving Skills Training on Domestic Violence in Infertile Women: A Quasi-experimental Study by Mahboobeh Mirahmadian, Maryam Maadi Esfahan, Shima Haghani, Fahimeh Ranjbar

“…Results: Totally, 38 participants in the control group and 34 in the intervention group were followed up. Physical assault, psychological aggression, sexual coercion, sustained injury, and the negotiation did not show significant differences between the two groups before and after intervention (P>0.05). …”
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Violence Against Paramedics: Protocol for Evaluating 2 Years of Reports Through a Novel, Point-of-Event Reporting Process by Justin Mausz, Elizabeth A Donnelly

“…Early analysis suggests 40% of reports involved a physical assault on the reporting paramedic. Our team is continuing to collect data with more fulsome analyses beginning in March 2023. …”
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Psychosocial challenges and coping strategies among people with minority gender and sexual identities in Zambia: health promotion and human rights implications by Mataanana Mulavu, J. Anitha Menon, Chama Mulubwa, Tulani Francis L. Matenga, Hoa Nguyen, Karen MacDonell, Bo Wang, Oliver Mweemba

“…Thematic analysis was carried out with the aid of Nvivo 12 software.Results Psychosocial challenges included victimization in the form of threats and physical assault. Stigma and discrimination were experienced in different settings such as healthcare, the workplace, and school. …”
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Prevalence of workplace violence in Chinese obstetric nurses under the new situation and its correlation with violence prevention knowledge-attitude-practice and climate perception... by Shan Huang, Jinguo Zhai, Xiaoqin Lu, Yulian Liang, Qiumei Li, Hamza Saidi Lilenga

“…Results Totally, 522 Chinese obstetric nurses were included. 55.0% of obstetric nurses (287) had experienced workplace violence in the past 12 months, including verbal assault (40.4%), physical assault (34.1%), and sexual assault (31.0%). The overall level of obstetric nurses’ workplace violence prevention knowledge-attitude-practice and climate perception of workplace violence was low. …”
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Risk and protective factors for self-harm thoughts and behaviours in transgender and gender diverse people: A systematic review by K. Bird, J. Arcelus, L. Matsagoura, B.A. O'Shea, E. Townsend

“…These are younger age, being assigned female at birth, illicit drug and alcohol use, sexual and physical assault, gender minority stressors (especially discrimination and victimisation), and depression or depressive symptomology. …”
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Assessing Risk Factors for Victims of Violence in a Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program by Gaylene Armstrong, Taylor Gonzales, Michael R. Visenio, Ashley A. Farrens, Hannah Nelson, Charity H. Evans, Jennifer Burt, Zachary M. Bauman, Mark Foxall, Ashley A. Raposo-Hadley

“…Materials and Methods: Victims of violent injury by modality of firearm, stabbing, and physical assault who were admitted to a level 1 trauma center at a single institution were voluntarily enrolled in a hospital-based violence intervention program (HVIP) between September 2020 and June 2022. …”
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Prevalence and predictors of workplace violence against emergency physicians in China: a cross-sectional study by Shijiao Yan, Jing Feng, Yong Gan, Rixing Wang, Xingyue Song, Zhiqian Luo, Xiaotong Han, Chuanzhu Lv

“…Verbal aggression (87.25%) was the most common form of violence, followed by threat (71.09%), physical assault (48.24%), verbal sexual harassment (38.13%), and sexual assault (19.37%). …”
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Association of schizophrenia spectrum disorders and violence perpetration in adults and adolescents from 15 countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Whiting, D, Gulati, G, Geddes, JR, Fazel, S

“…</p> <p><strong>Main Outcomes and Measures</strong> The main outcome was violence to others obtained either through official records, self-report and/or collateral-report, or medical file review and included any physical assault, robbery, sexual offenses, illegal threats or intimidation, and arson.…”

Industrial Relations in the Plantation Sector: A Study on Dismissal Cases in the Plantations from 1974 to 1994 by Rohany, Habibah

“…The Correlation Analysis showed that when a worker is dismissed for insubordination, he is also unfairly accused of verbal abuse or physical assault, a tactic to substantiate further dismissal of the worker. …”
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Prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder and associated factors among displaced people in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Fantahun Andualem, Mamaru Melkam, Girmaw Medfu Takelle, Girum Nakie, Techilo Tinsae, Setegn Fentahun, Gidey Rtbey, Tesfaye Derbie Begashaw, Jemal Seid, Lidiya Fasil Tegegn, Getachew Muluye Gedef, Desalegn Anmut Bitew, Tilahun Nega Godana

“…The displaced persons are vulnerable to PTSD; however, being women, individuals with lower socio-economic status and intense exposure to physical assault are more vulnerable. The reviews stated that the pooled prevalence of PTSD among refugees in high-income countries was higher than the general population. …”
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Modeling the Causes of Abnormal Organizational Behaviors by Mobin Sadeghi, Alireza Mooghali, Mohamadali Sarlak, Mohammadjavad آozoori

“…These behaviors include a range of individual, group and organizational traumatic behaviors, such as avoidance, inappropriate performance, physical assault, verbal hostility, sabotage, theft and etc. …”
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Role of Computed Tomography (CT) in diagnosis of urgent head trauma in adult by Adil Ismail, Eenam Azez

“…Fall injury is the main cause of head trauma followed by road traffic accidents (RTA) and physical assault. Every victim with altered level of consciousness must be evaluated for brain injury. …”
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Violence Against Healthcare Workers by Regina Hoffman

“…One study in Michigan showed the rate of injury among healthcare workers was up to three times higher than what was reported by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.3 Another study from two large health systems in North Carolina and Texas showed 50.4% of respondents experienced type 2 violence—physical assault, physical threat, and verbal abuse—during their careers, and 39% of respondents experienced the same in the previous 12 months. …”
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Youth violence intervention programme for vulnerable young people attending emergency departments in London: a rapid evaluation by Appleby John, Georghiou Theo, Ledger Jean, Rolewicz Lucina, Sherlaw-Johnson Chris, Tomini Sonila M, Frerich Jason M, Ng Pei Li

“…Reasons for referral were by no means limited to young people experiencing physical assault, but also included substance misuse, sexual assault, suicidal ideation and mental health crises. …”
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Zero violence or zero seclusion. Which is more acceptable in our hospitals? by K. Tong, A. Gibbons, O. Byrne, T. Conlon, H. Kennedy, M. Davoren

“…Incidents were categorised into physical assaults and other violent incidents. Demographic measures and measures of violence risk (HCR-20), functioning (GAF), programme completion and recovery (DUNDRUM tool) were collated. …”
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