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October 10, 2024Pakistan Journal of Medical & Health Sciences

Guardians under Fire: Unveiling Violence on Emergency Healthcare Professionals: A Multicenter Questionnaire Based Cross Sectional Survey

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HNHUMA NASIRPMPedro Vitale MendesASAlam Sawwa

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Overview

Cross-sectional survey identifies verbal abuse as the most common violence in healthcare workers, suggesting better reporting practices are needed.

Key Points

  • Emergency healthcare professionals particularly encounter verbal abuse, impacting their work environment significantly, and highlighting a need for improved safety measures.
  • The survey showed 87.5% of respondents reported experiencing verbal abuse, with only 28.7% indicating they reported such incidents, pointing to a significant gap in reporting behavior.
  • Cross-sectional study conducted in various tertiary care hospitals assessed the prevalence of violence in emergency healthcare, emphasizing the risk factors associated with male gender and longer career experience.
  • With physical assault rates at 5.0% and bullying at 5.2%, these findings underline the critical issue of workplace violence, demanding urgent attention for healthcare safety protocols.

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NASIR et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68af7f467567bf4f94ff64bdhttps://doi.org/10.53350/pjmhs020241893
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