ArticleAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2018
Violence against doctors, a serious concern for healthcare organizations to ponder about.
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- Prevalence of Type II and Type III Workplace Violence against Physicians: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.The international journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2019Pooled it
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- Violence Against Physicians in the Workplace: Trends, Causes, Consequences, and Strategies for Intervention.Current psychiatry reports · 2022Review
- Aggression towards clinicians within Opiate Substitution Treatment (OST) services: A survey of service providers.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2022Article
- Workplace Violence Against Physicians Treating COVID-19 Patients in Peru: A Cross-Sectional Study.Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety · 2021Article
- Providers' perspectives on the performance of primary healthcare centres in India: The missing link.The International journal of health planning and management · 2021Article
- Pattern of workplace violence against doctors practising modern medicine and the subsequent impact on patient care, in India.PloS one · 2020Article
- Addressing Risks of Violence against Healthcare Staff in Emergency Departments: The Effects of Job Satisfaction and Attachment Style.BioMed research international · 2019Article
- Why Violence Against Doctors? What to Do?Indian journal of occupational and environmental medicineArticle
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Abstract
backgroundAggression and Violence against primary care physicians is reportedly common in Pakistan but there is no any documented study to-date on this burning issue.
methodsA formed written questionnaire was distributed among 769 primary care physicians aged 31 ± 7.68 years. Apart from the demographic data, the questionnaire included questions regarding the level of safety that primary care physicians felt during their work setups and on-call duties, along with the experience of aggression against them by the perpetrators & the support provided by the hospital management in such cases.
resultResponse rate was 68% i.e. 524 physicians agreed to participate in the study. It was found that majority (85%) of the physicians has faced mild events, 62% have faced moderate events and roughly 38% were subjected to severe violence. Some physicians revealed more than one form of aggression being faced by them in 12 months preceding months which makes the collective percentage greater than 100%. Verbal abuse is the most frequent type of mistreatment faced by the doctors from the patients or their attendants.
conclusionA considerable number of physicians participated have faced mild violence in which verbal abuse was commonest; followed by moderate and severe events.
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