Observational studyLa Medicina del lavoro2020
Violence on doctors. An observational study in Northern Italy.
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- Adherence to Mediterranean Diet and Risk of Pancreatic Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Sudden unexpected physicians' death during performing professional duties: increasing social and public health problem.International journal of occupational medicine and environmental health · 2026Review
- Validation of the Italian Version of the Perception of Aggression Scale (POAS): A Cross-Sectional Study.La Medicina del lavoro · 2026Article
- Inadequacy of interventions to eliminate or reduce violence against healthcare professionals by patients and/or their relatives.World journal of psychiatry · 2026Review
- Risk Assessment of Workplace Violence Against Nurses: How Data Collection Methods Influence Results-A Swedish and Italian Cross-Sectional Study.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Article
- Violence Against Healers in Italy: A Medico-Legal Inquiry into Patient Aggression.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Perpetrators of gender-based workplace violence amongst nurses and physicians-A scoping review of the literature.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- A gender-based review of workplace violence amongst the global health workforce-A scoping review of the literature.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Systematic Violence Monitoring to Reduce Underreporting and to Better Inform Workplace Violence Prevention Among Health Care Workers: Before-and-After Prospective Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2023Article
- Hospital-Based Healthcare Workers Victims of Workplace Violence in Italy: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- User-friendly system (a smartphone app) for reporting violent incidents in the Emergency Department: an Italian multicenter study.La Medicina del lavoro · 2021Article
- Consequences of COVID19-pandemic lockdown on Italian occupational physicians' psychosocial health.PloS one · 2021Article
- High strain and low social support at work as risk factors for being the target of third-party workplace violence among healthcare sector workers.La Medicina del lavoro · 2020Article
- Workplace Violence and Its Effects on Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress among Mental Healthcare Nurses in Japan.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Workplace violence against healthcare workers: an observational study in Castilla y León (Spain).La Medicina del lavoro · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundViolence in the workplace is now universally recognized as a significant global public health issue and is one of the most serious issues affecting the healthcare sector.
objectivesTo assess the prevalence of workplace violence.
methodsWe performed a multicenter cross-sectional study using an anonymous questionnaire submitted to doctors from Northern Italy. The survey investigates socio-demographic information, the number of years of work in the health sector and the physical and verbal aggressions that occurred in the workplace in the last 12 months.
resultsThe sample consists of 4545 healthcare workers, of whom 2603 (57.27%) are females. The mean age of the sample is 49.79 years (SD ± 12.63). The risk of being victim of physical aggression at work in the last 12 months is significantly associated with the following independent variables: male gender (aOR 2.09, 95% CI 1.51-2.88), work in the public sector (aOR 2.57, 95% CI 1.72-3.85), being victim of verbal aggression at work in the last 12 months (aOR 22.52, 95% CI 10.97-46.20), work in the operational units of the Medical area (aOR 2.36, 95% CI 1.33-4.21) and the Territorial area (aOR 1.97, 95% CI 1.04-3.74). DISCUSSION: The prevalence of violent behaviour is difficult to assess, because violent incidents are underreported or unreported. The results of the study suggest that increased awareness is necessary to develop effective control strategies at individual, hospital and national levels.
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