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Workplace violence against doctors: Characteristics, risk factors, and mitigation strategies.
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89 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Violence against healthcare professionals in intensive care units: a systematic review and meta-analysis of frequency, risk factors, interventions, and preventive measures.Critical care (London, England) · 2024Pooled it
- A combined behavioural economics- and simulation-based medical education to promote effectiveness among medical residents in coping with workplace violence in Northern China: a quasi-experimental study.BMC public health · 2022Trial
- Assessment of Well-Being Among Healthcare Workers and Identification of Possible Improvement Measures Using the NIOSH Well-Being Questionnaire.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2026Article
- Retrospective Study of Perpetrators of Workplace Violence in a Large Urban Emergency Department in the United States.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Understanding disruption in the social contract between the medical profession and society in India: a tale of mismatched expectations?Health policy and planning · 2026Article
- Assessing workplace violence in healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study in Italy.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Prevalence and influencing factors of workplace violence among psychiatric nurses in China: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The influence of simulated patient counsellingtraining sessions on intern communication skills: A questionnaire based cross sectional study.Bioinformation · 2026Article
- Machine Learning Models for Identifying Factors Associated With Workplace Violence Among Emergency Nurses: A Comparative Study.Emergency medicine international · 2026Article
- Ethicality forms a challenge in the implementation of structured violence risk screening: a qualitative study of an intervention in two Swedish emergency psychiatric units.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Association of perceived leadership effectiveness and mental health symptoms in health system staff and faculty: a cross-sectional survey study.BMJ leader · 2025Article
- Health Care Staff-Reported Workplace Violence in Patient Safety Event Reports.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Workplace Violence, Self-Perceived Resilience and Associations with Turnover Intention Among Emergency Department Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Postgraduate Medical Training in India: Inadequacies and Challenges Faced by Young Medical Graduates.Cureus · 2025Review
- Violence Against Healers in Italy: A Medico-Legal Inquiry into Patient Aggression.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Gender Disparities in Workplace Violence Among Italian Healthcare Workers: A Cross-Sectional Study.La Medicina del lavoro · 2025Observational
- Violence against Health Workers: A Global Challenge with Serious Health Consequences.Iranian journal of public health · 2025Article
- The impact of workplace violence on healthcare workers during and after the COVID-19 outbreak.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Impact of patient aggression and violence against physicians on the team and organisational levels in China: a qualitative study.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Bullying experience among Nigerian physiotherapists: Prevalence and impact on workplace performance.Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
Workplace violence is a major occupational issue concerning doctors that has a significant impact on their physical and psychological well-being. This ultimately affects the health care services of the country. Patient-led episodes of verbal violence are more prevalent in Asian countries, especially in the emergency department, psychiatric wards, and intensive care units, mostly faced by junior doctors and residents. Some common precursors of violence against doctors are patients and their attendants' dissatisfaction and low impulse control, poor administration, miscommunication, infrastructural issues especially differences in services between private and public hospitals, and negative media portrayal of doctors. The assessment of risk factors, development and implementation of workplace violence programs, and addressing underreporting of violent episodes have been suggested as some successful organizational mitigation strategies. Recommendations on the management of workplace violence include the development of participative, gender-based, culture-based, nondiscriminatory, and systematic strategies to deal with issues related to violence. This article aims to present a comprehensive review of workplace violence against doctors, discussing the prevalence, degree of violence, predictors, impact on physical and psychological health and intervention strategies to devise practical actions against workplace violence.
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