ReviewHeliyon2020
Work place violence (WPV) against healthcare workers in Africa: A systematic review.
Review in Heliyon, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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52 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 84 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Workplace violence against female healthcare workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2024Pooled it
- Workplace violence against healthcare workers in Pakistan; call for action, if not now, then when? A systematic review.Global health action · 2023Pooled it
- Contemporary evidence of workplace violence against the primary healthcare workforce worldwide: a systematic review.Human resources for health · 2023Pooled it
- Drivers of health workers' migration, intention to migrate and non-migration from low/middle-income countries, 1970-2022: a systematic review.BMJ global health · 2023Pooled it
- Workplace violence and associated factors among healthcare professionals in public hospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Violence against health care workers in a post-conflict context: an exploratory qualitative study in the province of South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.Conflict and health · 2026Article
- Review
- Prevalence and physicians' perception of workplace violence preventive measures in two Egyptian public hospitals.The Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association · 2026Article
- Inadequacy of interventions to eliminate or reduce violence against healthcare professionals by patients and/or their relatives.World journal of psychiatry · 2026Review
- Work pressure, communication skills, empathy, professional identity, and workplace violence in psychiatric nurses: a structural equation model analysis.BMC nursing · 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
- Disparities in Working Conditions Among Maternal and Neonatal Health Personnel in a Crisis Context: The Case of the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo.International journal of women's health · 2026Article
- Prevalence and determinants of workplace violence among nurses in public tertiary hospitals in Enugu state, Nigeria.PloS one · 2026Article
- Surgical nurses' perceptions of experienced sexual harassment behaviors.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Workplace violence against nurses in the Emergency Department in a Ghanaian Tertiary Hospital.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2025Article
- A qualitative study of academic bullying among junior doctors in Sierra Leone.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Proposing conceptual frameworks for prevention and management of workplace violence against healthcare workers in a Nigerian State.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Workplace violence against nurse: a systematic review and meta-analysis in Ethiopia.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Violence against healthcare workers in Kenya: a cross-sectional sub-analysis of the global vishwas study.BMC public health · 2025Article
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundWPV amongst healthcare workers has been reported as a public health challenge across the countries of the world, with more in the developing countries where condition of care and service is very poor.
objectivesWe aimed to systematically produce empirical evidence on the WPV against health care workers in Africa through the review of relevant literature.
methodWe sourced for evidence through the following databases: PubMed, Science direct and Scopus from 30
resultAcross the studies, diverse but high prevalence of WPV ranging from 9% to 100% was reported with the highest in South Africa (54%-100%) and Egypt (59.7%-86.1%). The common types were verbal, physical, sexual harassment and psychological violence. The correlates of WPV reported were gender, age, shift duty, emergency unit, psychiatric unit, nursing, marital status and others. Various impacts were reported including psychological impacts and desire to quit nursing. Patients and their relatives, the coworkers and supervisors were the mostly reported perpetrators of violence. Doctors were mostly implicated in the sexual violence against nurses. Policy on violence and management strategies were non-existent across the studies.
conclusionHigh prevalence of WPV against healthcare workers exists in Africa but there is still paucity of research on the subject matter. However, urgent measures like policy formulation and others must be taken to address the WPV as to avert the impact on the healthcare system.
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