Trial reportPloS one2021
Violence against physicians in Jordan: An analytical cross-sectional study.
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- Perspectives of physicians on risk factors for patient aggression and violence against physicians in Chinese hospitals: a Q-methodology study.Human resources for health · 2025Article
- Research Hotspots and Trends in Workplace Violence Among Healthcare Professionals: A Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis Based on Web of Science.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Review
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- The growing burden of workplace violence against healthcare workers: trends in prevalence, risk factors, consequences, and prevention - a narrative review.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Review
- Medicolegal analysis of physical violence toward physicians in Egypt.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Prevalence, consequences, and contributing factors beyond verbal and physical workplace violence against nurses in peripheral hospitals.Frontiers in 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
- Perpetrators of gender-based workplace violence amongst nurses and physicians-A scoping review of the literature.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Health service providers experience of psycho-emotional violence and associated factors among urban hospitals in Eastern Ethiopia.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Willingness of Healthcare Workers to Recommend or Receive a Third COVID-19 Vaccine Dose: A Cross-Sectional Study from Jordan.Infectious disease reports · 2023Article
- Workplace violence against healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sudan: A cross-sectional study.Public health challenges · 2022Article
- Violence Against Physicians in the Workplace: Trends, Causes, Consequences, and Strategies for Intervention.Current psychiatry reports · 2022Review
- Workplace Violence among Healthcare Providers during the COVID-19 Health Emergency: A Cross-Sectional Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundHigh numbers of violence incidents against physicians are reported annually in both developing and developed countries. In Jordan, studies conducted on healthcare workers involved small number of physicians and showed higher percentages of violence exposure when compared to other investigations from the Middle East. This is a large study aiming to comprehensively analyze the phenomenon in the physicians' community to optimize future strategies countering it.
methodsThe study has a cross sectional, questionnaire-based design. It targeted 969 doctors from different types of healthcare Jordanian institutions in Amman, between May to July, 2019. The questionnaire was designed to evaluate properties of reported abuse cases in terms of abusers, timing, and type of abuse, in addition to the consequences of this abuse.
resultsPrevalence of exposure to violence in the last year among doctors was 63.1% (611 doctors). 423 (67.2%) of male doctors had an experience of being abused during the last 12 months, compared to 188 (55.3%) of females (p< 0.001). Governmental centers showed the highest prevalence. Among 356 doctors working in governmental medical centers, 268 (75.3%) reported being abused (p< 0.001), and they were more abused verbally (63.5%) and physically (10.4%) compared to other medical sectors (p <0.001). The mean score of how worried doctors are regarding violence at their workplace from 1 to 5 was 3.1 ± 1.3, and only 129 (13.3%) believed that they are protected by law.
conclusionsThe study emphasized on the higher rate of violence against physicians in the governmental sector, in addition to the negative effect of abuse on their performance. Moreover, male physicians had higher incidence of workplace abuse. Therefore, strategies that ease and promote the real application of anti-violence policies should become our future target.
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