ArticleLa Medicina del lavoro2021
User-friendly system (a smartphone app) for reporting violent incidents in the Emergency Department: an Italian multicenter study.
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- How to Adequately Report Workplace Violence in Healthcare Setting: A Systematic Review With Hierarchical Cluster Analysis of Workplace Violence Reporting Forms.Journal of nursing management · 2026Pooled it
- Workplace violence against healthcare workers in Pakistan; call for action, if not now, then when? A systematic review.Global health action · 2023Pooled it
- Effectiveness of the interventions against workplace violence suffered by health and support professionals: A meta-analysis.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2022Pooled it
- Intervention and Strategies to Prevent Workplace Violence From Patients and Visitors Against Nurses: An Integrative Review.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Review
- Workplace violence against healthcare workers: a scoping review of reporting practices, barriers to reporting and institutional responses (2020-2025).BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Cultural Dimensions of Workplace Violence in Healthcare: A Narrative Review.Journal of nursing management · 2025Review
- Assessing Workplace Violence: Methodological Considerations.La Medicina del lavoro · 2024Article
- Workplace violence and its associated factors among nurses working in public hospitals of eastern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study.BMC nursing · 2022Article
- Predictors of events of violence or aggression against nurses in the workplace: A scoping review.Journal of nursing management · 2022Article
- "You Need to Get Over the Difficulties and Stand Up Again"-A Qualitative Inquiry into Young Nurses' Coping with Lateral Violence from the Feminist Perspective.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Judicial judgment and media sensation of violence against medical staff in China: A fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA).PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundNurses, particularly emergency nurses, are among the health workers most exposed to workplace violence. Although reporting systems are increasingly used, under-reporting remains high. Recent studies suggest that the use of easy registration systems could facilitate violence reporting.
objectivesTo verify if a friendly reporting system based on a Mobile-app can facilitate the reporting of violent episodes and reduce under-reporting.
methodsTwenty emergency departments of five North and Central Italian regions participated in an interventional, multicentric, pre-post study to verify if a user-friendly reporting system based on a mobile app can facilitate the reporting of violent episodes and reduce under-reporting.
resultsThree hundred and eighty-four out of 754 potentially eligible nurses answered the short questionnaire at time T0, and 318 registered for the use of the app. One hundred and eighty-nine answered the questionnaire at time T1. The t-Test for Paired Samples, although with a low mean difference, shows a significant difference in the change in the frequency of the reporting of violent episodes. The correlational tests showed no significant differences in the subgroups divided by demographic and professional characteristics. The usability of the app was considered very high.
conclusionsThe simplification of the reporting system and the preliminary acquisition of data on the characteristics of the ED and each nurse, can save time and facilitate the reporting, but technology alone is not enough to solve the under-reporting.
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