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Prevalence of lateral violence in nurse workplace: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Tracking Workplace Violence over 20 Years.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Poor Work Ability Is Associated with Workplace Violence in Nurses: A Two-Wave Panel Data Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Nurses' Perspectives on Risk Factors and Strategies to Control Workplace Violence: A National Survey in Vietnam.Iranian journal of public health · 2024Article
- Assessing Workplace Violence: Methodological Considerations.La Medicina del lavoro · 2024Article
- Prevalence and correlates of workplace violence against medical assistants in Germany: a cross-sectional study.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Negative Acts as Risk Factor for Work-Related Violence and Threats from Clients towards Employees: A Follow-Up Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Nursing Leaders' Knowledge and Awareness of Bullying and Lateral Violence: A Qualitative Study.SAGE open nursingArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThe prevalence of inter-nurse lateral violence (LV) reported in current studies is inconsistent, ranging from 7% to 83%. The purpose of this study is to quantify the prevalence of LV in nurses' workplaces.
methodsSystematic review and meta-analysis. Cochrane, PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, CNKI and Wanfang databases were searched for relevant studies (up to 27 January 2021). We included cross-sectional, case-control or cohort studies in which both abusers and victims were nurses. Studies that did not provide specific data on abusers were excluded. Stata V.16.0 was used for statistical analysis. Fixed-effect or random-effect model was adopted according to heterogeneity, which was evaluated by Cochran's Q and
resultsA total of 14 studies with 6124 nurses were included. Further, 13 articles with 5745 nurses were included in the meta-analysis, and the pooled prevalence of LV among nurses was 33.08% (95% CI: 23.41% to 42.75%, p<0.05; DISCUSSION: The prevalence of inter-nurse LV is high in nurse workplace. It is suggested that scholars pay more attention to the cultural differences of inter-nurse LV between regions in the future. This study has the following limitations: there is a lack of studies on LV prevalence in many countries; lack of standard assessment tools; no grey literature was searched.
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