ReviewCurrent psychiatry reports2022
Violence Against Physicians in the Workplace: Trends, Causes, Consequences, and Strategies for Intervention.
Review in Current psychiatry reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05938101 (Pain Clinic Staff Harassment Caused by Patients Pre/Post COVID Pandemic), which is not on this map. Cited by 59 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Pain Clinic Staff Harassment Caused by Patients Pre/Post COVID Pandemic
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59 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Prevalence, associated factors, and outcomes of workplace violence against doctors in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Workplace violence experiences of intensive care unit healthcare providers: a qualitative systematic review and meta--synthesis.BMC health services research · 2025Pooled it
- Associations of workplace violence with depression and anxiety among health-care workers: the mediating role of perceived work stress.Global health action · 2026Article
- Assessing the experiences of violence among healthcare workers in Calgary emergency departments.CJEM · 2026Article
- "We could do more": exploring violance prevention measures in German outpatient primary care - a qualitative study.BMC primary care · 2026Article
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- Influencing surgical career choice among final-year medical students: a multi-center cross-sectional study in Türkiye.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Design, Development, and Validation of a Chatbot to Support Health Care Professionals Experiencing Workplace Aggression: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Homicide and Suicide in Select Healthcare Industries and Occupations in the United States, National Violent Death Reporting System, 2017 to 2022.Workplace health & safety · 2026Article
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- Inadequacy of interventions to eliminate or reduce violence against healthcare professionals by patients and/or their relatives.World journal of psychiatry · 2026Review
- Assessing workplace violence in healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study in Italy.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Perceptions of mental health services among informal caregivers in Sardinia, Italy, during the post-pandemic crisis of the national health system: a comparative study between 2024 and 2025.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Workplace violence in trauma centers is a serious problem: an AAST Disaster Committee survey on assaults on trauma teams.Trauma surgery & acute care open · 2026Article
- Between reluctance and resistance: LGBTQ+ healthcare professionals and their experiences in the workplace.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The experiences of midwives with violence from patients, their relatives and friends: A study in perinatal center in Lithuania.European journal of midwifery · 2026Article
- The Moderating Role of Confucian Coping in the Job Demands-Resources Model in Chinese Tertiary Hospitals.Journal of nursing management · 2026Article
- Adapting to the digital age in psychiatry: evaluating change in emergency department nurses and psychiatrists' views toward telepsychiatry for involuntary hospitalization.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Article
- Prevalence and types of violence against emergency department workers in Kuwait: a cross-sectional study.BMC emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Occurrence and associated factors of self-reported medical errors among Chinese physicians and nurses: a cross-sectional survey.Annals of medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
purposeViolence against healthcare professionals has become an emergency in many countries. Literature in this area has mainly focused on nurses while there are less studies on physicians, whose alterations in mental health and burnout have been linked to higher rates of medical errors and poorer quality of care. We summarized peer-reviewed literature and examined the epidemiology, main causes, consequences, and areas of intervention associated with workplace violence perpetrated against physicians. RECENT
findingsWe performed a review utilizing several databases, by including the most relevant studies in full journal articles investigating the problem. Workplace violence against doctors is a widespread phenomenon, present all over the world and related to a number of variables, including individual, socio-cultural, and contextual variables. During the COVID-19 pandemic, incidence of violence has increased. Data also show the possible consequences in physicians' deterioration of quality of life, burnout, and traumatic stress which are linked to physical and mental health problems, which, in a domino effect, fall on patients' quality of care. Violence against doctors is an urgent global problem with consequences on an individual and societal level. This review highlights the need to undertake initiatives aimed at enhancing understanding, prevention, and management of workplace violence in healthcare settings.
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