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Identifying Predictors of Workplace Violence Against Healthcare Professionals: A Systematic Review.
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- Workplace violence against female healthcare workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2024Pooled it
- Workplace violence and psychosocial risks exposures: a multicenter cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Prevalence and Determinants of Workplace Violence Against Nurses in the Italian Home Care Settings: A Cross-Sectional Multicentre Study.Journal of clinical nursing · 2026Observational
- The rising tide of workplace violence in the healthcare sector: a global scoping review of burden, determinants, and prevention strategies (2021-2025).Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Experience of Communication with Hospitalized Pediatric and Adult Patients in Intensive Care Unit: Validation and Reliability Analysis of EC-ICU 24-Item Scale.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Article
- Mediator Effect of Work Overload Between Fear of Future Violence at Work and Turnover Intention in Nurses.International journal of nursing practice · 2026Article
- Nurses' experience of violence and post-traumatic stress disorder in Germany: a cross-sectional study.Journal of research in nursing : JRN · 2025Article
- Mediating role of future fear of violence between the direct violence and witnessed violence and psychological capital: a study of doctors and nurses.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Role of turnover, downsizing, overtime and night shifts on workplace violence against healthcare workers: a seven-year ecological study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Construct Validity and Test-Retest Reliability of Questionnaires to Assess Workplace Violence Risk Factors (QAWRF): A Tripartite Perspective of Worksite-Specific Determinants in Healthcare Settings.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2024Article
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Abstract
Understanding the predictors of workplace violence amongst healthcare professionals is important to develop and implement prevention and mitigation strategies. We conducted a systematic review to synthesize the recent evidence on predictors of workplace violence across healthcare settings. The review has been done as per the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Two electronic databases (PubMed and Google Scholar) were used to search peer-reviewed studies published for the year 2009-2020 to identify studies reporting predictors of workplace violence. The significant predictors were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as proportions in most of the studies and some studies used inferential statistics such as logistic regression analysis, Chi-square test, ANOVA and Student's t-test. A total of 46 studies were identified and overall evidence was graded using an adapted GRADE approach. Some of the moderate quality predictors associated with workplace violence were the patient with a history of mental health disease, psychiatric setting, professional's gender and work experience and evening shift workers. Being a nurse was the only high-quality predictor. Healthcare professionals and administration can identify the predictors relevant to their setting to mitigate episodes of violence against healthcare personnel.
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