ArticleBMC health services research2025
Workplace mistreatment of Swedish health care professionals: prevalence and perpetrators across profession, sex, and birth country.
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- Workplace mistreatment and problem drinking among physicians in Sweden: a longitudinal study.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2026Article
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- Allied health professionals' experiences of co-worker unprofessional behaviour and their reported speaking-up skills: A secondary analysis of a cross-sectional survey.Future healthcare journal · 2025Article
- Co-designing an International Nursing Course on Workplace Violence in Ethiopia, Sweden, and Tanzania: A Collective Autoethnography.Global qualitative nursing researchArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThis study explores the prevalence and co-occurrence of workplace mistreatment of nurses and physicians and their perpetrators. We explore the distribution of incivility and identity-based harassment (ethnicity-, gender-based, and/or sexual harassment), combined with sex and birth country in these two professional groups.
methodsThis cross-sectional study draws on survey data, including an analytical sample of 141,237 Swedish nurses and physicians in 2022.
resultsIncivility was the most prevalent mistreatment type, ranging from 28.2% among male physicians to 59.5% among nurses born outside Europe. Identity-based harassment ranged from 18.1% among male physicians to 57.8% among nurses born outside Europe. Incivility stemmed most commonly from internal perpetrators (co-workers), and harassment was more commonly experienced by patients or their relatives.
conclusionsThe mistreatment of healthcare professionals was widespread. Different types of mistreatment often co-occur, but prevalence varies substantially. The protective effect of professional status was dependent on social structures.
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