Prevalence of Workplace Physical Violence against Health Care Professionals by Patients and Visitors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Li, Yi-Lu; Li, Ruiqi; Qiu, Dan; Xiao, Shuiyuan

doi:10.3390/ijerph17010299

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“…According to global review on WPV against healthcare workers, the one year pooled rate reportedly varied across regions as follows Europe (26.38%), America (23.61%), Africa (20.71%), Eastern Mediterranean (17.09%), western pacific (14.53%) and South Asia (5.6%). The above differences were attributed to under reporting and continents’ specific peculiarities ( Li et al., 2020 ). From the above, it would be just say that WPV is a global epidemic that has left no continent untouched hence requires continental policy adjustment to address.…”

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Work place violence (WPV) against healthcare workers in Africa: A systematic review

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Oko

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Background WPV amongst healthcare workers has been reported as a public health challenge across the countries of the world, with more in the developing countries where condition of care and service is very poor. Objectives We aimed to systematically produce empirical evidence on the WPV against health care workers in Africa through the review of relevant literature. Method We sourced for evidence through the following databases: PubMed, Science direct and Scopus from 30 th November to 31 st December 2019 as well as the reference list of the studies included. A total of 22 peer reviewed articles were included in the review (8065 respondents). Quality appraisal of the included studies was assessed using critical appraisal tools for cross-sectional studies. Result Across the studies, diverse but high prevalence of WPV ranging from 9% to 100% was reported with the highest in South Africa (54%–100%) and Egypt (59.7%–86.1%). The common types were verbal, physical, sexual harassment and psychological violence. The correlates of WPV reported were gender, age, shift duty, emergency unit, psychiatric unit, nursing, marital status and others. Various impacts were reported including psychological impacts and desire to quit nursing. Patients and their relatives, the coworkers and supervisors were the mostly reported perpetrators of violence. Doctors were mostly implicated in the sexual violence against nurses. Policy on violence and management strategies were non-existent across the studies. Conclusion High prevalence of WPV against healthcare workers exists in Africa but there is still paucity of research on the subject matter. However, urgent measures like policy formulation and others must be taken to address the WPV as to avert the impact on the healthcare system.

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Work place violence (WPV) against healthcare workers in Africa: A systematic review

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“…The deliberations presented allow us to state that, regardless of the country, workplace physical mobbing against healthcare professionals is a widely observed phenomenon. However, Li et al [44] also mentioned another problem that exists in the sector (i.e., violence perpetrated by patients and visitors). Their research showed that this has also been a persistent problem worldwide.…”

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Workplace Mobbing in Polish and Lithuanian Organisations with Regard to Corporate Social Responsibility

Vveinhardt

Sroka

2020

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The ‘mobbing’ phenomenon is regarded as the actions or behaviour referring to an employee or directed against an employee, comprising persistent and drawn-out harassment or intimidation of that employee. This phenomenon causes substantial negative workplace consequences, but, above all, one should stress the consequences for the victims, which are devastating. This has been observed in a variety of organisations, regardless of the sector and country. Given these facts, the purpose of this study was to identify the prevalence of workplace mobbing in Polish and Lithuanian organisations with regard to corporate social responsibility (CSR). The research sample included a group of 823 entities operating in both countries in both the private and public sectors (410 from Lithuania and 413 from Poland). A closed-type questionnaire was used in the survey. Several research methods including factor analysis, Cronbach’s alpha, Spearman–Brown, factor loading, and total item correlation were used in our study. The results achieved showed that there were both similarities as well as differences between the analysed organisations. More specifically, our research revealed that: (1) Employee attitude to CSR depends on the company’s sector of activity and the country; (2) In Poland, workplace mobbing is more prevalent in the public sector than in the private, whilst in Lithuania there were no substantial differences; (3) Organisations that implemented the CSR concept showed less imposed mobbing prevalence; and (4) Employees who faced mobbing in the workplace had worse relationships with clients and users of the company’s services/products.

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“…Violence against HCWs has been reported in many places including Europe [9], Asia [10], the United States [11], Africa, and the Middle East [12], with a prevalence range of approximately 19-87% [13][14][15][16][17]. HCWs worldwide have been experiencing violence in various forms including verbal, physical, cultural, or sexual, that possess a risk to them [18,19].…”

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Burnout syndrome among health care workers is associated with violence against them. What needs to be done?

Awooda¹

2020

Sudan JMS

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Background: During SARS-CoV2 pandemic, patients are becoming more aggressive against health care workers when seeking their demands. Violence against Health care workers is of multifactor, and a one that strongly has associated is their burnout syndrome. Objectives: The aim of this study was to draw a conclusion from the previous literatures about the association of violence against HCWs and their burnout syndrome. Also to find out other associated factors and solutions for this phenomenon. Results: HCWs are subjected to stressful situations and high pressure; of highly infectious diseases (SARS-CoV2), shortage of PPE, working for more than 24 hours’ duty, without payment or reward, difficulties in the workplace and a poor hospital administration; all’s can lead to burnout syndrome. On the other hand, patient’s demand for the high expectations of their needs and attendants' (co-patients) fearfulness, anxiousness about their patient fate. Also, patient or co-patients believes on a doctor to be the only savior, so any unexpected behavior or un sympathy from the burned-out HCWs can result in aggressiveness and violence. Conclusion: The high prevalence of burnout syndrome among HCWs has become a global issue. A real attempt should be made focusing on the radical solution of the problem of burnout syndrome, rather than to enact laws to punish the aggressors against HCWs.

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Prevalence of Workplace Physical Violence against Health Care Professionals by Patients and Visitors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Cited by 106 publications

References 90 publications

Work place violence (WPV) against healthcare workers in Africa: A systematic review

Work place violence (WPV) against healthcare workers in Africa: A systematic review

Workplace Mobbing in Polish and Lithuanian Organisations with Regard to Corporate Social Responsibility

Burnout syndrome among health care workers is associated with violence against them. What needs to be done?

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