Violence experienced by Turkish nursing students in clinical settings: Their emotions and behaviors

Turkish nursing students’ perceptions and experiences of bullying behavior in nursing education

“…The result of present study supports the findings of previous Turkish study of Celebioglu et al [12] which found that 50.3% of the students were subjected to violence in the clinical settings. Verbal violence (91.6%) was the most frequently encountered type of abuse, followed by physical violence (4.2%), and sexual abuse (4.2%).…”

“…In previous Turkish studies, the abusive behaviors considered were mainly those committed by patients and their relatives, and classmates [12,14] . In present study, nursing students rarely reported bullying and harassment on the part of patients and their relatives and classmates.…”

“…National and international literature reveal that the prevalence of bullying and harassment in the health sector workplace is a well-known problem and the risk of being subjected to psychological violence among nurses is three times higher than the ones in other professional groups in the service sector [11,12] . Also it is quoted that nursing students have the highest risk of experiencing aggression because of inexperience, frequent ward changes and the challenge of meeting new environments [5] .…”

Nursing students' experiences of violence: A Questionnaire Survey

“…[14,[27][28][29] In addition, the gap observed between verbal aggression and other categories of violence in the current study is similar to previous results. For example, Celebioglu et al [29] recently reported that verbal aggression rates were 91.6% according to student nurses in Turkey; however, physical-sexual harrassment rates were approximately 8% in this same population. Similarly, Hinchberger [9] found that verbal aggression was 69% and physical violence was only 10% among student nurses in the USA.…”

“…While patients and their relatives have been the primary perpetrators in studies investigating verbal aggression and physical violence, [14,18,29,34] healthcare workers are reported as perpetrators in studies evaluating psychological and sexual violence. [9,29,35] McKenna et al [36] noted that patients were the primary perpetrators of verbal and verbal-sexual aggression; however, Hinchberger [9] reported that clinical staff was the most assailant group to students, as they were associated with approximately 50% of violence. The current results show that in addition to patient and relative aggression, nurses were perpetrators of verbal aggression and physical violence, and doctors were perpetrators of sexual violence.…”