Workplace Violence: A Study of Turkish Workers

Aytaç, Serpil; Bozkurt, Veysel; Bayram, Nuran; Yıldız, Selver; Aytac, Mustafa; Akinci, Fusun Sokullu; Bilgel, Nazan

doi:10.1080/10803548.2011.11076902

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“…The findings of bullying research conducted in many parts of the world in recent years clearly demonstrate the serious dimensions of workplace bullying (Aytac et al, 2011;Tinaz, 2012;Tonini et al, 2011aTonini et al, , 2011b and how violence in the health care sector is more common than in other workplaces (Annagür, 2010). It has been reported that health care professionals, and nurses in particular, are more commonly bullied than those in other professions (Gallant-Roman, 2008).…”

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Workplace Bullying in Nursing

Ovayolu¹,

Ovayolu²,

Karadağ³

2014

Workplace Health Saf

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This research was designed to determine whether nurses are bullied by other staff members and the effects of such behaviors on the nurse victims. This study reports on nurses' interpersonal workplace relationships in a culturally unique environment. The study was conducted with 260 nurses working in three public hospitals. Data were collected using a questionnaire. The majority of nurses were female with bachelor's degrees and reported being assigned duties outside their usual responsibilities, held responsible for coworkers' mistakes, and criticized for job performance although they thought they had done their work properly. Most of the nurses who were bullied experienced health and sleep problems,did not want to go to work, and had communication problems with other staff members. Nearly all of the study nurses received psychological support to solve their problems and believed that the best way to prevent bullying was education.

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Workplace Bullying in Nursing

Ovayolu¹,

Ovayolu²,

Karadağ³

2014

Workplace Health Saf

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“…Many other cross-sectional studies have focused on the consequences of violence on HCWs. Assaults are associated with high job strain [34], burnout [35], anxiety [36], depression [37, 38], post-traumatic stress disorder [39, 40], and reduced productivity [41]. WV is associated with high psychological distress, low superior and coworker support, and low interactional justice [42].…”

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The Exploding Spark: Workplace Violence in an Infectious Disease Hospital—A Longitudinal Study

Magnavita

2013

BioMed Research International

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Objectives. Workplace violence (WV) is an important occupational hazard for healthcare workers (HCWs). Methods. A longitudinal study was carried out on HCWs from an infectious disease hospital. Work-related stress, anxiety, and depression were measured at baseline in 2003, and they were reassessed in 2005, along with the assaults that occurred in the previous year. Results. One-year prevalences of 6.2% and 13.9% were reported for physical and verbal aggressions, respectively. Perpetrators were mainly patients. The professional groups most frequently attacked were physicians, followed by nurses. Workers with job strain at baseline had a significant risk of being subject to aggression (OR 7.7; CI 95%, 3.3–17.9) in the following year. The relationship between job strain and subsequent WV remained significant even after correction for anxiety, depression, and other confounders. Conversely, experiencing WV was associated with a high risk of job strain and effort-reward imbalance in the following year. The final levels of anxiety and depression were predicted using regression models that included physical aggression among predictive variables. Conclusions. WV is the spark that sets off a problematic work situation. Effective prevention of WV can only be achieved within the framework of an overall improvement in the quality of work.

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“…Research on other professionals has come to similar conclusions, indicating that this kind of bullying is more common in male managerial roles (2). In Turkey, a questionnaire dispensed to a large working population found that, in many and varied employment areas, men are at increased risk of physical aggression, while women are more exposed to verbal, psychological and sexual abuse (16). According to our data, Bjorkqvist et al reported that, among mobbing victims (within the university), about 2/3 are women (17).…”

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Mobbing: case record, gender differences, medico-legal issues

Stefano¹

2014

PER

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SummaryIntroduction: the "mobbing syndrome", due to prolonged harassment at work, requires accurate diagnostic evaluation, both for clinical and medicolegal purposes. Objectives: to evaluate with a multidisciplinary approach (occupational physician, psychologist, psychiatrist) the frequency and gender differences of psychiatric disorders due to mobbing in clinical practice. Results: a work-related psychiatric disorder was diagnosed in 152 subjects (32% of the whole case series): 37 cases (8%) were probably due to mobbing. The other patients presented work-unrelated psychiatric conditions (28% of cases) or no psychiatric disorders. Among workers with disorders due to mobbing or other forms of work-related stress, the majority (62%) were women, with medium-high education, mostly between 34 and 45 years. The occupations involved were various, with predominance of office work. Discussion: using a rigorous diagnostic procedure, a psychopathological disorder due to mobbing is diagnosed in a limited number of patients, mostly women. Thus, caution should be adopted in labeling as "mobbing syndrome" clinical conditions that can show similar manifestations. Such conditions can easily generate conflict with employers, based on unfounded allegations, if superficially assessed. The study calls for adequate preventative measures, primarily aimed at protecting women's work. KEY WORDS: psychosocial factors, bullying, women (working), adjustment disorder.

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Workplace Violence: A Study of Turkish Workers

Cited by 43 publications

References 19 publications

Workplace Bullying in Nursing

Workplace Bullying in Nursing

The Exploding Spark: Workplace Violence in an Infectious Disease Hospital—A Longitudinal Study

Mobbing: case record, gender differences, medico-legal issues

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