Survey on Workplace Violence among Medical Staffs in a Third Grade Class - A Hospital in Xi'an City
10.12026/j.issn.1001-8565.2018.01.12
- VernacularTitle:西安市某三甲医院医务人员遭受工作场所暴力调查研究
- Author:
Deling KONG
1
;
Mingxu WANG
;
Shuzhen KONG
;
Xiwen YANG
;
Ziying WANG
;
Jingwen LYU
Author Information
1. 西安交通大学第二附属医院护理部
- Keywords:
Medical Staff;
Workplace Violence;
Medical Institution
- From:
Chinese Medical Ethics
2018;31(1):50-54,59
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective:To explore the incidence and epidemiological features of workplace violence among medi-cal staffs in a Third - grade Class - A hospital in Xi'an,and to provide scientific basis for the hospital and relevant health management departments to make workplace violence prevention and control measures. Methods: Using Hospital Workplace Violence Questionnaire, a survey was conducted among medical staffs in a Third - grade Class - A hospital in Xi'an to investigate the occurrence of workplace violence over the past one year. Results:A-mong the 1174 respondents,655 suffered workplace violence in the past one year,with a rate of 55. 79％ ;the vio-lence occurred mainly in day shift and wards;the perpetrators were mainly middle - aged,male and the families of patients;69. 42％ of the respondents thought the workplace violence were unavoidable and 87. 31％ of the respond-ents considered that the top measures that can be taken to prevent the workplace violence was "the correct media o-rientation";the main coping methods of medical staffs were patience explanation and forbearance,and after suffering workplace violence,the medical staffs would feel grievances,anger,declining enthusiasm for work and even didn't want to do medical care. The main measures that the hospital had taken to prevent workplace violence mainly in-cluded the security patrol,installing cameras in wards and keeping light bright at night in working area. Conclu-sions:Workplace violence is common among medical staffs. To prevent and control hospital workplace violence,it is recommended that:① Hospital employ more security personals and should particularly strengthen security work in high - risk period,high - risk departments;②it should strengthen the training of medical staff on the prevention and control of workplace violence and strengthen popularization of the relevant legal knowledge to the client;③it should strengthen the communication and cooperation with media and promote the correct media orientation;④it should smooth the patient feedback channels and timely correct the existing problems.
