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Workplace violence against physicians in Turkey's emergency departments: a cross-sectional survey
Başak Bayram1, Murat Çetin2, Neşe Çolak Oray1
1Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey.
Objective:
We aimed to determine the prevalence of violence directed at emergency department (ED) physicians in Turkey and confirm the factors influencing such violence.
Design:
Cross-sectional survey study.
Setting:
Country of Turkey.
Participants:
Physicians currently practising in EDs in Turkey.
Main Outcome Measures:
The prevalence of violence directed at physicians and factors that may influence it, such as physicians' personal characteristics, ED characteristics and physicians' opinions regarding the causes of and suggested methods of preventing violence.
Results:
A total of 713 physicians participated. Of these, 78.1% reported being subjected to violence in the past year and 65.9% reported more than one such incident. Being subjected to violence was related to age (p=0.008), working in an ED with a high patient admission rate (p=0.018), current position (p<0.001), working outside regular work hours (p<0.001), working in a state hospital (p<0.001) and level of experience (p<0.001). Gender, type of patient typically seen, region and patient waiting period did not influence subjection to violence. The present safety precautions against violence do not appear to influence the prevalence of violence.
Conclusions:
Our results indicated that ED physicians' experience of violence is related to personal characteristics such as age and level of expertise, and hospital and ED characteristics such as high patient admission rates. Presently, no measures taken to reduce this violence have been proven effective.
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