Analysing workplace violence towards health care staff in public hospitals using alternative ordered response models: The case of north-eastern Turkey.

Analysing workplace violence towards health care staff in public hospitals using alternative ordered response models: The case of north-eastern Turkey. Int J Occup Saf Ergon. 2017 Apr 24;:1-38 Authors: Çelik AK, Oktay E, Çebi K Abstract The main objective of this paper is to determine key factors that may have a significant effect on the verbal abuse, emotional abuse, and physical assault of health care workers in north-eastern Turkey. A self-administered survey was conducted to 450 health care workers in three well-established hospitals in Erzurum, Turkey. Due to the discrete and ordered nature of the dependent variable of the survey, the data were analysed using four distinctive ordered response models. Results revealed that several key variables were found to be a significant determinant of workplace violence such as the type of the health institution, occupational position, weekly working hours, weekly shift hours, the number of daily patient contacts, age group of the respondents, experience in the health sector, training against workplace violence, and the current policies of the hospitals and the Turkish Ministry of Health. PMID: 28436751 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics - Category: Occupational Health Tags: Int J Occup Saf Ergon Source Type: research