Violence Against Iraqi Doctors: A Sample from the Baghdad City
This study aimed to investigate the enormity and nature of violence directed against Iraqi doctors as well as to determine doctors' experiences in dealing with post-violence exposure and their plans to leave country for good. In this cross-sectional study, 397-medical staff surveyed online using reproducible, validated, and piloted questionnaire over a period of four weeks. Chi-square test used to assess the association between the typology of doctors'-violence exposure and their socio-demographic and workplace characteristics. Verbal-violence is the dominant-type experienced by Iraqi physicians (84.1%) followed by threats...
Source: Medicine, Conflict and Survival - August 7, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nawar Sahib Khalil Reem Ali Haddad Ruqaya Subhi Tawfeeq Jalil Ibrahim Salih Dhafer Basheer Al-Yuzbaki Source Type: research
