Descriptive statistics were used for data analysis, including counts, percentages, and tabulation. Qualitative data analysis followed thematic synthesis techniques. Three main findings are noted. First, violent incidents against nurses are under-reported due to fear of victimization, e...
This article focuses on policy and law concerning violence against women as a public health issue. In Sweden, violence against women is recently recognized as a public health problem; we label this shift “The public health turn on violence against women
Nurses are one of the professional groups highly vulnerable to workplace violence. This study was conducted to assess the prevalence and form of workplace violence against Professional Nurses. Institution-based cross-sectional study design was used to study 385 nurses working at the University of Gon...
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Preliminary recruitment of informants took place through midwives and child nurses working at the midwife-led clinic. The mothers were asked if they would be interested in being contacted to participate in the study after receiving spoken and written information about the purpose of the study. The...
The shots of Solar struggling against her male assailant (I was unfortunate enough to see the original MV before the edits) is in the same vein of Sailor Moon getting tied up and Barbara Gordon, aka Batgirl, falling victim to the Joker in The Killing Joke — it’s a form of misogyny ...
On average, nurses were exposed to workplace violence a few times a year; reported high levels of emotional exhaustion; experienced musculoskeletal injuries and anxiety disorders once a month and sleep disturbances a few times a month. Table 1. Descriptive statistics of sample demographics and key ...
Bearing in mind that they severely underestimate the prevalence of workplace violence involving nurses, the few available statistics can do no more than hint at the scope of the problem, but they do suggest that violence is increasing rather than decreasing. BLS keeps statistics on the number of...
The Cochrane Q and I2 test statistics were used to verify the heterogeneity of the studies. Using a random effect model, the pooled estimate of workplace violence among nurses was calculated.#The pooled estimate of workplace violence among nurses in Ethiopia was 39.43% (95% CI: 27.63, ...
This is supporting the very notion of violence against nurses is a universal issue despite the widening perception of violence as an innate part of work. Level of concern about violence, working in the emergency or inpatient department, verbal abuse, and physical violence have a positive ...