The analysis of violence against the nurses who are in employee status in Mugla State Hospital, Turkey

Abstract

Objektive: Workplace violence in the country, especially in the health system remains obscure. The search of the relationship using an intersectional, analytical survey between the working conditions and violence exposure of the nurses who work in Mugla State Hospital was aimed in the study. Materials and methods: Of the 310, 268 nurses participated, yielding a response rate of 86.5%. The data was examined by using Fisher's Exact Test, Pearson Chi-Square Test and Logistic Regression. In result, it was found that 85.8% of the nurses were exposed to violence, with 70.4% of the violence coming from the relatives of patients. Results: 77.2% of the nurses were exposed to verbal abuse while 71.4% were physically assaulted. Unfortunately, 98.4% of the abused did not report the physical abuse. 91.3% of the nurses always felt violence anxiety, while 92.9% of them thought that their instutions do not make an effort for the security systems. According to logistic regression analysis, having worked 21 years and over, night work and having felt a violent encounter in the workplace, significantly increases the frequency of meeting with violence of nurses. Conclusion: In conclusion we found that the nurses were exposed to multiple forms of violence. This was correlated with their monthly average income, marrital status, parental status, work status, night shifts, overtime, rotational shifts, total and daily work hours.