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    Workplace Violence against emergency residents and nurses in emergency departments of Tikur Anbessa Specialized hospital and AaBET(Addis Abeba Burn, Emergency ,and Trauma)Hospital.
    (Addis Abeba University, 2018-06) Weldu, Daniel; Zewdu, Tigist( M.D. Emergency Medicine & Critical Care); Kebede, Sofia(M.D. Emergency Medicine & Critical Care)
    Background: Violence is a common day to day occurrence in the Emergency Department, locally as well as globally. It has negative effects on health care workers career, and therefore on the quality of care patient receives; however, it is under studied, and down played problem. Its extent is not equally felt across all stakeholders. Objectives: Explore the incidence, characteristics, associated factors and inciting causes of workplace violence experienced by the Emergency Residents and Nurses and explore the formal reporting of these incidences in TASH and AaBET hospital Adult Medical, surgical and trauma ED in the last 05 months. Methods: Cross sectional Survey study was performed on Emergency physicians and Nurses in Adult Emergency Departments in Tikur Anbessa and AaBET Hospitals. Standardized questionnaire developed by the WHO, which is modified and applied it to the current project, was used to collect data. Results: A total of 181 subjects were studied. Most of them (>70%) were BSc. Nurses. In the last 05 months, 86.75% of health care workers were subjected to violence; and furthermore, 86.6% were subjected to psychological violence and 19.9% to physical violence. For physical violence, being married and more year of experience were found to be victimized by 1.66 times and 5.18 times less likely than living with a partner and a less year of experience. However, for psychological violence, being single was 3.070 times less chance of being attacked psychologically than being married. Overall, relatives were the most common perpetrators. Only 13.9% of the physically attacked and 5.1% of the psychologically attacked have reported their assault; and in only 22.2% of the physical assault and 10.9% of the psychological assault were formal investigation done. More than half of the psychological violence and more than two thirds of the physical violence victims claimed it could have been prevented. The commonest reasons from the ED related reasons for the attack were overcrowding, inadequate security and negative media coverage. Conclusion: Violence was shown to be a rampant event in the ED and underreporting makes it undermined. However, it is shown to be preventable. Recommendation: Preventive strategies should be thoroughly sought and applied.