Prevalence, forms and consequence of violence against health professionals in Amanuel mental specialized hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2017
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2018-01
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Addis Ababa University
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BACKGROUND
Workplace violence (WPV) is defined as physically and psychologically damaging actions that professionals face in the workplace or while on duty. Violent behavior caused by people with mental illness regularly leads to involuntarily admission to a psychiatric ward, to avoid the risk of serious harm to others. However, this risk may remain during hospitalization, resulting in violent incidents in clinical practice. Revealing the prevalence, nature and consequences of violence in psychiatry is a necessary step to instigate the development of useful interventions, policies and guidelines to protect mental health workers from violent incidents
OBJECTIVE;
To describe the prevalence, forms and consequences of violence against health professionals in Amanuel specialized mental hospital, Addis Ababa
METHODS;
A hospital based descriptive survey done in AMSH among professionals using a questionnaire developed from the research instrument for workplace violence in the health sector by ILO/ICN/WHO/PSI, adopted in a way suitable for this study and translated into Amharic. The data sheets were coded and data entry, cleaning and analysis was done using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20, bivariate and Multivariate logistic regression was done to see sociodemographic determinants of workplace violence.
RESULT
One hundred eighty one participants were involved in this study among whom 95(52.8%) were females and majority 80 (44.4%) of the participants were 25-29 years of age 108 (59.7%) has less than 5 years of work experience. Around 30% were clinical nurses and 4(2.2%) psychiatrists. Over two third of participants 140 (77.3%) had been victim of one form of violence or another in their workplace.The risk of being a victim is not associated with any of the socio-demographic characteristics.Most of the victims of workplace violence, 112(80%), have experienced verbal violence
CONCLUSION;
This study makes clear that the amount of violence with which health professionals have to cope is a substantial and sever problem. To develop effective strategies of violent event managementit is important to favor incident reporting by staff for all violent episodes, from verbal offenses or threats to dangerous physical attacks.BACKGROUND
Workplace violence (WPV) is defined as physically and psychologically damaging actions that professionals face in the workplace or while on duty. Violent behavior caused by people with mental illness regularly leads to involuntarily admission to a psychiatric ward, to avoid the risk of serious harm to others. However, this risk may remain during hospitalization, resulting in violent incidents in clinical practice. Revealing the prevalence, nature and consequences of violence in psychiatry is a necessary step to instigate the development of useful interventions, policies and guidelines to protect mental health workers from violent incidents
OBJECTIVE;
To describe the prevalence, forms and consequences of violence against health professionals in Amanuel specialized mental hospital, Addis Ababa
METHODS;
A hospital based descriptive survey done in AMSH among professionals using a questionnaire developed from the research instrument for workplace violence in the health sector by ILO/ICN/WHO/PSI, adopted in a way suitable for this study and translated into Amharic. The data sheets were coded and data entry, cleaning and analysis was done using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20, bivariate and Multivariate logistic regression was done to see sociodemographic determinants of workplace violence.
RESULT
One hundred eighty one participants were involved in this study among whom 95(52.8%) were females and majority 80 (44.4%) of the participants were 25-29 years of age 108 (59.7%) has less than 5 years of work experience. Around 30% were clinical nurses and 4(2.2%) psychiatrists. Over two third of participants 140 (77.3%) had been victim of one form of violence or another in their workplace.The risk of being a victim is not associated with any of the socio-demographic characteristics.Most of the victims of workplace violence, 112(80%), have experienced verbal violence
CONCLUSION;
This study makes clear that the amount of violence with which health professionals have to cope is a substantial and sever problem. To develop effective strategies of violent event managementit is important to favor incident reporting by staff for all violent episodes, from verbal offenses or threats to dangerous physical attacks.
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physically,psychologically, damaging actions