The Exploding Spark: Workplace Violence in an Infectious Disease Hospital—A Longitudinal Study
Table 1
Characteristics of the observed sample.
2003
2005
Number of workers
627
Male workers (%)
268 (42.7)
Female workers (%)
359 (57.3)
Age, mean ± SD (years)
Length of service, mean ± SD (years)
Physicians (%)
79 (12.6)
Nurses (%)
335 (53.4)
Other(1) (%)
213 (34.0)
Work-related stress variables
Demand, range 5–20 (mean ± SD) (s.e.)
(0.11)
(0.11)
0.043*
Control, range 6–24 (mean ± SD) (s.e.)
(0.13)
(0.12)
0.019*
Support, range 6–24 (mean ± SD) (s.e.)
(0.13)
(0.13)
0.534 (n.s.)
Job strain (D/C rate) (mean ± SD) (s.e.)
(0.01)
(0.01)
0.973 (n.s.)
Effort, range 6–30 (mean ± SD)
Reward, range 11–55 (mean ± SD)
Overcommitment, range 6–24 (mean ± SD)
ERI (E/R rate)
Anxiety range 0–9 (mean ± SD)
0.000***
Depression range 0–9 (mean ± SD)
0.000***
Anxious, score 6 or more (; %)
142 (22.6)
189 (30.1)
Depressed, score 4 or more (; %)
108 (17.2)
136 (21.7)
Cases of violence in 2004-2005
Physical aggression (; %)
Verbal aggression (; %)
39 (6.2)
87 (13.9)
Physicians (prevalence)
15 (19.0)
27 (34.2)
Nurses (prevalence)
20 (6.0)
51 (15.2)
Other(1) (prevalence)
4 (1.9)
9 (4.2)
0.000***
0.000***
This category includes laboratory technicians, radiology technicians, physiotherapists, ancillary personnel, blue-collar workers, and clerks.
(2)The Wilcoxon signed-rank test; (3): Chi-square test; *significant at ; significant at ; ***significant at ; (n.s.): not significant.