The Exploding Spark: Workplace Violence in an Infectious Disease Hospital—A Longitudinal Study

Table 2

Association of psychosocial variables measured in 2003 with violence occurring in the following year. Logistic regression analysis, Odds ratios (ORs), and 95% CIs (unadjusted and adjusted for age, gender, and job).

Variable	Physical aggression (𝑁=39)	Verbal aggression (𝑁=87)
Demand
Un.	1.25 (1.09–1.42)***	1.28 (1.16–1.41)***
Ad.^a	1.26 (1.09–1.46)**	1.28 (1.15–1.42)***
Control
Un.	1.05 (0.95–1.17)	0.94 (0.87–1.00)
Ad.^a	0.96 (0.85–1.08)	0.84 (0.77–0.91)***
Support
Un.	0.94 (0.85–1.02)	0.91 (0.85–0.97)**
Ad.^a	0.91 (0.82–1.01)	0.89 (0.83–0.96)**
Job strain
Un.	1.71 (0.70–4.18)	3.67 (1.99–6.76)***
Ad.^a	4.19 (1.38–12.7)*	9.85 (4.52–21.47)***
Anxiety
Un.	0.95 (0.83–1.08)	1.05 (0.97–1.14)
Ad.^a	1.00 (0.87–1.15)	1.11 (1.01–1.22)*
Depression
Un.	1.08 (0.92–1.28)	1.10 (0.98–1.24)
Ad.^a	1.20 (1.01–1.44)*	1.19 (1.05–1.35)**
Final model^b
Job strain	3.25 (0.97–10.95)	7.72 (3.33–17.86)***
Nagelkerke 𝑅^2; (explained variance)	0.17	0.23

^∗𝑃<0.05; **𝑃<0.01; ***𝑃<0.001.
^aAdjusted for age, gender, and job.
^bAdjusted for social support, anxiety, depression, age, gender, and job.