Research Article
Monthly Incidence Rates of Abusive Encounters for Canadian Family Physicians by Patients and Their Families
Table 4
Characteristic of the abuser and the abusive event.
| | Characteristics of abuser/abuse | Patient perpetrator % | Family member perpetrator % |
| | Gender | | | | Male | 56.0% | 33.7% | | Female | 44.0% | 66.3% | | Abuser was intoxicated | | | | Yes | 18.8% | 4.8% | | No | 81.2% | 95.2% | | Abuser victimized before | | | | Yes | 35.6% | 14.5% | | No | 64.4% | 85.5% | | Abuser mentally ill | | | | Yes | 35.6% | NA | | No | 64.4% | NA | | Abuse occurred in the | | | | Morning | 26.2% | 22.2% | | Afternoon | 42.1% | 53.1% | | Evening | 22.4% | 24.7% | | Night | 9.3% | 0.0% | | Abuse was conducted | | | | Face to face | 90.8% | 77.1% | | By telephone | 7.0% | 20.5% | | Through email | 1.1% | 2.4% | | Through mail | 1.1% | 0.0% |
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