A Cross-Sectional Multicenter Study of Workplace Violence against Prehospital Emergency Medical Technicians

Table 1

Factors affecting occupational violence from the perspective of PEMTs.

Associated factors		%
Drug abuse	4	1.9
Patient’s death	12	5.8
Lack of awareness of people about the duties of emergency medical personnel	111	53.9
Delay in arriving at the accident site	14	6.8
The lack of retraining programs for personnel in the field of violence management	8	3.9
Shortage in ambulance personnel	56	27.2
Shortage of security equipment	1	0.5