Workplace Violence: A Survey of Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Services Professionals

Table 1

Descriptive statistics for EMT demographic and workforce safety questions.

	Percent
Level of EMT practice ( = 1,660)
NREMT-basic	67.0%
NREMT-paramedic	33.0%
EMT gender ( = 1,646)
Male	64.4%
Female	35.6%
EMT marital status ( = 1,591)
Married or cohabiting	71.3%
Divorced or separated	25.3%
Never married/widowed	3.4%
EMT years of experience ( = 1,439)
<5 years	56.8%
5–10 years	22.2%
>10 years	21.0%
Community size ( = 1,563)
Urban (>150,000)	22.1%
Other (≤149,999)	77.9%
Type of EMS work ( = 1,575)
All emergency	51.8%
Not all emergency	48.2%
Type of service ( = 1,389)
Fire-based	38.6%
Non-fire-based	61.4%
Adequately trained to restrain a violent patient ( = 1,628)
Yes	49.6%
No	50.4%
Service has an EAP ( = 1,621)
Yes	15.6%
No	71.3%
Do not know	13.1%
Service provides body armor ( = 1,622)
Yes	75.5%
No	9.5%
Do not know	15.0%
EMT wear body armor ( = 1,625)
Yes	92.5%
No	7.5%
How often body armor is used ( = 1,625)
Always	2.1%
Usually	0.9%
Sometimes	3.6%
Rarely	5.9%
Never	87.5%
Ease of getting police assistance ( = 1,618)
Very easy	43.4%
Easy	42.8%
Somewhat difficult	11.3%
Difficult	1.5%
Very difficult	1.0%