ESTÜDAM Halk Sağlığı Dergisi
Yazarlar: Mehmet UYAR, Elif Nur YILDIRIM ÖZTÜRK, Tahir Kemal ŞAHİN
Konular:Halk ve Çevre Sağlığı
DOI:10.35232/estudamhsd.648576
Anahtar Kelimeler:Health worker,Violence,Family health center,Public health
Özet: Violence against physicians and healthcare workers has been increasing in recent years and violence is an important problem for every sector. In this study, we aimed to determine the knowledge of violence types, lifelong violence exposure rates and perspectives of violence against healthcare workers among adults aged 18 years and older. We designed a cross-sectional study. We obtained permission from the local ethics committee for the study. We conducted the study in 5 family health centers in Meram district of Konya. We determined the sample size of the study to be 326. Between the dates of 1-30 November 2018, we included 344 people who gave oral consent to participate in the study and applied to designated family health centers for any reason. For the research, we developed a data collection form consisting of 28 questions and 2 basic sections. We applied the data collection form to the participants by face-to-face interview method. We transferred the data we obtained to computer and analyzed it. It was used arithmetic mean, standard deviation, minimum and maximum values in the summary of numerical data, and frequency distributions and percentages in the summary of categorical data. The relationships between the categorical data were analysed with the Chi-square test and considered statistically significant when p was less than 0.05. The mean age of the 344 participants were 38.92 ± 13.78 (Min: 18, Max = 80). 57% of the participants were women and 63,8% were married. 97% of the respondents thought that violence was more frequent in the state health institutions. Respectively 62,3% and 73,7% of the respondents stated that the most frequent violence was experienced by female gender and by doctors. The percentage of those who thought that the most frequent type of violence experienced by health workers was verbal violence was 64,5% (n=220). 37,1% (n=125) of the participants were of the opinion that health workers who suffered violence deserved it. 2,9% (n=10) of the respondents used violence against health care workers for any reason. Smoking, alcohol, prescription drugs users and those living alone thought that health workers deserved violence at higher rates (p<0,05). As a result of the study, we found that the participants thought that the exposure to violence was higher in state-owned health institutions, female gender and doctors. More than one-third of the participants were of the opinion that health workers deserve violence.