Perceptions and Prevalence of Workplace Violence in Healthcare

Methodist Health System

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Violence

Treatments: Other: No intervention.

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05796323

009.NUR.2022.A

Details and patient eligibility

About

Workplace violence includes physical and verbal aggression as well as threatening behavior. All types of workplace violence incidents in health care are often under-reported, especially if there is no lasting physical injury.

Full description

Research reveals that healthcare workers are three times more likely to experience workplace violence than any other occupation. The first step toward reducing the occurrence of violence is to understand the perceptions and prevalence of workplace violence.

Enrollment: 3,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants must be employed full-time, part-time, or per diem

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to read English will cause a staff member to be excluded from the study, as the survey is written in English.

Trial design

3,000 participants in 1 patient group

Methodist Health System Employees

Description:

All MHS employees, clinical and non-clinical.

Treatment:

Other: No intervention.