Date of Award

12-10-2021

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Nursing (MScN)

First Advisor

Dr. Tazeen Saeed Ali

Second Advisor

Dr. Uzma Raheem Khan

Third Advisor

Ms. Zohra Jetha

Department

School of Nursing and Midwifery, Pakistan

Abstract

Background: The World Health Organization considered violence as main public health concern in 1996. Since then, efforts have been made to prevent violence in the healthcare sector. In the healthcare sector, the emergency department is the most affected department with regard to physical and verbal violence, as well as bullying. Violence against the healthcare workers not only affects their safety, but also their performance and motivation.
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to assess the prevalence of violence that occurs in the emergency department in a private hospital in Karachi. The objective of this study was to determine the associated determinants of violence against health care personnel in a private hospital, Karachi, Pakistan. Method: The cross sectional study design was used to conduct a study with 182 health care personnel, in the emergency department in a private hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. Data was collected through a questionnaire which had two sections: section one “Demographic Data” and section two to identify the prevalence of violence and bullying among health care personnel. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were computed during data analysis. However, for categorical independent variables (gender, age, years of experience, marital status, profession, and shortage of staff), frequencies and percentages were calculated, whereas, for inferential analysis the binary logistic regression test was used to identified the prevalence and determinants of violence and bullying among health care personnel. In order to achieve the objectives purposive, nonprobability sampling was applied in the study population.
Findings: The results showed that health care personnel in the emergency private hospital reported that they had been violated differently in all forms of violences, such as sexual violence, 5 (2.7 %), physical violence, 30 (16.50 %), verbal violence 107 (58.8%), and bullying 49 (26.9 %). The young male nurses mainly suffered verbal violence (58.8%) from their patients and their relatives, as compared to the other violences and bullying.
Conclusion: This research was an attempt to assist the health care sectors to put one of the World Health Organization's goals, a violence-free health-care environment, into practice. This study also included evidence-based suggestions for the hospital administration and management, based on the above findings, that further research is required to identify the workplace violence among health care personnel from different health care hospitals.

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