Cognitive questionnaire on violence and assistance in diabetology. The experiences of diabetes community AMD and gender differences

Abstract

The Gender medicine strategic group of AMD promoted an online survey in summer 2022 in order to know the size of violence in the workplace in the diabetologist community and this phenomenon can be correlated to lacks of Risk Assessment in the workplaces. We asked 20 questions about any experiences of violence suffered in the workplaces. The partecipants were 137, mainly women (71,5%). The most representative age range is 45 - 60 years (43,1%). About half of the respondents (46%) regardless of genders had been subjected of some form of violence during the exercise of profession, more often in surgeries daily, mainly by male patients, while women are mainly exposed to the risk of both verbal and physical violence. Among the subjects who have suffered experience of violence, in 74,6% of cases the phenomenon was repeated. Probably this data cannot exclude that some health workers due to personal characteristics or context are more often the target of this phenomenon, especially since health services and or companies do not provide readily available and effective strategies for rescue and or escape. It is a low propensity to report the violence and the lack of standardized procedures for the report management. Establishing a violence prevention program must the business goal aimed at guaranteeing safety in the workplace. KEY WORDS violence in the workplace; diabetology; age; gender; violence prevention program.