Abstract
Verbal abuse is the act of forcefully criticizing, insulting or denouncing another person. Verbal abuse can be devastating to doctors and may cause long lasting emotional and psychological damage. This study aims to find the prevalence of verbal abuse among doctors in tertiary care hospital. This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among doctors in a tertiary care hospitals, Chitwan from January to July, 2019 after taking ethical approval. Convenience sampling was done. Self administered questionnaire was distributed and data was collected. Point estimate at 95% CI was done for binary data along with frequency and proportion. Data were entered and calculations were done in Microsoft excel. Verbal abuse was found among 80 (33.3%) respondents at 95% Confidence Interval (27.51- 39.09%) and most 51 (63.8%) of perpetrators were relatives of the patients. Most 38 (47.5%) of the doctors were often worried in workplace. Incident of the verbal abuse was more 35 (43.6%) in morning and least 14 (17.4%) in night. Most 22 (27.5%) of the doctors did not take any action for incident although most 42 (52.5 %) of the doctors were encouraged by colleagues to take action. Prevalence of verbral abuse among the doctors were found out to be similar as the previous studies conducted in similar settings. This study has shown that doctors were frequently verbal abused by patient's relatives and were abused mostly in morning shift and were often worried in workplace.
Highlights
Verbal abuse is the act of forcefully criticizing, insulting or denouncing another person
The present study aims to find the prevalence of verbal abuse among doctors in a tertiary care hospital
42 (52.5%) respondents were encouraged by colleague to take actions for the verbal abuse but 22 (27.5%) respondents did not take any actions (Table 1)
Summary
Verbal abuse is the act of forcefully criticizing, insulting or denouncing another person. Verbal abuse can be devastating to doctors and may cause long lasting emotional and psychological damage. This study aims to find the prevalence of verbal abuse among doctors in tertiary care hospital. Verbal abuse has been known as a significant issue Verbal abuse against doctors can affect the work performance and productivity in hospital. Violence against doctors is increasing in Nepal and will continue to surge until the effective measures to improve healthcare in our country.[3]. This issue is under researched and little evidence exists so the researcher interest to do study on this research problem. The present study aims to find the prevalence of verbal abuse among doctors in a tertiary care hospital Low self-esteem and self-destructive aggression are main symptoms in health care professions.[5]
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