Abstract
The study aimed to develop and evaluate a violence prevention program for nursing students to improve communication self-efficacy, problem-focused coping style, emotion-focused coping style, and the ability to cope with violence. Using an eight-session violence prevention program, the study was designed as quasi experimental, with a pretest, posttest, and follow-up assessment with a nonequivalent control group. Nursing students from the fourth year of a university were selected as participants; 22 students were assigned to the experimental group and 23 to the control group. Data analysis included Chi-square, Fisher’s exact test, Levene’s Test, Mann–Whitney U-test, and repeated measures ANOVA. Results showed that the experimental group showed significantly higher posttest scores for the problem-focused coping style (F = 20.77, p < 0.001), intra-individual and interaction effects for the emotion-focused coping style (F = 12.03, p < 0.001), and the ability to cope with violence (U = 70, p < 0.001) than the control group. Thus, the workplace violence prevention program was effective for nursing students.
Highlights
The experimental group participating in a violence prevention program scores higher in observational evaluation of the ability to cope with violence than the control group
The observational assessment was used to test Hypothesis 4—the experimental group participating in a violence prevention program scores higher in observational evaluation of the ability to cope with violence than the control group
This study aimed to determine the effects of a violence prevention program on communication This study aimed to determine the effects of a violence prevention program on communication self-efficacy, problem-focused and emotion-focused coping styles, and the ability to cope with violence self-efficacy, problem-focused and emotion-focused coping styles, and the ability to cope with violence in nursing students
Summary
Many types of workplace violence occur in the healthcare field [1,2,3], including physical violence, injury, blackmail, insult, defamation, interference with work, and indecent assault [4,5]. In the USA, surveys of 3765 registered nurses highlighted the prevalence of workplace violence among nurses, that 21% registered nurses and nursing students reported being physically assaulted in a 12-month period, and that more than half of the nurses and nursing students were verbally insulted [13,14]. The majority of nursing students at clinical training sites experienced diverse types of violence, including from patients, caregivers, nurses, doctors, and hospital employees. They experienced violence in emergency rooms, general wards, psychiatric wards, and intensive care units; as many as
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