Abstract
Workplace violence is any act of negative behavior that causes, physically and psychologically harm to health professionals face in the workplace. The prevalence of workplace violence becomes a challenging occupational issue with increasing nature worldwide. In spite of the seriousness and the impact of the problem, little is known about its magnitude and determinants in the study area and even in Ethiopia. The study aimed to assess the magnitude of workplace violence and its associated factors among health care providers working for the last one year at Obstetrics and gynecology department in Amhara Regional State Referral Hospitals, Ethiopia 2019. Institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted from October 1st to 30th, 2019. 503 study participants were incorporated in the study. A pre-tested structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. Data were entered into EPI info version 7.2.3.1 and analyzed using SPSS version 23. Binary Logistic regression model was fitted to identify factors associated with workplace violence considering the association to be significant p- value <0.05. This study revealed that 44.5%of the health care providers had reported workplace violence (95% CI: 40.2-48.7). Of this majority of the Victims were experienced a verbal type of violence 200 (88.1%), followed by physical 14 (6.2%), sexual 11 (4.8%), and racial two (0.8%). Factors of workplace violence in this research with statically significant, were: working in labor ward (AOR = 7.4,95% CI: 2.9-18.7), Female sex of participant (AOR = 2.4, 95% CI:1.4-4), work experience less than 5 years(AOR 8.5, 95%CI:7.3-33.3) and numbers of staff less than5 in a shift (AOR = 5.3 95% CI:3.8-39.8) and 5-10 staff in a shift (AOR = 3.3, 95% CI:2.7-25). The prevalence of workplace violence among obstetrics and gynecology department health professionals in Amhara regional state referral hospitals was high. Developing an incident resolution protocol and legislations to encourage health professionals to prompt report violent acts and judicial punishment of perpetrators will be useful to combat workplace violence at obstetrics and gynecology department.
Highlights
Workplace violence (WPV) is defined as any form of negative behavior that causes physical and psychological harm to health professionals at workplace
This study revealed that 44.5%of the health care providers had reported workplace violence
This study was higher than domestic studies that were done in Amhara regional state referral hospitals workplace violence among nurses 4 years ago and a study done at Hawasa city administration health facilities 26.7% and 29.9% [10, 11]
Summary
Workplace violence (WPV) is defined as any form of negative behavior that causes physical and psychological harm to health professionals at workplace. It includes direct physical assaults, written or verbal threats, physical or verbal harassment, which involves an explicit or implicit obstacle to the safety, well-being of health care workers. As works of literature showed, workplace violence in health care settings becomes a major problem and challenging occupational issue with increasing nature. Workplace violence is any act of negative behavior that causes, physically and psychologically harm to health professionals face in the workplace. The prevalence of workplace violence becomes a challenging occupational issue with increasing nature worldwide. In spite of the seriousness and the impact of the problem, little is known about its magnitude and determinants in the study area and even in Ethiopia
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