Risk Assessment of Workplace Violence Against Nurses: How Data Collection Methods Influence Results—A Swedish and Italian Cross-Sectional Study.
Background/Objectives: Workplace violence (WV) against healthcare workers (HCWs) is a major hazard all over the world. Prevention requires a reliable risk assessment. The rate of HCWs reporting a violent event varies considerably across multi-year retrospective studies compared to periodic surveys....
| Publicado en: | Nursing Reports Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 7 - 31 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=191217471&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 191217471 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 2039439X EGNT jtl: Nursing Reports issn: 2039439X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jan2026 vid: 16 iid: 1 pid: 97109 pub: MDPI artinfo: ui: 191217471 191217471 191217471 10.3390/nursrep16010007 191217471 ppf: 7 ppct: 24 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Risk Assessment of Workplace Violence Against Nurses: How Data Collection Methods Influence Results—A Swedish and Italian Cross-Sectional Study. aug: au: Magnavita, Nicola Olsson-Tall, Maivor Franzoni, Sergio Isolani, Lucia affil: Department of Safety and Bioethics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo Francesco Vito 1, 00168 Roma, Italy sug: subj: Nurses Psychosocial Factors Nurses Psychosocial Factors Workplace Violence Risk Assessment Human Male Female Adult Middle Age Italy Sweden Cross Sectional Studies Nonexperimental Studies Comparative Studies Questionnaires Chi Square Test Fisher's Exact Test Analysis of Variance Post Hoc Analysis Pearson's Correlation Coefficient Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient Multiple Logistic Regression Multiple Linear Regression Descriptive Statistics Data Analysis Software Odds Ratio Confidence Intervals Age Factors Prevalence Checklists Sex Factors Assault and Battery Professional Competence Stress, Occupational Work Capacity Evaluation Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Male Female ab: Background/Objectives: Workplace violence (WV) against healthcare workers (HCWs) is a major hazard all over the world. Prevention requires a reliable risk assessment. The rate of HCWs reporting a violent event varies considerably across multi-year retrospective studies compared to periodic surveys. We conducted a rapid observational study to demonstrate that data collection methods are more important than socio-cultural and healthcare organizational differences in determining the frequency of reported violence. Methods: In June 2025, in a cross-sectional observational comparison, we examined a total of 236 nurses divided into three groups: the first two were recruited online from Brescia (Italy) and Trollhättan (Sweden), while the third group was composed of Latium (Italy) nurses participating in a sleep health promotion program who answered the same questions on WV online. All the workers reported the frequency of violent incidents experienced in the previous 12 months using the Violent Incident Form (VIF), occupational stress using the Effort/Reward Imbalance questionnaire (ERI), and work ability via the Work Ability Score (WAS). Results: In the three samples, WV was correlated positively with stress and inversely with work ability (p < 0.01), while no significant difference was found between Italian and Swedish nurses in relation to the spot surveys. The nurses questioned directly about WV were significantly younger and reported significantly higher rates of physical aggression (28% vs. 5%, p < 0.001) and all forms of violence (73% vs. 20%, p < 0.001) than those questioned indirectly during the census of all the HCWs. In a multivariate linear regression model, the WV experienced and poor work ability were highly significant predictors of work-related stress (p < 0.001). Nurses who had experienced WV in the previous year had an increased odds ratio (OR = 8.94; Confidence Interval 95% = 4.43; 18.01) of reporting a state of distress. Conclusions: Experience has shown that specific questioning about violence—the commonest method used—encourages respondents to report violent events and may induce overreporting. This method also tends to involve younger workers who are more exposed to WV. On the other hand, prospective studies based on official reports may be influenced by underreporting. Monitoring WV during health promotion interventions included in occupational health surveillance could minimize both phenomena. Systematic studies and meta-analyses which rely mainly on "ad hoc" studies may be biased. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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